Anna Q. Nilsson

Anna Quirentia Nilsson (born March 30, 1888 in Ystad , Sweden , † February 11, 1974 in Hemet , California , USA ) was a Swedish actress who was a film star in Hollywood during the silent film era .

Life

Anna Q. Nilsson was born in Sweden in 1888. After her first experiences on the Swedish stage , she emigrated to the United States in 1910. There she first worked as a nanny and later as a photo model . She was the model for posters, including for Penrhyn Stanlaws . After one such illustration was published, she was offered a role in the film Molly Pitcher . Nilsson accepted and became a star overnight. Her career took off, she worked successfully for FBO , Paramount Pictures , MGM and Warner Brothers . Films like Seven Keys to Baldpate (1917), Soldiers of Fortune (1919), The Toll Gate and The Luck of the Irish (both 1920) as well as The Lotus Eater (1921) achieved great success.

In 1925, at the height of her career, shortly before the appearance of the talkie , Nilsson fell from his horse while riding and fell so unhappily that she was paralyzed . She had to take a break for two years and learn to walk again. From 1927 she worked on her comeback and made several films a year, including The Babe Comes Home with baseball legend Babe Ruth . With the increasing popularity of the sound film, she withdrew more and more from the film business; the Swedish accent and her increasing age became a problem. For two decades she was almost entirely devoted to charity. She only returned to the screen for very small roles (often unnamed), for example in Vincente Minnelli's 1951 An American in Paris . Her best-known role in the sound film era is a cameo (with Buster Keaton and HB Warner ) as a card player in Billy Wilder's drama Twilight Boulevard (1950) with Gloria Swanson .

Anna Q. Nilsson was married twice. Both marriages were divorced after a short time and remained childless. Nilsson died of heart failure in California in 1974 . She was the first Swede who a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood received.

Filmography (selection)

1911: Molly Pitcher
1912: Victim of Circumstances
1912: Battle of Pottsburg Bridge
1912: Two Spies
1913: Fatal Legacy
1913: The Infamous Don Miguel
1913: John Burns of Gettysburg
1913: Uncle Tom's Cabin
1914: The Secret of the Will
1914: A Shot in the Dark
1915: regeneration
1915: Hiding From the Law
1915: In the Hands of the Jury
1916: Scarlet Road
1916: Her Surrender
1917: The Silent Master
1917: The Moral Code
1918: No Man's Land
1918: The Trail to Yesterday
1918: Heart of the Sunset
1919: Way of the Strong
1919: Cheating Cheaters
1919: Venus in the East
1920: The Luck of the Irish
1920: The Toll Gate
1921: Why Girls Leave home
1921: The Lotus Eater
1922: Pink Gods
1923: Adam's rib (Adam's Rib)
1923: Souls for Sale
1924: Painted People
1927: Babe Comes Home
1927: Lonesome Ladies
1927: Captain Sorrell and his son (Sorrell and Son)
1928: The Whip
1934: School for Girls
1938: Three Men in Paradise (Paradise for Three)
1938: Prison Farm
1941: His last command (They Died with Their Boots On)
1942: Girls Town
1945: The decision (The Valley of Decision)
1947: Cynthia
1947: The farmer's daughter (The Farmer's Daughter)
1948: Every Girl Should Be Married
1949: Marriage War (Adam's Rib)
1949: Malaya
1949: Back in the summer (In the Good Old Summertime)
1950: From cats and male cats (The Big Hangover)
1950: Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Boulevard)
1951: An American in Paris (An American in Paris)
1951: The Rogue and the Lady (The Law and the Lady)
1951: Mississippi Melody (Show Boat)
1954: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Nilsson, Anna Q.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nilsson, Anna Quirentia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish silent film actress
DATE OF BIRTH	March 30, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ystad , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH	February 11, 1974
Place of death	Hemet , California , USA