Still of Greta Garbo and Asta Nielsen in Die freudlose Gasse (1925)
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Caption: Still of Greta Garbo and Asta Nielsen in Die freudlose Gasse (1925)
About Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen
Actress, Producer, Director
Born: September 11, 1881
Star sign: Virgo
Known for: The Joyless Street (1925), The Woman Always Pays (1910), Hamlet (1921), Den sorte drøm (1911)
Source: IMDB
Danish leading woman of German films who became one of the greatest stars of the silent era. A native of the Copenhagen suburb of Vesterbro, Nielsen was the daughter of a coppersmith and a washerwoman, both of whom died before Nielsen was fifteen. Her stage debut came as a child in the chorus of the Kongelige Teater's production of Boito's opera "...
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