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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 the business for being gay, but he stuck around and made a name for himself as an interior designer and he's remembered. (Sadly, pretty much - only - for being gay and losing his acting career....) But it's such an interesting question about who gets remembered and why. We recently watched som
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Nils Asther: “The Male Greta Garbo”
Today is the birthday of silent screen idol Nils Asther (1897-1981). A Danish-Swede by birth, he first found fame on the silent screen in Scandinavia and Germany before coming to Hollywood in 1927 to make his first film Topsy and Eva with the Duncan Sisters. He was to marry Vivian Duncan in 1930, although the union only lasted two years. Asther’s good looks instantly made him a matinee idol, and he was often called “the male Greta Garbo“, starring in some films that have become classics such as Laugh, Clown, Laugh with Lon Chaney in 1928.
In 1930, like so many other silent screen stars, he undertook a vaudeville tour to prove that he could talk (no doubt he was aided in the enterprise by his wife, a vaudeville vet). Variety declared his act “dull and boring”. Nonetheless his career in talkies continued unabated, although his accent now restricted the range of roles he was able to play. Typical was his part as a Chinese warlord in Frank Capra’s 1933 The Bitter Tea of General Yen with Barbara Stanwyck. He worked in Hollywood until the mid 50s, with one brief interlude in the late 30s when London was his base. In the late 50s, he moved back to Sweden, made a few more films, the
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Nils Asther
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