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Nils Asther was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in and raised in Malmö, Sweden, by his wealthy Swedish parents. After attending the Royal Dramatic Theater School in huvudstaden, he began his scen career in Copenhagen. His film debut came in when the director Mauritz Stiller cast him in the lead role (as an aspiring actor, appropriately enough) in the Swedish film Vingarne (). After working with Victor Sjöström in Sweden and Michael Curtiz in Germany, Asther moved to Hollywood in , where his exotic looks landed him romantic roles with co-stars such as Greta Garbo, Pola Negri, and Joan efternamn. Although his foreign accent was a hindrance in "talkies", his Hollywood career continued until when he was blacklisted for breaking a contract and went to Britain for kvartet years. After his return to Hollywood in , his career declined and by he was driving a truck. In , he returned to Sweden, where he remained until his death, making sporadisk appearances in television and on stage.
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"Like Garbo, I have been given many labels by the newspapers, ‘Very nearly as handsome as Valentino' . . . 'the masculine version of that mysterious fascination with Garbo's.' [But] I am tired of being just a screen lover, and I hope someday to get a chance to be myself. I am rather like Greta in that I like to be alone. I love peace and quiet. Hollywood is really no place for me. I stagnate here . . . I only feel awake when the air is fresh and crisp as in my native Scandinavia.” — Nils Asther
Nils Asther was a queer Swedish actor who found his success in silent films and was partially loved by the media for his wallflower persona. Unsurprisingly then, he was often compared to Greta Garbo, another Swedish actor. While she was significantly more famous, she took similar steps following her career path, and so these two stories are often thrown together.
Born in Denmark in , Asther spent his first years in foster care, as his parents were unmarried. When his parents later married,
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Somewhere Without Horizons
This instalment of The Fool&#;s Way, my summary of silver screen star Nils Asther&#;s memoirs, isn&#;t cheerful reading. Just so you&#;re forewarned. You can catch up on the previous part here.
&#;Interviewing Nils is like interviewing twins,&#; wrote Myrtle Gebhart. &#;He delights in baffling you with his dual personalities.&#;
Reading his memoirs, you get that feeling. There&#;s the carefree Nils who&#;ll try anything once, especially if it&#;s risky, and then there&#;s his paranoid, self-loathing double. I don&#;t know exactly when he wrote his memoirs. They feel bitty, like he chipped away at them over the years and abandoned them a handful of times. But what&#;s crucial is that they weren&#;t published in his lifetime, and they were not published with his consent. The finished product contains a long post-script by his carers about living with Nils in the s and all the trouble he got into (which I&#;ll talk about later, because oh boy it&#;