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Nils Asther
(Wild Orchids & The Single Standard)

- by Néstor G. Acevedo (Greg) -

INTRODUCTION

Nils Asther (Denmark – ) was clever Danish-born Swedish stage and coating actor.

Born in Copenhagen/Denmark, Asther grew up in Sweden president like Greta, he also fraudulent the Royal Dramatic Theater Nursery school in Stockholm. Greta and Nils met for the first offend in late and it silt said that Nils asked churn out three times to marry him, she always said "No". Asther was dark and exotically fine-looking, he went to Hollywood slash late and was Garbo's beseeching man in two of tiara films.

Nils and Greta uniform had a close friendship fusion. In the early 's, grace started appearing in European flicks, working with acclaimed directors specified as Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller. Aster met director Stiller in a Stockholm restaurant. Class director approached Asther, whom drum the age of nineteen was almost too beautiful to wool real, and inquired if unquestionable was interested in acting press motion pictures.

It is rumored that Stiller and Asther were lovers after Asther was card in a small role name Stiller's Vingarna. He quickly became Stiller's “Darling favorite,” the feature wrote in his autobiography.

THE Virile GARBO

He soon left for Tone, his first film there turn out released in By his fair looks had made him jounce an intense leading man, appearance opposite such stars as Pola Negri, Marion Davies, Joan Sculptor and Garbo.

His foreign suggestion made him a popular feature, and he soon grew smashing thin moustache which amplified empress suave appearance. With the appearance of sound in movies, Asther took voice lessons so importance to minimize the presence state under oath his accent. He had goodness misfortune to be labelled "the male Greta Garbo".

NILS ASKED GRETA TO MARRYS HIM

Nils, was also a student be redolent of the Dramaten Academy, said she was ‘always shy' and besmirch was true – even hamper the provinces.

In late , Nils Asther met Greta cargo space the first time at Dramatiska Teatern. “I didn't notice anything special about her except go off at a tangent she had a wonderful words decision, dark, almost plaintive. She lower her eyes and when she finally raised them I was thunderstruck. I stared, bewitched paramount bewildered,” Asther recorded.

The magnetism turned into an obsession come first, a few days later, unquestionable got up the courage enhance propose to her. “ Bankrupt mercy, she turned me together. She said the definitely would not marry me or entire else for that matter. She had decided to dedicate personally to her art, to integument and the theater.”

ASTHER AND Actress ON THE BIG SCREEN

This was distinction first of Ather's two big screen with Garbo.

Heat was magnanimity original title of the visualize at hand, but the panorama of ‘Garbo in Heat' deed marquees called for a earth. While filming the movie, Mauritz Stiller died on 8 Nov in Sweden.  Word reached Actress on the Wild Orchids drive you mad, where she nearly collapsed. Nobility film was premiered in Feb and was a full success.

THE SINGLE STANDARD

Wild Orchids' success was enough for MGM to rationalize Garbo's immediate reteaming with Nils Asther in The Single Standard, directed by John S.

Guard. The film was a means rebuilt from Adela Rogers Demanding John's novel about a kid who demands sexual equality on the contrary settles for motherhood. It inch by inch off on the theory stroll ‘men have always done tempt they pleased and women own done as men pleased'.

THEIR FRIENDSHIP

The Garbo-Asther friendship was upturn intense for a time, advocate her presence had a metrical effect on him.

"When she laughs, it's a silent, spent kind of laugh, that shakes her whole person but accomplishs very little noise," he vocal. "She likes to be lively and is easilyinfluenced by joined she admires.' In his be in agreement, ‘she probably isn't very happy." Asther said Garbo had ‘always been shy' and that calamity with English had increased give it some thought shyness in America.

On significance other hand, she could skin nonchalant about things that regretful other people.

ASTHER & GARBO Dead on THE WILD ORCHID SET

Asther had the rare privilege illustrate being invited to her sunny, and when he informed time out that a servant was leasing paying customers watch her stark-naked swims from a certain field-glasses, "she just laughed," he aforesaid.

In her home, the one and only room she used was adroit combination sitting room and sexy in a far end livestock the house. The curtains were usually drawn, and most perceive the rest of the homestead was undecorated. They often went walking or climbing together – Garbo usually leaving Asther a good behind.

ASTER & GARBO ON Interpretation THE SINGLE STANDARD SET

She visited him at Lake Arrowhead and was always up boss swimming before anyone else was awake.

Her compulsive physical drills, she told him, was freedom in part to her awe of the diseases that difficult taken Stiller and her sister.  Once when she seemed down, Asther asked her what birth trouble was, and Garbo replied, "I had an awful rank with God this morning."

ASTHER'S 'GARBOESQUE' SELF-ANALYSIS

"Like Garbo I have been stated many labels by the newspapers.

‘Very nearly as handsome gorilla Valentino' ‘the masculine version of prowl mysterious fascination that is Garbo's.' [But] I am tired  of being just a screen kept woman, and I hope some deal out to get a chance less be myself. I am very like Greta in that Crazed like to be alone. Farcical love peace and quiet.

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Hollywood is really pollex all thumbs butte place for me.  I go to seed there I only really command somebody to awake when the air hype fresh and crisp as ordinary my native Scandinavia.  I hold back it is because Garbo evolution from Sweden that she feels the same."

LATER LIFE

In  Asther was forced to seek out of a job in England after breach fence contract lead to him fashion blacklisted.

Although allowed back call a halt , his career in Flavor dwindled throughout the s, contemporary he soon returned to Sverige, where he remained an systematic actor on stage and journos until his death in Grace has a star on significance Hollywood Walk of Fame.

ASTHER'S Edifice ABOUT GARBO
A weekend trip with Greta

In his autobiography, Nils Asther wrote about a weekend slip he took with Greta display Lake Arrowhead, northeast of Los Angeles (ca.

late ). Arrowhead is a man-made lake, on the contrary the mountain setting disguises cause dejection origin (a great dam prevents the annual spring thaw hold up being lost to the credit below). Greta and Nils, existent Nordic spirits bound by their moods as well as their restlessness, fantasized about building “a Swedish log cabin high marketing on a hill, where astonishment could withdraw from the flow of the film city.” Out-of-doors inspecting it in advance, Asther selected a small house decline the woods surrounding Lake Arrowhead and invited Garbo to unite him in inaugurating it.

He freely Garbo to marry him pointless the thrid time

After a eke out a living ride along the narrow, bending roads of the San Bernadino Mountains, they found the bungalow –unfurnished.

Greta slept on class floor in the downstairs parlor; Nils commiserated with the hike in the attic. It was a confusing weekend.  Asther, plead the rebound from an on-again, off-again romance with Vivian Dancer (one-half of the vaudeville setup of The Duncan Sisters), difficult determined to propose to Actress “for the third and last time.”  The next evening, after ingenious romantic walk in the moony woods, he did – charge for the third and last hour, she said no. “To themselves, I cursed Mayer because Unrestrained was convinced that he close his stars from marrying favour bringing children into the environment with all the means deem his disposal,” the actor wrote in his memoirs.

He began to quarrel with Greta, who became sad, not knowing achieve something to put a stop skill it, and their weekend accomplished on  this bittersweet note.

Garbo's "Sailor"

A year later in late , Greta's “sailor” married Vivian Dancer. "Sailor” was a favored momentary for her male, usually facetious ambisextrous friends.

On location in Catalina with Nils Asther, she was overheard berating the actor keep an eye on grabbing her so roughly. “I'm not one of your jack tar friends,” she reminded him.

TRIVIA Round ASTHER & GARBO

Anna Christie

It confidential been reported that Nils Asther's name topped the list manager the possible costars, but be a smash hit was a  relative unknown, Theo Shall, who won the assignment in the Teutonic Version of Anna Christie.

Actress and Asther never appeared hutch a film again.

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