Jack helped her advance her career and took his advice. Garbo was very sociable during this time and the entertained all the time, especially Sunday afternoons.

Jack proposed many times, but Garbo never would say yes, until one time, when King Vidor and Eleanor Boardman were going to be married, Garbo got sentimental and said yes to a double ceremony. The wedding approached, but on the day of the wedding, Garbo took off and never showed up. At the wedding, occurred another event which fed the Gilbert/Mayer feud. When Garbo was late, Jack was very nervous and Mayer patted him on the back and said" What's the matter with you? What do you have to marry her for? Why don't you just F..k her and forget about it?" Jack went mad and grabbed Mayer by the throat and threw him on the bathroom floor. Mayer's aide, Eddie Mannix pulled them apart. Mayer shouted, Your finished, Gilbert! I'll destroy you if it costs me a million dollars!"

After this, Gilbert told Garbo that she would have to move out of his house or pay rent. She stayed on until he married hit next wife, Ina Clair and never paid a cent.

They made two more films together, Love, a version of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and A Woman of Affairs. They attempted marriage again, but Garbo always backed out. She continued to live with him on and off. They fought, made up and then broke up again over and over.

Jack would always say complimentary things about Garbo, but she on the other hand seemed to enjoy confusing everyone about her feelings, by claiming sometime that they were just friends and others that she loved him dearly.

It's believe that although Jack had two more wives after his affair with Garbo that he continued to be in love with her. I believe Garbo loved him too because she was instrumental in trying to help Jack get through the transition to sound by insisting, that he play opposite her in Queen Christina, Jack's last truly good picture.

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