Acting
Anna Q. Nilsson
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.
Titles
Sunset Boulevard
1950
An American in Paris
1951
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954
Adam's Rib
1949
The Boy with Green Hair
1948
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
The Farmer's Daughter
1947
Show Boat
1951
Souls for Sale
1923
Infidelity
1917
Every Girl Should Be Married
1948
The Figurehead
1920
Painted People
1924
The World Changes
1933
School for Girls
1934
In the Good Old Summertime
1949
Her Surrender
1916
Without Limit
1921
Blockade
1928
The Great Diamond Robbery
1954
Cheating Cheaters
1919
The Secret Heart
1946
The Greater Glory
1926
The Great Man's Lady
1941
The Unknown Man
1951
Crossroads
1942
Grounds for Marriage
1951
Sorrell and Son
1927
Babe Comes Home
1927
The Moral Code
1917
I Live on Danger
1942
The Little Minister
1934
Half-a-Dollar Bill
1924
The 13th Commandment
1920
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
1921
The Inevitable
1917