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Anna Q. Nilsson

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.

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too. ...

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The Great Diamond Robbery (1954)

Ambrose C. Park, left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents, is an assistant to a diamond cutter. Shyster lawyer Remlick, in a strategy to get a fabulous uncut diamond through Ambrose, arranges for Emily Drummon, Duke Farg ...

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The Unknown Man (1951)

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty. ...

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An American in Paris (1951)

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, ...

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Show Boat (1951)

A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat. ...

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Grounds for Marriage (1951)

Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett. ...

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Sunset Boulevard (1950)

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. ...

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Adam's Rib (1949)

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. ...

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In the Good Old Summertime (1949)

Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail. ...

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Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)

Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. ...

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The Boy with Green Hair (1948)

Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up wit ...

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Fighting Father Dunne (1948)

A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis. ...

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It Had to Be You (1947)

A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality. ...

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Cynthia (1947)

Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date. ...

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The Farmer's Daughter (1947)

After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics. ...

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The Secret Heart (1946)

Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase, and stepmother, Lee, work to help Penny process her grief through psychotherapy and revisiting their pas ...

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Cry 'Havoc' (1943)

The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn't what they expected. A motley crew, including a Southern belle, a waitress, and a stripper, show up. Many conflicts arise among these women who are thrown together in what is a de ...

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Headin' for God's Country (1943)

In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger visits a small town and tells them that the U.S. is going to be taken over by a powerful country. The stor ...

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Crossroads (1942)

A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember. ...

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I Live on Danger (1942)

A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss. ...

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Girls' Town (1942)

A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for movie careers. ...

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They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation. ...

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The Great Man's Lady (1941)

In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and ...

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Riders of the Timberline (1941)

Hopalong Cassidy and Johnny Nelson ride to the mountains to help a man and his daughter save their logging business from someone who is sabotaging their efforts. ...

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Prison Farm (1938)

Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarce ...

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Behind the Criminal (1937)

Episode 13 of the Crime Does Not Play series from MGM. ...

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Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935)

Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands and joins an outlaw gang who prey on gold prospectors. Years later, he meets his wife and her gold-prospectin ...

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The Little Minister (1934)

The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the ministe ...

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School for Girls (1934)

After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the managemen ...

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The World Changes (1933)

Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather. ...

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Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo! (1931)

Snippets of Greta Garbo movies interspersed with provincial gigs of girls resembling Garbo. The film begins with one of the aspirants reading an issue of the newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen. ...

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