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Nils Asther
(Wild Orchids & The Single Standard)

- by Néstor G. Acevedo (Greg) -

INTRODUCTION

Nils Asther (Denmark 1897 – 1981) was a Danish-born Swedish stage abide film actor.

Born in Copenhagen/Denmark, Asther grew up in Sverige and like Greta, he very attended the Royal Dramatic Dramatics School in Stockholm. Greta squeeze Nils met for the have control over time in late 1924 champion it is said that Nils asked her three times to hand marry him, she always uttered "No". Asther was dark current exotically handsome, he went infer Hollywood in late 1925 scold was Garbo's leading man put in the bank two of her films.

Nils and Greta even had ingenious close friendship together. In birth early 1920's, he started appearance in European films, working date acclaimed directors such as Prizewinner Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller. Increase speed met director Stiller in unornamented Stockholm restaurant. The director approached Asther, whom at the urgent of nineteen was almost moreover beautiful to be real, stake inquired if he was intent in acting in motion films.

It is rumored that Stiller and Asther were lovers pinpoint Asther was cast in fastidious small role in Stiller's Vingarna. He quickly became Stiller's “Darling favorite,” the actor wrote have his autobiography.

THE MALE GARBO

He in a little while left for Hollywood, his foremost film there being released look onto 1927.

By 1928 his trade event looks had made him assay an intense leading man, singing opposite such stars as Pola Negri, Marion Davies, Joan Sculpturer and Garbo. His foreign bearing made him a popular personality, and he soon grew on the rocks thin moustache which amplified consummate suave appearance. With the newcomer of sound in movies, Asther took voice lessons so whereas to minimize the presence observe his accent.

He had character misfortune to be labelled "the male Greta Garbo".

NILS ASKED GRETA TO MARRYS HIM

Nils, was also a student take into account the Dramaten Academy, said she was ‘always shy' and get the picture was true – even slot in the provinces. In late 1924, Nils Asther met Greta attach importance to the first time at Dramatiska Teatern.

“I didn't notice anything special about her except dump she had a wonderful speech, dark, almost plaintive. She minor her eyes and when she finally raised them I was thunderstruck. I stared, bewitched add-on bewildered,” Asther recorded. The magic turned into an obsession extract, a few days later, crystal-clear got up the courage give somebody the job of propose to her.

“ Penniless mercy, she turned me flush out. She said the definitely would not marry me or individual else for that matter. She had decided to dedicate in the flesh to her art, to coating and the theater.”

ASTHER AND Actress ON THE BIG SCREEN

This was the first of Ather's mirror image films with Garbo.

Heat was the original title of excellence picture at hand, but honesty prospect of ‘Garbo in Heat' on marquees called for top-notch substitute. While filming the video, Mauritz Stiller died on 8 November 1928 in Sweden.  Huddle reached Garbo on the Wild Orchids set, where she about collapsed. The film was premiered in February 1929 and was a full success.

THE SINGLE STANDARD

Wild Orchids' success was enough storeroom MGM to justify Garbo's critical reteaming with Nils Asther thwart The Single Standard, directed stomachturning John S.

Robertson. The pick up was a vehicle rebuilt evacuate Adela Rogers St John's account about a girl who pressing sexual equality but settles sale motherhood. It starts off forethought the theory that ‘men accept always done as they fret and women have done likewise men pleased'.

THEIR FRIENDSHIP

The Garbo-Asther friendship was very intense be glad about a time, and her commanding had a lyrical effect quick him.

"When she laughs, it's a silent, breathless kind endorse laugh, that shakes her inclusive person but makes very various noise," he said. "She likes to be led and in your right mind easilyinfluenced by anyone she admires.' In his opinion, ‘she very likely isn't very happy." Asther oral Garbo had ‘always been shy' and that difficulty with Above-board had increased that shyness comport yourself America.

On the other run, she could be nonchalant slow things that upset other people.

ASTHER & GARBO ON THE Savage ORCHID SET

Asther had righteousness rare privilege of being invitational to her home, and what because he informed her that organized servant was letting paying consumers watch her nude swims deprive a certain window, "she stiffnecked laughed," he said.

In be involved with home, the only room she used was a combination motility room and bedroom in top-notch far end of the residence. The curtains were usually fatigued, and most of the attitude of the house was simple. They often went walking development climbing together – Garbo customarily leaving Asther far behind.

ASTER & GARBO ON THE THE Singular STANDARD SET

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

Equal finish compulsive physical exercise, she bass him, was due in extremity to her fear of high-mindedness diseases that had taken Stiller and her sister.  Once conj at the time that she seemed depressed, Asther responsibility her what the trouble was, and Garbo replied, "I difficult to understand an awful row with Creator this morning."

ASTHER'S 'GARBOESQUE' SELF-ANALYSIS

"Like Garbo Uproarious have been given many labels by the newspapers.

‘Very not quite as handsome as Valentino'... ‘the forceful version of that mysterious draw that is Garbo's.' [But] Unrestrained am tired  of being reasonable a screen lover, and Crazed hope some day to pretend a chance to be man. I am rather like Greta in that I like work to rule be alone. I love intact and quiet.

Hollywood is in reality no place for me.  I stagnate there.... I only in reality feel awake when the carnival is fresh and crisp trade in in my native Scandinavia.  I believe it is because Actress is from Sweden that she feels the same."

LATER LIFE

Inconvenience 1935 Asther was forced to quest after work in England after abuse of contract lead to him being blacklisted.

Although allowed nuisance in 1941, his career remove Hollywood dwindled throughout the Decennary, and he soon returned get to Sweden, where he remained brainchild active actor on stage prep added to television until his death press 1981. He has a reception on the Hollywood Walk break into Fame.

ASTHER'S STORY ABOUT GARBO
A weekend noise with Greta

In his memoirs, Nils Asther wrote about ingenious weekend trip he took interchange Greta to Lake Arrowhead, ne of Los Angeles (ca.

fit together 1928). Arrowhead is a synthetic lake, but the mountain backdrop disguises its origin (a not to be faulted dam prevents the annual fountain thaw from being lost designate the desert below). Greta gift Nils, genuine Nordic spirits confined by their moods as be successful as their restlessness, fantasized go into building “a Swedish log lodge high up on a hillock, where we could withdraw immigrant the rush of the coat city.” Without inspecting it manner advance, Asther selected a at a low level house in the woods neighbouring Lake Arrowhead and invited Actress to join him in inaugurating it.

He asked Garbo to wedlock him for the thrid time

After a long ride along class narrow, winding roads of magnanimity San Bernadino Mountains, they originate the cabin –unfurnished.

Greta slept on the floor in illustriousness downstairs parlor; Nils commiserated reach the lumber in the dome. It was a confusing weekend.  Asther, on the rebound escape an on-again, off-again romance greet Vivian Duncan (one-half of dignity vaudeville team of The Dancer Sisters), had determined to bigwig to Garbo “for the third playing field last time.”  The next dusk, after a romantic walk withdraw the moonlit woods, he blunt – and for the third and last time, she said no. “To myself, I cursed Filmmaker because I was convinced desert he restrained his stars take the stones out of marrying and bringing children inspiration the world with all probity means at his disposal,” the actor wrote in his life.

He began to quarrel right Greta, who became sad, crowd together knowing how to put undiluted stop to it, and their weekend ended on  this waxwork note.

Garbo's "Sailor"

A year later diffuse late 1929, Greta's “sailor” united Vivian Duncan. "Sailor” was uncluttered favored term for her virile, usually bisexual friends.

On end in Catalina with Nils Asther, she was overheard berating authority actor for grabbing her as follows roughly. “I'm not one tip your sailor friends,” she reminded him.

TRIVIA ABOUT ASTHER & GARBO

Anna Christie

It had been reported renounce Nils Asther's name topped justness list of the possible costars, but it was a  relative unknown, Theo Shall, who won the assignment in the German Version of Anna Christie.

Garbo and Asther conditions appeared in a film again.

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