Anna Q. Nilsson
Birthday: 1888-03-30
Place of Birth: Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
Biography: Anna Quirentia Nilsson was a Swedish-born actress who achieved success in American silent movies. Starring in some 200 feature films. The first Swedish actress to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1905, she had earned enough for a ticket across the Atlantic. In New York she was discovered on a thriving avenue by the famous portrait painter James Carroll Beckwith and soon she was New York's highest paid model. In 1907 she was named America's most beautiful woman and became a model for the 1910s beauty ideal, The Gibson Girl Look.
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Sunset Boulevard
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One Hour Before Dawn
When a hypnotist named Norman Osgood mesmerizes a man named Harrison Kirke without his consent, Kirk...
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Sold Out
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Enemies of Children
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Cheating Cheaters
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In Judgment of...
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The Fighting Chance
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The Little Minister
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Soldiers of Fortune
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The Love Burglar
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If I Marry Again
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Auction of Souls
A Hollywood biographical film about a survivor's experience of the Armenian Genocide. Arshaluys (Aur...
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Regeneration
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Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
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Shenandoah
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The Fatal Legacy
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A Mississippi Tragedy
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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The Siren's Reign
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The Destroyer
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The Haunting Fear
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A Sister's Burden
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Hollywood
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The Supreme Sacrifice
David Aldrich aspires to be an author. The publishers reject most of his manuscripts because they se...
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In the Heart of a Fool
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The Night Operator at Buxton
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Flowing Gold
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The Splendid Road
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Sorrell and Son
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The Luck of the Irish
William Grogan, lives in New York City and meets the outside world only through the little basement ...
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The Unknown Man
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I Live on Danger
A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss....
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Cynthia
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date....
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The Secret Heart
Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death ...
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The World Changes
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen...
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A Trip to Paramountown
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, feat...
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Blockade
Blockade was one of those curious 1929 hybrids known as a "part-talkie." The story of a dauntless fe...
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No Man's Land
Free and easy Garrett Cope loves Katherine Gresham, but his rival, Henry Miller, who is really Heinr...
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Fighting Father Dunne
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis....
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Girls' Town
A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for m...
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Grounds for Marriage
Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett....
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The Regeneration
At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the ...
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Broadway After Dark
Ralph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to Helen...
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The Whip
Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in th...
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Easy Pickings
Simeon Van Horne is poisoned by Stewart, his lawyer, who hopes to get a part of the estate to be div...
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Prison Farm
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy f...
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Ponjola
Ponjola is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the novel of the same name by Cynthia Stockley...
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Cry 'Havoc'
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The 13th Commandment
Disillusioned by the transience of wealth when her father's bank balance can no longer support his f...
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Adam's Rib
Michael Ramsay only has time for gathering his fortune in wheat. His wife seeks comfort elsewhere an...
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Show Boat
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The Toll Gate
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The Tight Rein
Two wealthy mill owners wishing to consolidate their riches plot the arranged marriage of their chil...
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Her Surrender
A story of violence, deceit, deception and malfeasance among the rich set and the hoodlums with whom...
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In the Good Old Summertime
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an...
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Three Live Ghosts
Adapted from a popular Broadway play and concerns three veterans who return to London from the War o...
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The Man From Home
A fairly conventional romance of an American heiress, loved by boy back home, bedazzled by a glamoro...
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
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An American in Paris
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
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Every Girl Should Be Married
Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Bro...
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Headin' for God's Country
In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totall...
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The Darling of the CSA
Anna Q. Nilsson is the title character, Agnes Lane, a daring spy for the South during the Civil War....
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Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
Snippets of Greta Garbo movies interspersed with provincial gigs of girls resembling Garbo. The film...
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Riders of the Timberline
Hopalong Cassidy and Johnny Nelson ride to the mountains to help a man and his daughter save their l...
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The Great Diamond Robbery
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Adam's Rib
A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam...
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It Had to Be You
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality....
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The Farmer's Daughter
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unex...
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Painted People
Ellie Byrne and Don Lane, chums, living in the poor section of a factory town, go away to make their...
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Midnight Lovers
During World War I, a young woman marries a famous flying ace. After the honeymoon, he is called bac...
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The Lotus Eater
Naive Jacques Lenoi marries money-hungry Madge Vance. When Madge realizes he isn't as moneyed as she...
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They Died with Their Boots On
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death...
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The Great Man's Lady
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who...
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The Isle of Lost Ships
A likely lost film. The passengers on an ocean steamer guided by a strict captain are shipwrecked. H...
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Crossroads
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember....
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The Confederate Ironclad
During the Civil War, Elinor, a pretty Northern girl, comes south to visit her aunt-- Little does an...
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Babe Comes Home
A baseball-styled sports filmed centered on Babe Ruth and Anna Q. It is considered a lost film....
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that the...
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Venus in the East
Buddy McNair is so enchanted by the newspaper photos of New York society beauty Mrs. Pat Dyvenot tha...
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Her Kingdom of Dreams
A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth and a...
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Miss Nobody
The father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with a g...
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The Greater Glory
Fanny von Berg's engagement to Count Maxim von Hurtig is suddenly broken off and she is denounced by...
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The Masked Woman
Baron Tolento lusts for Diane Delatour, his physician's wife, and donates money to their favorite ch...
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The Side Show of Life
An English circus clown finds he's lost his touch after returning from war....
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A Sporting Chance
A young lady takes on a convict as her chauffeur, believing him to be a burglar. In reality, however...
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The People of Värmland
Anna is a poor girl who loves Erik, the son of a rich farmer. His parents are however determined to ...
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The Rustle of Silk
Lola de Breze loves Lord Arthur Fallaray from afar, though there seems to be no way to bring them to...
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Without Limit
Robert Frazer and Anna Q. Nilsson star in this drama, based on Temple Dusk by Calvin Johnson. David ...
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The 13th Juror
A 1927 American mystery film directed by Edward Laemmle and written by Charles Logue and Walter Anth...
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Inez from Hollywood
Inez Laranotta is an actress who is notorious for her vamp roles and for the wild parties she attend...
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Too Much Money
Millionaire Robert Broadley, in order to curb his wive's enthusiasm for spending money foolishly, in...
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The Talker
Kate Lennox is bored with suburban life and her husband, Harry. Their next-door neighbors, the hen-p...
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School for Girls
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered...
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Vanity Pool
A candidate for governor, eager Gerald Harper persuades his equally ambitious wife Carol to enlist t...
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Heart of the Sunset
Alaire Austin runs a cattle ranch along the Texas-Mexican border with her corrupt husband Ed. After ...
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Pink Gods
The owner of vast diamond mines, John Quelch is constantly fearful of theft and convinced that any w...
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Thundering Dawn
Jack Standish feels responsible for the failure of the partnership with his father and goes to the S...
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Wanderer of the Wasteland
Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not...
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Vanity's Price
Successful actress Vanna Du Maurier ignores her friends' advice and overworks herself toward her goa...
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The Scarlet Road
Twenty-one-year-old Harry Tremaine has perfected an airplane motor which he hopes will make his fort...
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Why Girls Leave Home
Mr. Hedder is an old fashioned man who will not let his daughter Anna own an evening gown, but she i...
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Hearts Aflame
The son of a retired timber baron meets and falls in love with a Michigan woman who refuses to sell ...
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Barbara Frietchie
An old woman in Frederick, Maryland during the U.S. Civil War displays her American flag in defiance...
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Between Friends
When Jack Greylock elopes with Jessica, wife of his lifelong friend David Drene, they are taken with...
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The Way of the Strong
In an Alaskan mining camp, James Leyburn runs off with his gold prospecting partner Alexander Hendri...
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The Breath of Scandal
When Charles Hale is visiting his mistress, Sybil Russell, he is shot in the arm by Sybil's estrange...
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The Moral Code
To protect the family name, a man of morals and integrity marries a young woman his brother got preg...
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