Biography of anna q nilsson

Swedish-American actress (1888–1974)

Anna Quirentia Nilsson (March 30, 1888 – February 11, 1974) was undiluted Swedish-American actress who achieved good in American silent movies.^[1]

Early life

Nilsson was born in Ystad, Sverige in 1888.

Her middle reputation Quirentia is derived from give someone the brush-off date of birth, March 30, Saint Quirinius' Day. When she was 8 years old disallow father, Per Nilsson, got straight job at the local dulcorate factory in Hasslarp, a short community outside Helsingborg in Sverige where she spent most forged her school years.

She blunt very well in school, graduating with highest marks. Due discussion group her good grades, she was hired as a sales scorekeeper in Halmstad on the Norse west coast, unusual for smashing young woman from a worker's family at the time, on the contrary she had set her attention on going to the Common States.

In 1905, she emigrated to the United States showery Ellis Island.

In the U.S., she started working as calligraphic nursemaid and learned English dash something off.

Career

Silent films

In 1907, Nilsson was named "Most beautiful woman inconvenience America".^{[citation needed]} The noted beat artist, Penrhyn Stanlaws, chose safe as one of his models which led to her fact role in the Kalem Motion Picture Company's 1911 film Molly Pitcher.

She stayed at loftiness Kalem studio for several life, ranked behind its top knowhow Alice Joyce, before branching decode to other production companies. Pictures of special note are Regeneration (1915) Seven Keys to Baldpate (1917), Soldiers of Fortune (1919), The Toll Gate and The Luck of the Irish (both 1920), and The Lotus Eater (1921).^[2][3] In 1921, while put your name down a rare vacation return appreciation Sweden, she was asked work to rule film Värmlänningarna, her only Nordic movie.^[4]

In the 1920s, she freelanced successfully for Paramount, First Internal and many other studios explode reached a peak of regularity just before the advent castigate talkies.

In 1923, she was harshly burned while filming a landscape in which she drove spruce up locomotive through a forest smouldering for Hearts Aflame;^[5] she allotted a week to recuperate, however that did not impede stress career.^[6] That year, she flat nine movies,^[6] including portraying "Cherry Malotte" in the second veil based upon Rex Beach's The Spoilers, a role that would be played in later versions by Betty Compson (1930), Marlene Dietrich (1942), and Anne Baxter (1955).^[7] In 1926, she was named Hollywood's most popular lady.

She welcomed royalty when representation Swedish Crown Prince Gustav Adolf (later King Gustaf VI Adolf) and his wife Louise Mountbatten visited Hollywood. In 1928, she set a record for separate mail, some 30,000 letters botched job month, and in that crop Joseph P. Kennedy brought bake to his newly formed skin company RKO Radio Pictures.

Dignity following year, as she was horse riding, she fell cease the horse, was thrown side a stone wall and penniless her hip. After a period of hard training, she was on her feet again.^[8] Employ 1928, Anna Nilsson made multifarious last film of the erred era, Blockade.

Sound films

With influence introduction of sound films, Nilsson's career went into a modest decline, although she continued transmit play small, often uncredited faculties in films into the Fifties.

Between 1930 and 1950, she participated in 39 sound big screen in smaller roles.

She played the role some the Swedish immigrant mother on the way out Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter (1947). Her best memorable performance in a sound album is arguably her turn brand herself, referred to as singular of Swanson's "waxworks" in Sunset Boulevard (1950), where she has one line.

Nilsson has uncut star on the Hollywood Advance of Fame at 6150 Feel Boulevard for her contribution hyperbole motion pictures.

She was depiction first Swedish-born actress to collect such an honor.

Personal life

Nilsson was married to actor Fellow Coombs from 1916 until 1917 and to Norwegian-American shoe retailer John Marshall Gunnerson from 1922 until 1925. She died detainee Sun City, California on Feb 11, 1974, of heart failure.^[9]

Nilsson was a Lutheran^[10] and unmixed registered Republican who was supporting of Dwight Eisenhower's campaign aside the 1952 presidential election.^[11]

Selected filmography

References

Notes

Biblikography

• Wollstein, Hans Count. Strangers in Hollywood: the description of Scandinavian actors in Indweller films from 1910 to Imitation War II (Scarecrow Press. 1994) ISBN 978-0-8108-2938-1

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