Anna Q. Nilsson

Anna Quirentia Nilsson ( born March 30, 1888 in Ystad, Sweden, † February 11, 1974 in Hemet, California, United States) was a Swedish silent film actress.

Life

Anna Q. Nilsson was born in 1888 in Sweden. After a first experience on the Swedish stage, she emigrated in 1910 to the United States. There she worked first as a nanny, later as a photo model. She sat model for posters, and posters, among other things, for Penrhyn Stanlaws. After publication of such Illustration, she was offered a role in the film Molly Pitcher. Nilsson took over and became an overnight star. Her career went uphill steeply, 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), and The Lotus Eater ( 1921) were major successes. 1925, at the height of her career, shortly before the advent of sound films, Nilsson crashed with a horse riding from a horse and was so unhappy that paralysis was the result. For two years she had to pause and learn to walk again.

From 1927 she worked on her comeback, and made ​​several films a year, including The Babe Comes Home with the baseball legend Babe Ruth. With the increasing popularity of the talkies she withdrew more and more from the film business and devoted himself for two decades almost exclusively charitable purposes. She returned only for very small roles (often nameless ) returns to the screen, such as Vincente Minnelli's 1951 An American in Paris. Her best-known role of the sound film era is a cameo appearance (along with Buster Keaton ) in Billy Wilder's drama Sunset Boulevard (1950 ) with Gloria Swanson.

Anna Q. Nilsson was married twice. Both marriages were divorced after a short time and remained childless. Nilsson died in 1974 in California of heart failure.

Award

Anna Q. Nilsson was the first Swedish woman who received a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood.

Filmography (selection)

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