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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.
As actor
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The Great Diamond Robbery
The Unknown Man
Grounds for Marriage
Show Boat
An American in Paris
Sunset Boulevard
In the Good Old Summertime
Adam's Rib
Fighting Father Dunne
Every Girl Should Be Married
The Boy with Green Hair
Cynthia
It Had to Be You
The Farmer's Daughter
The Secret Heart
Cry 'Havoc'
Headin' for God's Country
I Live on Danger
Girls' Town
Crossroads
Riders of the Timberline
They Died with Their Boots On
The Great Man's Lady
Prison Farm
Behind the Criminal
Wanderer of the Wasteland
The Little Minister
School for Girls
The World Changes