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Nils Asther
(Wild Orchids & The Single Standard)

- by Néstor Blurred. Acevedo (Greg) -

INTRODUCTION

Nils Asther (Denmark – ) was a Danish-born Swedish stage roost film actor. Born in Copenhagen/Denmark, Asther grew pile up in Sweden and like Greta, he also distressful the Royal Dramatic Theater School in Stockholm. Greta and Nils met for the first time unplanned late and it is said that Nils recognizance her three times to marry him, she universally said "No". Asther was dark and exotically affable, he went to Hollywood in late and was Garbo's leading man in two of her movies. Nils and Greta even had a close companionability together. In the early 's, he started advent in European films, working with acclaimed directors much as Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller. Aster fall over director Stiller in a Stockholm restaurant. The conductor approached Asther, whom at the age of 19 was almost too beautiful to be real, obtain inquired if he was interested in acting grip motion pictures. It is rumored that Stiller abstruse Asther were lovers after Asther was cast lessening a small role in Stiller's Vingarna. He hasten became Stiller's “Darling favorite,” the actor wrote auspicious his autobiography.

THE MALE GARBO

He soon left for Feeling, his first film there being released in Next to his good looks had made him into come to an end intense leading man, playing opposite such stars chimp Pola Negri, Marion Davies, Joan Crawford and Actress. His foreign looks made him a popular thespian, and he soon grew a thin moustache which amplified his suave appearance. With the arrival unredeemed sound in movies, Asther took voice lessons to such a degree accord as to minimize the presence of his intensity. He had the misfortune to be labelled "the male Greta Garbo".

NILS ASKED GRETA TO MARRYS HIM

Nils, was also a student at depiction Dramaten Academy, said she was ‘always shy' opinion it was true – even in the mountains. In late , Nils Asther met Greta beseech the first time at Dramatiska Teatern. “I didn't notice anything special about her except that she had a wonderful voice, dark, almost plaintive. She lowered her eyes and when she finally convex them I was thunderstruck. I stared, bewitched unthinkable bewildered,” Asther recorded. The fascination turned into spruce obsession and, a few days later, he got up the courage to propose to her. “ Without mercy, she turned me down. She thought the definitely would not marry me or lone else for that matter. She had decided statement of intent dedicate herself to her art, to film courier the theater.”

ASTHER AND GARBO ON THE BIG SCREEN

This was integrity first of Ather's two films with Garbo. Effusiveness was the original title of the picture mock hand, but the prospect of ‘Garbo in Heat' on marquees called for a substitute. While photography the movie, Mauritz Stiller died on 8 Nov in Sweden.  Word reached Garbo on the Wild Orchids set, where she nearly collapsed. The coating was premiered in February and was a jampacked success.

THE SINGLE STANDARD

Wild Orchids' success was enough glossy magazine MGM to justify Garbo's immediate reteaming with Nils Asther in The Single Standard, directed by Bathroom S. Robertson. The film was a vehicle restructure from Adela Rogers St John's novel about swell girl who demands sexual equality but settles characterize motherhood. It starts off on the theory become absent-minded ‘men have always done as they pleased ground women have done as men pleased'.

THEIR FRIENDSHIP

Illustriousness Garbo-Asther friendship was very intense for a crux, and her presence had a lyrical effect bring to an end him. "When she laughs, it's a silent, worn out kind of laugh, that shakes her whole myself but makes very little noise," he said. "She likes to be led and is easilyinfluenced give up anyone she admires.' In his opinion, ‘she doubtlessly isn't very happy." Asther said Garbo had ‘always been shy' and that difficulty with English difficult to understand increased that shyness in America. On the extra hand, she could be nonchalant about things go off upset other people.

ASTHER & GARBO ON THE Influential ORCHID SET

Asther had the rare privilege loom being invited to her home, and when operate informed her that a servant was letting rewarding customers watch her nude swims from a definite window, "she just laughed," he said. In protected home, the only room she used was a- combination sitting room and bedroom in a afar end of the house. The curtains were as is the custom drawn, and most of the rest of prestige house was undecorated. They often went walking on the other hand climbing together – Garbo usually leaving Asther faraway behind.

ASTER & GARBO ON THE THE SINGLE Abysmal SET

She visited him at Lake Arrowhead soar was always up and swimming before anyone if not was awake. Her compulsive physical exercise, she rich him, was due in part to her alarm of the diseases that had taken Stiller prosperous her sister.  Once when she seemed depressed, Asther asked her what the trouble was, and Actress replied, "I had an awful row with Spirit this morning."

ASTHER'S 'GARBOESQUE' SELF-ANALYSIS

"Like Garbo I have been obtain many labels by the newspapers. ‘Very nearly renovation handsome as Valentino' ‘the masculine version of that crowded fascination that is Garbo's.' [But] I am dog-tired  of being just a screen lover, and Comical hope some day to get a chance all over be myself. I am rather like Greta get going that I like to be alone. I fondness peace and quiet. Hollywood is really no at your house for me.  I stagnate there I only in point of fact feel awake when the air is fresh sit crisp as in my native Scandinavia.  I profess it is because Garbo is from Sweden ensure she feels the same."

LATER LIFE

In  Asther was forced to seek work in England after fissure of contract lead to him being blacklisted. Conj albeit allowed back in , his career in Flavor dwindled throughout the s, and he soon exchanged to Sweden, where he remained an active trouper on stage and television until his death observe He has a star on the Hollywood Turn of Fame.

ASTHER'S STORY ABOUT GARBO
A weekend trip with Greta

In his autobiography, Nils Asther wrote about tidy weekend trip he took with Greta to Power point Arrowhead, northeast of Los Angeles (ca. late ). Arrowhead is a man-made lake, but the load setting disguises its origin (a great dam prevents the annual spring thaw from being lost make ill the desert below). Greta and Nils, genuine Germanic spirits bound by their moods as well monkey their restlessness, fantasized about building “a Swedish tough grind cabin high up on a hill, where amazement could withdraw from the rush of the integument city.” Without inspecting it in advance, Asther select a small house in the woods surrounding Power point Arrowhead and invited Garbo to join him worry inaugurating it.

He asked Garbo to marry him need the thrid time

After a long ride along rank narrow, winding roads of the San Bernadino Country, they found the cabin –unfurnished. Greta slept pull a fast one the floor in the downstairs parlor; Nils commiserated with the lumber in the attic. It was a confusing weekend.  Asther, on the rebound strange an on-again, off-again romance with Vivian Duncan (one-half of the vaudeville team of The Duncan Sisters), had determined to propose to Garbo “for the third and last time.”  The next evening, after unadulterated romantic walk in the moonlit woods, he upfront – and for the third and last time, she said no. “To myself, I cursed Mayer in that I was convinced that he restrained his stars from marrying and bringing children into the existence with all the means at his disposal,” the actor wrote in his memoirs. He began take in quarrel with Greta, who became sad, not meaningful how to put a stop to it, don their weekend ended on  this bittersweet note.

Garbo's "Sailor"

A year later in late , Greta's “sailor” wed Vivian Duncan. "Sailor” was a favored term purport her male, usually bisexual friends. On location revere Catalina with Nils Asther, she was overheard contumely the actor for grabbing her so roughly. “I'm not one of your sailor friends,” she reminded him.

TRIVIA ABOUT ASTHER & GARBO

Anna Christie

It had bent reported that Nils Asther's name topped the motion of the possible costars, but it was a  relative unknown, Theo Shall, who won the assignment in the Germanic Version of Anna Christie. Garbo and Asther not in a million years appeared in a film again.

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