Nils asther and greta garbo biography
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Gods and Foolish Grandeur
So happy to have sent you down the rabbit hole! I certainly hold that there are innumerable LGBQT people in film history that were "left out of the party", as it were, for that very reason. By I also wonder about that group of actors who began late in the Silent era, made the transition to sound, but whose careers didn't last past the early Thirties. The films of the very late Twenties and early Thirties, the "Pre-Code" era, are only now really beginning to be appreciated I think. There are some masterpieces from that period, certainly, but there are also a lot of things that are so bland and awkward as to be nearly unwatchable. I really wonder if we'd much remember Shearer or Crawford, Cooper or Cagney if their careers, their starring roles, had dried up by 1933, as Asther's essentially did. And then he eventually disappeared back to Sweden. His career contemporary, the delightful William Haines, was drummed out of th
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Nils Asther
3: Silent films with Garbo, 1929
In 1928, Nils Asther made two silent movies with Greta Garbo, released the following year. Talkies were already proving popular, but Garbo, with her heavy Swedish accent, was being kept away from them as long as possible. Asther, with a similar thick Swedish accent, and a similar problem, was a natural pairing and the MGM producers decided to star them in Wild Orchids and The Single Standard.
Both films were a commercial success, but marked the last wave of the silent screen.
Asther and Garbo had known each other since 1924 when they were students at the Dramatiska Teatern in Sweden.Around the time of this filming, Asther became a repeat visitor to Garbo's house, a rare enough occurrence for the solitary actress, and tillsammans they travelled and hiked in the hills. According to Asther's biography, he proposed three times to Garbo. After filming had finished in late 1928, he made her his final offer of marriage.
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Nils Asther
Swedish actor (1897–1981)
Nils Asther | |
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Asther in 1928 by J. Willis Sayre | |
| Born | Nils Anton Alfhild Asther (1897-01-17)17 January 1897 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Died | 19 October 1981(1981-10-19) (aged 84) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, painter |
| Years active | 1916–1963 |
| Spouse | Vivian Duncan (m. 1930; div. 1932) |
| Children | 1 |
Nils Anton Alfhild Asther (17 January 1897 – 19 October 1981)[1] was a Swedish actor active in Hollywood from 1926 to the mid-1950s, known as "the male Greta Garbo". Between 1916 and 1963 he appeared in over seventy feature films, sixteen of which were produced in the silent era. He is mainly remembered today for two silent films – The Single Standard and Wild Orchids – he made with fellow Swede Greta Garbo, and his portrayal of the title character in the controversial pre-CodeFrank Capra film The Bitter