Acting
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.
Sunset Boulevard
1950 · Movie
Shenandoah
1913 · Movie
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954 · Movie
An American in Paris
1951 · Movie
They Died with Their Boots On
1941 · Movie
In the Good Old Summertime
1949 · Movie
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1913 · Movie
School for Girls
1934 · Movie
Adam's Rib
1949 · Movie
Hollywood
1923 · Movie
Every Girl Should Be Married
1948 · Movie
Infidelity
1917 · Movie
Show Boat
1951 · Movie
The Boy with Green Hair
1948 · Movie
The Figurehead
1920 · Movie
Painted People
1924 · Movie
The Farmer's Daughter
1947 · Movie
The Inevitable
1917 · Movie
Her Surrender
1916 · Movie
Crossroads
1942 · Movie
Grounds for Marriage
1951 · Movie
Blockade
1928 · Movie
Sorrell and Son
1927 · Movie
The Unknown Man
1951 · Movie
Cheating Cheaters
1919 · Movie
The Great Diamond Robbery
1954 · Movie
It Had to Be You
1947 · Movie
The Moral Code
1917 · Movie
The Night Operator at Buxton
1915 · Movie
The World Changes
1933 · Movie
Souls for Sale
1923 · Movie
Half-a-Dollar Bill
1924 · Movie
The Great Man's Lady
1941 · Movie
Prison Farm
1938 · Movie
Vanity Pool
1918 · Movie
Without Limit
1921 · Movie
The Secret Heart
1946 · Movie
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
1921 · Movie
The Luck of the Irish
1920 · Movie
Winds of Chance
1925 · Movie
The Little Minister
1934 · Movie
A Sporting Chance
1919 · Movie
The Breath of Scandal
1924 · Movie
Auction of Souls
1919 · Movie
The Way of the Strong
1919 · Movie
The Scarlet Road
1916 · Movie
Babe Comes Home
1927 · Movie
The Darling of the CSA
1912 · Movie
Fighting Father Dunne
1948 · Movie
One Hour Before Dawn
1920 · Movie
One Way Street
1925 · Movie
The Greater Glory
1926 · Movie
A Very Good Young Man
1919 · Movie
The Siren's Reign
1915 · Movie
The Confederate Ironclad
1912 · Movie
Cry 'Havoc'
1943 · Movie
A Sister's Burden
1915 · Movie
The Spoilers
1923 · Movie
The Man From Home
1922 · Movie
Cynthia
1947 · Movie
Three Live Ghosts
1922 · Movie
Venus in the East
1919 · Movie
The Talker
1925 · Movie
Pink Gods
1922 · Movie
A Trip to Paramountown
1922 · Movie
Miss Nobody
1926 · Movie
I Live on Danger
1942 · Movie
The Splendid Road
1925 · Movie
The 13th Commandment
1920 · Movie
Riders of the Timberline
1941 · Movie
Her Kingdom of Dreams
1919 · Movie
The Regeneration
1915 · Movie
Regeneration
1914 · Movie
The Fatal Legacy
1913 · Movie
Ponjola
1923 · Movie
Thundering Dawn
1923 · Movie
If I Marry Again
1925 · Movie
The Brute Master
1920 · Movie
Midnight Lovers
1926 · Movie
The Love Burglar
1919 · Movie
Inez from Hollywood
1924 · Movie
In the Heart of a Fool
1920 · Movie
The Rustle of Silk
1923 · Movie
The Toll Gate
1920 · Movie
Wanderer of the Wasteland
1935 · Movie
Broadway After Dark
1924 · Movie
The Lotus Eater
1921 · Movie
Headin' for God's Country
1943 · Movie
The Masked Woman
1927 · Movie
The 13th Juror
1927 · Movie
What Women Will Do
1921 · Movie
Hearts Aflame
1923 · Movie
Adam's Rib
1923 · Movie
Why Girls Leave Home
1921 · Movie
The Isle of Lost Ships
1923 · Movie
Heart of the Sunset
1918 · Movie
Enemies of Children
1923 · Movie
Girls' Town
1942 · Movie
No Man's Land
1918 · Movie
Over There
1917 · Movie
Lonesome Ladies
1927 · Movie
Flowing Gold
1924 · Movie
The Whip
1928 · Movie
Behind the Criminal
1937 · Movie
The Fire Patrol
1924 · Movie
Barbara Frietchie
1915 · Movie
The Haunting Fear
1915 · Movie
Too Much Money
1926 · Movie
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1917 · Movie
Between Friends
1924 · Movie
The Side Show of Life
1924 · Movie
Sold Out
1916 · Movie
The Trail To Yesterday
1918 · Movie
The Fighting Chance
1920 · Movie
The People of Värmland
1921 · Movie
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
1914 · Movie
The Destroyer
1915 · Movie
Soldiers of Fortune
1919 · Movie
The Supreme Sacrifice
1916 · Movie
Vanity's Price
1924 · Movie
A Mississippi Tragedy
1913 · Movie
