Born Grethe Karen Thygesen on 30 March 1927, she decamped for Hollywood not long after winning the Miss Denmark title in 1952 as a brunette. Emulating the then hot sex symbols Monroe and Mansfield, she bleached her hair blonde and changed her name to Greta Thyssen. She was deported for violating her visitor's permit, but some managed to keep working and stay in the States. In her first film, she was a double for Monroe in BUS STOP (1956). She also replaced blonde bombshell June Wilkinson in a Broadway play.
Thyssen is probably best known for her roles in a number of THREE STOOGES shorts, and was the recipient of the famous gag of a cream pie-in-the-face. She also had a stint as a "Pirate Girl" on the game show, TREASURE HUNT.
The voluptuous Miss Thyssen landed roles in two genre films, TERROR IS A MAN (1959) and JOURNEY TO THE 7TH PLANET (1962), but this was all after she appeared semi-nude here in a racy pictorial from the men's magazine, Jem (Vol. 1 No. 4, May 1957).
After retiring from films, Miss Thyssen turned to her love of painting. Here are a few examples that have been sold in various auctions over the years.
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