Anna Q. Nilsson
Oyuncu · 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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Film8.3DramJoe Gillis (William Holden) genç bir senaristtir. Film, Gills’in bir havuzda kanlar içinde yatarken görüntüsü ile başlar ve daha sonra altı ay öncesine gideriz. Senaryolarını satamayan ve parasız kalan Joe’nun başı eski borçlarıyla derttedir. Alacaklılardan kaçar ve Sunset Bulvarı’ndaki bir eve sığınarak saklanır. Buradaki ev sahibi ise, sessiz filmler döneminde ün yapmış aktrislerden Norma Desmond’dır (Gloria Swanson). Eski ününü hemen geri kazanabileceğini düşünen Norma, kendi yazdığı bir senaryoyla sinema dünyasına dönmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Joe kendisine senaryo yazımı konusunda yardım edebileceğini söyler ve böylelikle Norma onun bu evde yaşamasına izin verir.
Film7.0MüzikRomantikSavaş sonrası Paris’te kalan iki Amerikalı, ressam Jerry Mulligan ve besteci Adam Cook, Paris’in bir sanatçı için en ideal yer olduğuna inanmaktadırlar. Jerry, Fransız arkadaşının nişanlısı Lise Bouvier ve zengin dul Milo Roberts arasında kalır. Kısa sürede filizlenen Jerry ile Lise’nin yasak aşkı, ünlü ressamların tablolarından esinlenmiş dekorlar önünde gösterişli bir dans şölenine dönüşür.
Film7.1KomediDramBüyük ağabeyleri Adam, yeni evlendiği karısını kardeşleriyle beraber yaşadığı kulübeye getirdiğinden beri Pontipee erkelerinin hayatları oldukça değişmiştir. Hatta durumdan öyle etkilenirler ki, bekar kardeşler kendileri de birer eş sahibi olmak için kasabaya inip beğendikleri kızları kaçırırlar! Stanley Donen'ın yönetmenliğini üstlendiği bu son derece keyifli müzikalde Oscar ödüllü Gene dePaul/Johnny Mercer şarkısı, Michael Kidd'in koreografisi ile herşey yerli yerine oturuyor. başrollerdeki Jane Powell ve Howard Keel'e geyik derilerine bürünmüş erkek dansçılar ve içeteklikli dansözler eşlik ediyor.
Film6.7WesternSavaşThe 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 · 126 votes
Film6.2DramKomediPeter, 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 · 69 votes
Film6.2RomantikDramA dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.
Show Boat
1951 · 82 votes
Film7.1KomediRomantikYönetmenliğini George Cukor'un yaptığı bu klasik komedide, Akademi Ödüllü Spencer Tracy ve Katharine Hepburn, karı koca avukat ekibi olarak, biri bir tarafı, diğeri öteki tarafı temsil etmektedir. Bir metresi olduğunu keşfettiği kocasını öldürme girişiminden tutuklanan bir kadının davası, avukat Adam Bonner'a göre son derece basit bir davadır. Ama Adam'ın karısı, Amanda Bonner, kocanın karısının bir ilişkisi olduğunu keşfetmesi ve karısını öldürme girişiminde bulunması durumunda, suç oluşturmayan adam öldürmeye teşebbüs davası açılacağına inanmaktadır... Ve böylece, karşıt cinsler arasında bugüne kadar filmi yapılmış, gelmiş geçmiş en zekice mahkeme savaşı başlar.
Film6.0KomediRomantikAnabel 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 · 31 votes
Film6.7KomediMüzikTwo 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 · 42 votes
Film7.1KomediRomantikAfter 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 · 41 votes
Film5.9DramGizemA French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
Crossroads
1942 · 39 votes
Film10.0KomediSuçAmbrose 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
Film6.5DramPenny 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 past, but only the revelation of long-buried family secrets -- including her Lee's secret lover and the true nature of her father's death -- can bring Penny out of her intense despair.
The Secret Heart
1946 · 11 votes
Film7.8RomantikKomediA chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
It Had to Be You
1947 · 4 votes
Film9.0DramIn 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
Film6.0MaceraAksiyonAdam 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
Film6.3WesternDramIn 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 flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
The Great Man's Lady
1941 · 12 votes
Film4.5WesternHopalong 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.
Riders of the Timberline
1941 · 2 votes
Film10.0DramDonald 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
Film10.0KomediA 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
Film8.0KomediDramBuddy McNair is so enchanted by the newspaper photos of New York society beauty Mrs. Pat Dyvenot that he decides to leave Colorado with his newly inherited fortune, travel to New York, and win her heart. On the train, some gamblers, apparently aided by a pretty girl named Martha, cheat Buddy out of a large sum, and in New York, his lack of eastern polish makes him appear foolish.
Venus in the East
1919 · 1 votes
Film9.0DramRobert Frazer and Anna Q. Nilsson star in this drama, based on Temple Dusk by Calvin Johnson. David Marlowe (Frazer), the son of a clergyman (Frank Currier), is seduced by the earthly delights of drinking and gambling. While intoxicated he proposes to Ember Edwards (Nilsson), and she accepts because he has told her he is rich and she is sick of her poverty-stricken life. At a gambling house run by Clement Palter (Charles Lane), David takes a 25 dollar check from Bunny Fish (Robert Schable), changes the amount to 2,500 dollars, and proceeds to lose the whole sum at faro.
Without Limit
1921 · 1 votes
Film8.0AksiyonDramIn 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 story turns out to be true when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The town then rises up and slaughters a Japanese raiding party.
Headin' for God's Country
1943 · 1 votes
Film10.0MaceraBlockade was one of those curious 1929 hybrids known as a "part-talkie." The story of a dauntless female prohibition agent. In her pursuit of a gang of Florida rum-runners, Bess assumes three identities. At various junctures, she is "herself," a society belle and a gangster's moll.
Blockade
1928 · 1 votes