#Anna Q. Nilsson

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The waxworks with Madame on set of Billy Wilder’s SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950): Buster Keaton, Gloria Swanson, Anna Q Nilsson, and HB Warner

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Lady of The Day 🌹 Anna Q Nilsson ❤️

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"The Waxworks" - Buster Keaton, Gloria Swanson, Anna Q. Nilsson, and H.B Warner at a lunch break during the filming of “Sunset Blvd” (1950)

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Anna Q. Nilsson par Henry Clive, 1923.

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Anna Q. Nilsson was one of the very earliest actresses in film to achieve fame, although her name is all but unknown to audiences today.

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Here are 10 things you should know about Anna Q. Nilsson, born 137 years ago today. She was a huge star in the silent era before an accident altered the course of her career.

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Anna Q. Nilsson in The Regeneration (1915, Raoul Walsh) / Girls' Town (1942, Victor Halperin)

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Anna Q. Nilsson and Walter Pidgeon in Miss Nobody

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11 febbraio … ricordiamo …

11 febbraio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2021: Joan Weldon, all’anagrafe Joan Louise Welton, attrice e cantante statunitense. Si ritirò a vita privata per dedicarsi alla famiglia. (n. 1930) 2018: Vic Damone, nome d’arte di Vito Rocco Farinola, cantante statunitense nato nel sobborgo di Brooklyn (New York) da due immigrati italiani. Fra le sue mogli ci fu Anna Maria Pierangeli e Diahann Carroll. (n. 1928) 2015: Roger Hanin, nome d’arte…

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Anna Q. Nilsson (March 30, 1888 – February 11, 1974)

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Remember, they were Nilsson’s until the tallest of the species became Skarsgärds. We need to see the men of this line to be sure.

The Nilsson sisters: Anna, Ester, Brita, and little sister Kerstin. Sweden.

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Buster’s Cameo in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

“Four old silent movie stars, scornfully dubbed “the waxworks” by a young screenwriter, sit around a table playing bridge. The camera turns from hostess Gloria Swanson to Anna Q. Nilsson and H.B. Warner—two faces only the most recondite of silent film buffs will identify—as they make their bids. Then the camera moves on to Buster’s face, lined beneath thin grey hair, grim and yet still strangely innocent. “Pass,” he says, investing the single word with a weight of stoic discouragement. The camera stays on his face through the next round of bidding, and when his turn comes he repeats his monosyllabic line, now with the wistful air of a poor child pretending he doesn’t mind that he isn’t getting a Christmas present.

Director Billy Wilder, a fan of Keaton’s silent films, said that Buster’s real-life passion for bridge was serendipitous (Wilder shared a mania for both bridge and baseball) but that, “I would have taken him even if he never had played cards. I wanted his face.”

Wilder and his co-writer Charles Brackett might have been thinking of Keaton when they penned one of the best-known lines ever spoken about silent movies, Norma’s boast that, “We didn’t need dialogue. We had faces. There just aren’t any faces like that anymore.”

Except from: Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy by Imogen Sara Smith

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Anna Q. Nilsson, c. 1920s.

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Anna Q. Nilsson (1888-1974).  Popularly known as Anna Q, who was born in Ystad, Sweden,and emigrated to the United States in 1905.