Greta Nissen
Also Known As: Grethe Rüzt-Nissen
Biography: Greta Nissen, born Grethe Rüzt-Nissen, was a Norwegian born American dancer, stage and screen actress. Greta made her Broadway debut as a ballerina in 1924. She was discovered by film producer Jesse L. Lasky of Paramount Pictures, and would appear in more than twenty feature films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oslo, Norway
Adult: No
Birthday: January 30, 1906
Age: 119 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 15, 1988
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Honours Easy
Overview: Unhinged art dealer William Barton seeks revenge on a man who ruined his career years ago. He does so by attempting to frame the man's son for the theft of $2,500 from the safe in his gallery. However the son has an alibi in Barton's wife, with whom he is having an affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-31
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Café Colette
Overview: A diplomat falls in love with an exiled Russian princess.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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In the Name of Love
Overview: Naturalized American Raoul Melnotte travels from Chicago to his native France in search of his childhood sweetheart, Marie Dufrayne.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-10
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The Unwritten Law
Overview: A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-26
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The Lady of the Harem
Overview: Rafi arrives in the city in search of Pervaneh who was taken by the Sultan. He is joined by Hassan the confectioner. Rafi is captured by the Sultan, but Hassan leads a surprise attack on the palace and the lovers are united.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-11-01
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Transatlantic
Overview: As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy, the daughter of immigrant lens grinder Rudolph Kramer. In trying to recover some valuable securities stolen from banker Henry Graham, Greer finds himself in the middle of a fierce gun battle in the ship's engine room. Meanwhile, Graham, who has been cheating on his wife Kay with sexy dancer Sigrid Carline, is murdered by person or persons unknown.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-19
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Fazil
Overview: An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-04
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Ambassador Bill
Overview: An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-13
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The Circus Queen Murder
Overview: Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a calm oasis, but when a small time circus rolls into town they soon find themselves caught up in a sordid tale of marital infidelity, murder, cruelty to animals, and cannibalism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-10
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Blonde or Brunette
Overview: Adolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-08
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Women of All Nations
Overview: Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sweden and compete for the love of Else. Next they go to Nicaragua and help earthquake victims. Then to Egypt where Else is now in Prince Hassan's harem.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-31
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Red Wagon
Overview: Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-06
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Good Sport
Overview: Marilyn Parker decides not to accompany her husband Rex on his business trip to Europe when she receives a surprise visit from her mother.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-12
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The Butter and Egg Man
Overview: Peter Jones is a young man who arrives on Broadway from Chillicothe, Ohio, hoping to invest $20,000 in a play and turn a profit sufficient to buy a local hotel back home. He is conned by Joe Lehman and Jack McClure into backing their play with a 49-percent stake. The play opens out-of-town in Syracuse and bombs. Lehman and McClure want out, and Jones buys them out
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-22
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Life in the Raw
Overview: Adventure ensues as Judy Halloway arrives in Arizona to visit her brother, Tom.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-07
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The Silent Witness
Overview: A London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a lover (Greta Nissen).
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-07
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Best of Enemies
Overview: Buddy Rogers and Marian Nixon playing the grown children of feuding German-Americans Frank Morgan and Joseph Cawthorn. Romance blossoms between Rogers and Nixon, while Morgan and Cawthorn continue muttering Teutonic imprecations at one another.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-22
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The King On Main Street
Overview: A European Ruler falls in love with an American.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-24
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The Lucky Lady
Overview: Convent-bred to assume her position of nobility when the time comes, Princess Antoinette plays hooky from school one day to attend a theatrical performance. Here she meets a handsome young American, and it's love at first sight. Meanwhile, in the Princess' home country, the Prime Minister plots to quell a rebellion by arranging a marriage between Antoinette and the Grand Duke.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-25
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Melody Cruise
Overview: A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-22
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The Luck of a Sailor
Overview: In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his country and marry an heiress. Fortunately, his first bride has fallen for an army officer and is happy to have her royal marriage annulled.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-26
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Rackety Rax
Overview: Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-23
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The Wanderer
Overview: Jether, a shepherd, is lured from his home by Tisha, priestess of the goddess Ishtar. He journeys to the city of Babylon, where he lavishes Tisha with gifts and spends his share of his father's wealth on riotous living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-19
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On Secret Service
Overview: Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-15
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The Love Thief
Overview: To avert war between their countries an official marriage is arranged between Crown Prince Boris of Moraine and Princess Flavia of Norvia. Prince Karl of Norvia sees in the alliance an opportunity to gain control of both kingdoms but upon visiting Boris finds him unyielding and independent. Flavia, shedding her stately dignity in the palace garden, is accosted by the flirtatious Boris, who believes her to be the princess' cousin; and falling in love, he realizes that he cannot go through with the planned marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-13
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The Popular Sin
Overview: Philandering husband George Montfort purchases railroad tickets for a weekend tryst in the mountains with his latest paramour. When his wife Yvonne finds the tickets, George hastily explains that they were bought as an anniversary present for her. Yvonne doesn't believe George, but she decides to use her ticket anyway, while George remains behind in Paris on "business."
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-22
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Luck
Overview: Old Lund is determined to make his granddaughter Lise/Liz a great dancer. He teaches dance classes in their attic home, accompanied by their neighbours, Pat and Patachon, playing the flute and violin. Joy fills the household when Lise secures an engagement at the Grand Theatre, but acquiring the expensive costumes she needs becomes a financial burden. Pat and Patachon secretly decide to raise the necessary funds by selling Patachon’s skeleton to the Zoological Museum. (Stumfilm.dk)
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Original Language: da
Release Date: 1924-03-10
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The Refound Daughter
Overview: Summer has arrived, and people are fleeing the sun-scorched, stony streets of the city. Pat and Patachon also leave the stifling streets behind to spend the summer in the countryside. Armed with a homemade camera, they hope to earn a living by taking photographs, though their efforts are not particularly successful. By chance, they come across an inn owned by the formidable Mother Hulda. She quickly sniffs out their attempt to make their escape without paying their bill, and while Patachon is forced to stay as collateral, Pat sets off to make some money. He becomes the subject of many unpleasant mishaps along the way, while Patachon is coerced into becoming engaged to Hulda and gets entangled in a conflict between Hulda, her daughter Grethe, and Grethe’s boyfriend Erik. (Stumfilm.dk)
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Original Language: da
Release Date: 1923-09-24
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