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Anna Q. Nilsson

30 Mar, 1888 in Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden

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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Anna Quirentia NilssonAnnie NilssonAnna Nilsson

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Sold Out
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Regeneration
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Shenandoah
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Hollywood
70% (1923)
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Flowing Gold
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Cynthia
59% (1947)
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Blockade
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Girls' Town
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The Whip
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Prison Farm
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Ponjola
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Cry 'Havoc'
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Adam's Rib
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Miss Nobody
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The 13th Juror
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Too Much Money
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The Talker
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Vanity Pool
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Pink Gods
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