[4] Granstedt first gained notoriety and widespread media attention in April 1922 after she shot her 17-year-old boyfriend, Harold Galloway, with a pistol she borrowed from a friend.

I started home and I met a boy friend who offered to give me a lift.

[5]Although newspapers originally printed this version of things, they soon switched to a more tantalizing view, claiming Granstedt hid in the shadows with the gun, waiting to shoot Galloway as revenge for him attending the Parish dance with another girl.

The aunt believed Granstedt shot Galloway to keep him from entering into the navy and thus leaving her.

It was originally believed Galloway would die when peritonitis developed in the wound,[8] however his condition greatly improved within days.

[9] Granstedt was brought to trial in juvenile court on June 30, 1922[10] where she was sentenced to time in a reform school and was banished from Mountain View.

[11][12] Greta left Mountain View as a young woman and spent the next several years in San Francisco.

Among other ways of making a living, she modeled at San Francisco Art Association in the summer of 1926.

Bessie met Glen Hyde on that trip, falling in love and sealing her fate as a lost river runner.

By the mid-1920s, Greta had appeared opposite Joseph Schildkraut in a Los Angeles production of From Hell Came a Lady.

[15] While in New York City, Greta appeared in three Broadway plays, the short-lived Tomorrow's Harvest (four performances, opened December 4, 1934 at the 49th St. Theatre), and the longer-running If a Body (45 performances, opening April 30, 1935 at the Biltmore Theatre).

[16] She returned to Hollywood for perhaps her best-remembered role, that of Anna Wahl, playing opposite Alan Ladd as the only female in an underground resistance cell in Hitler, Beast of Berlin (1939).

She appeared in the comedy There Goes My Heart as Thulda, the Swedish maid who comes to New York to visit her uncle Björn Björnsson.

During the 1960s, she appeared in television shows, including Perry Mason, Peter Gunn, The Millionaire, Lassie and Dragnet.

Her third marriage, to Ramon Ramos, in 1933, was celebrated by the one year, one term Mayor of New York, John P. O'Brien.

[citation needed] Her fifth husband was Max de Vega, a matte painter [18] Matte painting is a motion picture special effects technique involving the painting of movie backgrounds on glass.

It was with de Vega that Granstedt had a house designed for her by the California Architect Harwell Harris.

The marriage was annulled, when Wright, like de Vega proved to still be married to another woman.