from 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.

Diane Delatour
Easy Pickings
Mary Ryan

Vernie

Polly Fosdick

Helen Marsden

Dora Sorrell

The Stranger - Mrs. Webber

Leslie Carter

Allegheny Briskow

Jessica Drene

Helen Tremaine

Lady Auriol Dayne

Mary Ferguson

Anna

Vanna du Maurier
Hello, 'Frisco
Anna Q. Nilsson

Inez Laranetta

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(Unknown)

Katherine Gresham
In Judgment of...
Mary Manners

Carol Harper

Betty Belgrave

Helen Chambers
The Tight Rein
Amy

Leila Austin

Rhoda Courtlandt

Agnes Lane
The Grit of the Girl Telegrapher
Betty - the Girl Telegrapher

Elinor