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    Gertrude Olmstead (November 13, 1897 – January 18, 1975) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 56 films between 1920 and 1929. Career Olmstead was born in Chicago, Illinois, and appeared in her first credited film role in the 1921 film The Fox, when she was only 17. She obtained several more roles that same year, appearing in nine films in 1921, and another five in 1922. She would appear in seventeen more films by the time she received what is today her best known role, opposite Rudolph Valentino in the 1925 film Cobra. Throughout the silent film era her career thrived. From 1925 through 1929 she appeared in twenty eight films, most often portraying the heroine. With the advent of sound film her career stalled, and she retired from acting in 1929. Personal life and death In 1926, she met MGM director Robert Z. Leonard, and they were married June 8 of that year. Leonard and Olmstead remained married until his death in 1968. After Leonard's death, Olmstead remained in the Los Angeles area, and died in Beverly Hills on January 18, 1975. Selected filmography Tipped Off (1920) The Driftin' Kid (1921) Sweet Revenge (1921) Kickaroo (1921) The Fightin' Fury (1921) Out o' Luck (1921) The Fox (1921) The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1922) The Loaded Door (1922) Cameo Kirby (1923) The Monster (1925) Cobra (1925) The Boob (1926) Becky (1927) Torrent (1926) Hey Rube! (1928) The Show of Shows (1929) Sonny Boy (1929)
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    Seena Owen (November 14, 1894 - August 15, 1966) was a Danish-American silent film actress. Born Signe Auen November 14, 1894 Spokane, Washington Died August 15, 1966 (aged 71) Hollywood, California Spouse George Walsh (1916-1924) Early Life She was born Signe M. Auen at Spokane, Washington, the youngest of three children raised by Jens Christensen and Karen Auen. Her father and mother came from Denmark in the late 1880s and settled in Minnesota where they married in 1888. Within a short period of time they relocated to Portland and then Spokane where her father became proprietor of the Columbia Pharmacy on the corner of Main and Washington. In her youth Owen was enrolled at Brunot Hall, an Episcopalian girl’s school in Spokane founded by Bishop Lemuel H. Wells, and would later attend school overseas in Copenhagen. Owen's life as the daughter of an affluent business owner changed in her late teens when the family business failed and it became necessary to seek employment. She received her early inspiration to act while a student at the Pauline Dunstan Belden School of Elocution in Spokane before appearing in a stock production in San Francisco playing the part of a maid for $5 a week. Soon she traveled south to Hollywood to find work as a movie extra and had the good fortune to run into actor-director Marshall Neilan, then a Hollywood "boy wonder" who Owen knew when they both lived in Spokane. Through Neilan she was hired by the Kalem Company, an early motion picture studio, at $15 a week. Career Her first important film was A Yankee From the West (1915) under the name Signe Auen at the age of 21. She was later convinced to change her name and settled on Seena Owen, the phonetic spelling of her real name. In 1916 she performed in D. W. Griffith's Intolerance. The same year she married George Walsh whom she had met on the set of Intolerance. The marriage lasted until their divorce in 1924. A regular player for the rest of the silent era, Owen appeared in films such as Maurice Tourneur's Victory in 1919 where she was photographed to great effect by Tourneur's cameraman, Rene Guissart. Victory long lost was recently found in 35mm print in Europe and can now showcase Seena's beauty to modern audiences on DVD. In 1920 Owen appeared in "The Gift Supreme" with Lon Chaney, who appeared with her in Victory. All but one reel of The Gift Supreme is lost. She also co-starred with Gloria Swanson and Walter Byron in the ill-fated Queen Kelly (1928), in which she plays the mad Queen who whips Swanson in one famous scene. With the arrival of sound in movies, Owen's weak voice became a problem and forced her to retire from the silver screen in 1933. After her retirement, she worked on a number of films in the 1930s and 40s as a screenwriter including two starring Dorothy Lamour, Aloma of the South Seas and Rainbow Island, both in 1941. The former was written in part with her sister, Lillie Hayward, a successful Hollywood screenwriter. Owen is also known for being on William Randolph Hearst's yacht The Oneida during the weekend in November 1924 when film director and producer Thomas Ince fell ill a few days before suffering a fatal heart attack at his Hollywood home. This incident was the basis for the film The Cat's Meow. Death Seena Owen died on August 15, 1966 at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, aged 71, and was interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.She was survived by her daughter, Patricia Walsh Noonan. Selected filmography Queen Kelly (1929) The Blue Danube (1928) Flame of the Yukon (1926) Back Pay (1922) (Extant; Library of Congress) Riders of Vengeance (1919) Victory (1919) with Lon Chaney, Sr. and Wallace Beery Intolerance (1916) Little Marie (1915) The Highbinders (1915) An Image of the Past (1915) The Lamb (1915) The Penitentes (1915)
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    Marian Nixon (October 20, 1904 – February 13, 1983) was an American film actress. Career Born Marian Nissinen in Superior, Wisconsin, Nixon began her career as a teen working as a chorus dancer on the vaudeville circuit. She began appearing in bit part in films in 1922 and landed her first substantial role in the 1923 film Cupid's Fireman, opposite Buck Jones. The following year, she was named a WAMPAS Baby Star. Nixon continued to work steadily throughout the mid to late 1920s appearing in Riders of the Purple Sage (1925), Hands Up! (1926), and The Chinese Parrot (1927). In 1929, she made her talkie debut as the lead in Geraldine. Later that same year, Nixon appeared opposite Al Jolson in Say It with Songs followed by General Crack in 1930. In 1932, she starred as Rebecca in the film adaption of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm with Ralph Bellamy. Following the release of Rebecca, Nixon co-starred in Winner Take All with James Cagney. The next year she had a supporting role in John Ford's Pilgrimage. In 1934, Nixon attempted to change her wholesome image with a role in the comedy We’re Rich Again. The film wasn't a success and after appearing in eight more films, Nixon retired from acting in 1936. Personal life On August 11, 1929, Nixon married Chicago department store heir, Edward Hillman, Jr., at the home of his parents. The couple divorced in 1933. The following year, she married her We’re Rich Again director, William A. Seiter. The marriage lasted until Seiter's death in 1964. In 1974, married actor/producer Ben Lyon. After Lyon's death in 1979, Nixon never remarried. Death On February 13, 1983, Nixon died of complications following open heart surgery at the age of 78. She is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Marian Nixon has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1724 Vine Street in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography Year Title Role Notes 1923 Rosita Undetermined Bit Role Uncredited Big Dan Dora Allen 1924 The Circus Cowboy Bird Taylor The Last of the Duanes Ruth 1925 Let 'er Buck Jacqueline McCall Credited as Marion Nixon Sporting Life Nora Cavanaugh 1926 Hands Up! Mae Devil's Island Rose Marie Spangles Spangles Delancy 1927 Taxi! Taxi! Rose Zimmerman The Auctioneer Ruth Levi 1928 The Fourflusher June Allen Jazz Mad Elsa Hausmann 1929 Rainbow Man Mary Lane Young Nowheres Annie Jackson 1930 Scarlet Pages Nora Mason Ex-Flame Lady Catherine 1931 Sweepstakes Babe Ellis Women Go on Forever Betty 1932 Charlie Chan's Chance Shirley Marlowe After Tomorrow Sidney Taylor Amateur Daddy Sally Smith 1933 Best of Enemies Lena Schneider Chance at Heaven Glory Franklyn Credited as Marion Nixon 1934 Strictly Dynamite Sylvia Montgomery We're Rich Again Arabella Sykes Embarrassing Moments Jane 1935 Sweepstakes Annie Annie Foster Alternative title: Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1936 Tango Treasure McGuire Captain Calamity Madge Lewis
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    Greta Nissen (30 January 1906 – 15 May 1988) was a Norwegian-born American film and stage actress. Stage and Screen Actress Born Grethe Rüzt-Nissen in Oslo, Norway, Nissen was originally a dancer. She debuted as a solo ballerina on the National Theatre in 1922. She toured in Norway and participated in several Danish films. Nissen made her Broadway debut as a ballerina in 1924. She had studied ballet with Mikhail Fokine. In early 1924, she came as a member of a Danish ballet troupe to New York, where she was soon hired to do a larger dance numbers for George S. Kaufman in the musical Beggar on Horseback. Greta was discovered by film producer Jesse L. Lasky of Paramount Pictures, and would appear in more than twenty films. She appeared in The Wanderer (1925, director Raoul Walsh). Among her other films were A Wife, The King on Main Street, The Love Thief, Ambassador Bill, The Lucky Lady, and Honours Easy. In 1932, she played in The Silent Witness with Weldon Heyburn, who became her first husband. Her film career ended in the mid-1930s after she had appeared in a few British films. Critical Acclaim A 1925 New York Times review of the silent film A Norwegian Actress described Greta: She was graceful in her movements and expressions, with a constantly changing gaze. The actress was attractive rather than beautiful. Her chin and nose were both somewhat pronounced. Greta's personality was delightful and she never showed an awareness to the audience that she was conscious of being on camera. Her skin was fair and she possessed blonde hair. At different times her coiffure had a somewhat "wild" appearance. The reviewer believed her hair was more effective when it was brushed down rather than when it was concealed by a small hat. As for her eyes, there was a close affinity in their appearance to those of Sarah Bernhardt. Mordaunt Hall commented on her acting, saying Miss Nissen gives a sincere and earnest portrayal, always obtaining excellent results with an originality rarely beheld on the screen. Missed Opportunity Greta was the original choice for leading lady in Hell's Angels (1930), an epic film made by Howard Hughes. She lost the part due to her strong Norwegian accent when the movie was remade to include sound. In 1933 she moved to England. In 1937 she retired from movie acting altogether. Death In the autumn of 1941, she married industrialist Stuart D. Eckert. Nissen died at home in Montecito, California of Parkinson's disease on May 15, 1988. Greta was 82. Her husband said she still received fan letters. Greta had one son, Tor Bruce Nissen Eckert, who in 2005 gave his large collection of Greta Nissen Memorabilia to the Norwegian Emigrant Museum which is located in Ottestad, county of Hedmark, Norway. The Wanderer (1925) The King on Main Street (1925) The Lucky Lady (1926) The Popular Sin (1926) Blind Alleys (1927) Fazil (1928) Transatlantic (1931) Ambassador Bill (1931) Silent Witness (1932) Honours Easy (1935)
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