Anna Q. Nilsson
Acting
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.
Born: March 30, 1888
Place of Birth: Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
Known For
Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Sunset Boulevard
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Regeneration
Remembering the miserable end of his father who had died a drunkard's death, George resolves to conquer the terrible craving he has inherited.
A Trip to Paramountown
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
Adam's Rib
A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
The Farmer's Daughter
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
An American in Paris
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
It Had to Be You
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
Filmography
as Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)
as Mrs. Elcott
as Nurse (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Kay Jansen (uncredited)
as Seamstress (uncredited)
as Dowager at Friday Club (uncredited)
as Anna Q. Nilsson
as Mrs. Poynter (uncredited)
as Woman with Harp (uncredited)
as Saleslady
as Mrs. Olaf Knudson
as Saleslady at Hamilton-Cooper (uncredited)
as Miss Brady, English Teacher
as Mrs. Holstrom
as Dr. Rossiger's Secretary
as Nurse (uncredited)
as Mrs. Nilsson
as Madame Deval (uncredited)
as Mrs. Sherman
as Mother Lorraine
as Mrs. Taipe (uncredited)
as Paula Wales
as Donna Ryan
as Matron Ames
as Madge
as Mrs. Virey
as Villager
as Dr. Anne Galvin
as Mrs. Peterson
as Bess
as Dora Sorrell
as Helen Marsden
as Polly Fosdick
as Vernie
as Diane Delatour
as Diana Fothergill
as Barbara Brown
as Fanny
as Annabel Broadley
as Sandra De Hault
as Countess Courteau
as Kate Lennox
as Alicia Wingate
as Inez Laranetta
as Vanna du Maurier
as Mary Ferguson
as Lady Auriol Dayne
as Helen Tremaine
as Jessica Drene
as Allegheny Briskow
as Leslie Carter
as The Stranger - Mrs. Webber
as Patricia - Patsy as an adult
as Mary Rogers
as Lady Flavia Desmond
as Mrs. Michael Ramsay
as Cherry Malotte
as Anna Q. Nilsson
as Lady Feo
as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
as Dorothy Fairfax
as Helen Foraker
as Lady Margot Cork
as Self
as Genevieve Granger-Simpson
as Ivis
as Madge Vance
as Anna Hedder
as Ember Edwards
as Madeline Grey
as Margaret Muller
as Sylvia Landis
as Ellen Aldrich
as Mary Forbes
as Mary Brown
as Ruth Warren
as Alice Langham
as Carlotta Stanmore
as Joan Gray
as Pamela Brent
as Viva Bacchus
as Audrie Hendrie / Monica Norton
as Grace Palmer
as Mrs. Pat Dyvenot
as Carol Harper
as Katherine Gresham
as Bettie Adams
as Mary Norton
as Florence Grey
as Jean Hyland
as Elaine Bernard
as Rhoda Courtlandt
as Leila Austin
as Helen Chambers
as Betty Belgrave
as Sue Negly
as Marie Deering
as Diana - an Adventuress
as Ida - Nathanial's Wife
as Helen Vedrine
as Marguerite Morrison - The Other Woman
as Helen
as Mignon Mars
as Katherine Williams
as Eliza - a Runaway Slave
as Anna Halleck - Harry's Wife
as Gertrude Illingham
as Martha Calhoun - the Planter's Daughter
as Elinor
as Agnes Lane