Anna Q. Nilsson — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸
Anna Quirentia Nilsson [Anna Q. Nilsson] is one of the pretty girls seen in the Kalem pictures which come from Jacksonville, Fla.
Sweden is the land of Miss Nilsson’s birth and Stockholm and Paris the cities of her education. When she was very young, Miss Anna discovered she had talent as a painter and later, by designing exclusive gowns for a Parisian firm, earned two years of study in Paris.
Tales of New York and its bigness appealed to her and she came, serving as a model for magazine illustrations for her friends and obtaining dramatic experience with a summer stock company meanwhile. Then, one day, as a friend of one of the players, she accompanied the Kalem party which was to produce “The Engineer’s Daughter.”
When word was received that the leading lady was ill and could not be present, Miss Nilsson offered her services, with the result that the Kalem people offered her a contract.
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Collection: Motography Magazine, July 1913