Einar Hanson
Also Known As: Einar Hansen
Biography: From Wikipedia Einar Hanson (June 15, 1899; Stockholm, Sweden – June 3, 1927; Santa Monica, California), also known as Einar Hansen, was a Swedish silent film motion-picture actor. Discovered at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre by director Mauritz Stiller, handsome and sophisticated, he was in 1927 ideally positioned to take over from the late Rudolph Valentino as Hollywood's "great screen lover". Upon his arrival in Hollywood in 1925, along with Stiller and the director's other protegée Greta Garbo, Hanson starred opposite some of the era's leading ladies, including Pola Negri and Corinne Griffith. Hanson was destined for even bigger and better things at Paramount Pictures, who had bought his original five-year contract from Universal Studios. He showed great progress opposite Clara Bow and Esther Ralston in Children of Divorce, as well as The Woman on Trial and Barbed Wire both with Pola Negri, and Fashions for Women (all 1927), directed by Dorothy Arzner. On June 3, 1927, Hanson was on his way home from having dinner with Stiller and Garbo when his car apparently skidded off the road on the Pacific Coast Highway near Topanga Canyon and died on the way to the hospital. He was 27.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: June 14, 1899
Age: 125 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 03, 1927
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Gunnar Hede's Saga
Overview: Gunnar Hede is raised by a strict mother, who wants him to become respectable to match his family’s wealth. He is more interested in his grandfather, who started as an itinerant violin player, but got rich by leading a herd of wild reindeer south to market. He falls for a violinist working with a married couple of traveling performers and renounces his fortune to go with them. He then tries to earn a fortune by driving reindeer to market, but it doesn’t work out and he goes insane. He is finally restored to sanity by the violinist when she returns with the performers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Rags and Silk
Overview: At the center of this social satire is the wealthy and bored couple Irene and Erik. When Erik meets Hilde, who comes from a humble background, one evening in a chic club, he sees an opportunity for the couple to sexually spice up their worn-out relationship and to escape through a ménage à trois.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-01-09
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Livet på landet
Overview: The widower Karl Hawermann and his daughter Louise are forced to leave their home by the ruthless Pomuchelskopp.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1924-09-15
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Hemsöborna
Overview: The widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1919-05-05
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The Woman on Trial
Overview: A story of a woman who committed a murder. In a French court room her life is retold by long flashbacks of her testimony and life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-28
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Barbed Wire
Overview: During WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-09
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Children of Divorce
Overview: A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-25
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The Lady in Ermine
Overview: When her husband marches off to war, Mariana is left in charge of the ancestral castle and is thus on hand when an invading Austrian regiment makes the castle its headquarters.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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The Joyless Street
Overview: In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-03-01
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Mälar Pirates
Overview: Three boys steal a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren. Based on Sigfrid Siwertz's novel.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1923-10-21
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Johan Ulfstjerna
Overview: The story of a man who makes a great sacrifice for his country and for his son. Based on the play of the same title by Tor Hedberg.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1923-12-02
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The Masked Woman
Overview: Baron Tolento lusts for Diane Delatour, his physician's wife, and donates money to their favorite charity, a children's home, in hope of gaining her favor. When Delatour is called away, Tolento inveigles Diane into attending a party at his house. There he threatens to ruin her husband if she does not submit to his demands within three months. Diane retaliates by showing him a letter proving that Tolento has only three months to live, according to a specialist. Delatour learns of his wife's presence at the party from one of the baron's women, and when Tolento makes Diane heir to his fortune, he becomes convinced of her infidelity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-16
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Overview: A shoemaker purchases a lottery note with two friends, and hides it from his wife for safekeeping. He soon learns that their ticket has the winning numbers but is afraid to tell his colleagues it is missing. Based on the play by Algot Sandberg.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1924-02-04
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Skeppargatan 40
Overview: Erhard Malm is studying to become an engineer, but support himself as a tutor at Consul Frendin. The consul's daughter Ruth and Erhard get interested in each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1925-01-05
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Into Her Kingdom
Overview: In Czarist Russia, a young peasant boy is sent to Siberia for insulting the Grand Duchess. Released years later, he joins the fighting to overthrow the royal family. The entire royal family is condemned to death when fighting ceases.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-08
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Fashions for Women
Overview: Celeste de Givray is renowned throughout Europe as the most beautiful and best-dressed model in all Paris. Her press agent DuPont concocts an attention-getting publicity scheme by having Celeste undergo cosmetic surgery, then unveiling her "new" face at a posh fashion show. But thanks to a delay in the surgery, DuPont is forced to hired a substitute for Celeste, a look-alike American girl named Lulu Dooley
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-26
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Mists of the Past
Overview: The year is 1820 and a young, promising artist, Olaf Malm, has settled in Rome, Europe’s centre of art at the time. He is in love with Sigrid, but class differences make their love impossible. Olaf Malm dies in a tragic accident; he allegedly drowns in the Tiber, but his body is never found. Sigrid gives birth to their lovechild, and twenty years later history repeats itself: their son, Henry, who has never known his real parents, loves a woman who is far above him in social rank. Fate brings him back to Rome, where his parents loved and lost each other many years before. (stumfilm.dk)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1925-11-30
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Her Big Night
Overview: Tom Barrett, a motion picture press agent, noting Frances Norcross' resemblance to film star Daphne Dix, offers her passes to the star's personal appearance. While waiting for her fiancé, Johnny Young, Frances is offered $1,000 to impersonate Daphne and successfully appears in her place, assuaging the fears of Myers, a producer, who knows Daphne is with millionaire Harmon on a yacht. Reporter J. Q. Adams has his suspicions aroused and sends a cub reporter to impersonate Daphne's husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-12
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