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
Every Girl Should Be Married
1948
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
Show Boat
1951
In the Good Old Summertime
1949
The Boy with Green Hair
1948
The Farmer's Daughter
1947
The Great Diamond Robbery
1954
Venus in the East
1919
The Secret Heart
1946
I Live on Danger
1942
It Had to Be You
1947
Crossroads
1942
Headin' for God's Country
1943
Ponjola
1923
A Trip to Paramountown
1922
The World Changes
1933
The Unknown Man
1951
Three Live Ghosts
1922
The Figurehead
1920
Sorrell and Son
1927
The Great Man's Lady
1941
Half-a-Dollar Bill
1924
The Little Minister
1934
Cynthia
1947
The Love Burglar
1919
One Hour Before Dawn
1920
A Very Good Young Man
1919
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1913
Hollywood
1923
The Luck of the Irish
1920
Cheating Cheaters
1919
The Siren's Reign
1915