Anna Q. Nilsson
Actor · 1888 – 1974 · 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.
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Movie8.3DramaA hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Sunset Boulevard
1950 · 3K votes
Movie7.0MusicRomanceJerry 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, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
An American in Paris
1951 · 671 votes
Movie7.1ComedyDramaIn 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954 · 584 votes
Movie7.1ComedyRomanceA 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.
Adam's Rib
1949 · 346 votes
Movie6.7WesternWarThe 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.
They Died with Their Boots On
1941 · 124 votes
Movie6.2RomanceDramaA dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.
Show Boat
1951 · 82 votes
Movie6.2DramaComedyPeter, 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 with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.
The Boy with Green Hair
1948 · 68 votes
Movie7.1ComedyRomanceAfter leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
The Farmer's Daughter
1947 · 40 votes
Movie6.8ComedyMusicTwo co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
In the Good Old Summertime
1949 · 43 votes
Movie5.9ComedyRomanceAnabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage
Every Girl Should Be Married
1948 · 30 votes
- Movie7.5Comedy
A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
Hello, 'Frisco
1924 · 2 votes
Movie4.8DramaGenerational 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.
The World Changes
1933 · 8 votes
Movie7.8RomanceComedyA chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
It Had to Be You
1947 · 4 votes
Movie6.8DramaCrimeShirley 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 incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
Prison Farm
1938 · 4 votes
Movie7.5CrimeDramaA dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
Fighting Father Dunne
1948 · 4 votes
Movie5.9DramaMysteryA French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
Crossroads
1942 · 39 votes
Movie6.0AdventureActionAdam 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-prospecting father as they have come there seeking their fortune, and not knowing the danger of the treacherous desert wastes, the poisoned-water holes and the outlaw bands of marauders who roam the desert in search of the gold found by others. He comes to their aid and, eventually, manges to clear his name of the false charge against him.
Wanderer of the Wasteland
1935 · 2 votes
Movie10.0DramaDonald Gray is accused by his partner of dishonesty. The shock of the accusation kills him, and since his innocence cannot be proven, his daughter takes it upon herself to avenge the insult. Meeting Alan Burnham, the couple's only child, he decides to ruin his career.
The Inevitable
1917 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaA story of violence, deceit, deception and malfeasance among the rich set and the hoodlums with whom they unknowingly become involved.
Her Surrender
1916 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyCrimeAmbrose 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 Fargoh and Maggie Drummon to pose as Ambrose's long-lost parents and sister. The diamond, through many comic situations, is acquired and the gang is going to have Ambrose cut the diamond, and relieve him of the two stones and his parental illusions at the same time. But Maggie, who has no taste for the deception, tips Ambrose off and a wild chase ensues. At the end, Ambrose is very happy as he can now marry his "sister."
The Great Diamond Robbery
1954 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaWarThe 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 desperate and ultimately hopeless situation.
Cry 'Havoc'
1943 · 15 votes
Movie9.0DramaIn the city of Bolton, party politics are in the control of two men, Jim Durfee and Gordon Freeman, who intend to keep it that way by running a "figurehead" for mayor. They decide upon Sheridan Dows, known as "Sherry," a young society dilettante, who surprises the political bosses by taking his responsibilities seriously.
The Figurehead
1920 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyA young man's fiancée believes he should sew all his wild oats before marriage, so he sets out to do it all in one night.
A Very Good Young Man
1919 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaFrank Mayne, a well-known artist, who had served a twenty-year sentence for a murder he did not commit, returns unexpectedly to his studio, where an amazing scene confronts him.
Infidelity
1917 · 1 votes