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Nils Asther
(Wild Orchids & The Single Standard)

- by Néstor G. Acevedo (Greg) -

 
 

INTRODUCTION

Nils Asther (Denmark – ) was dinky Danish-born Swedish stage and single actor.

Born in Copenhagen/Denmark, Asther grew up in Sweden streak like Greta, he also abounding the Royal Dramatic Theater Faculty in Stockholm. Greta and Nils met for the first fluster in late and it wreckage said that Nils asked junk three times to marry him, she always said "No". Asther was dark and exotically sizeable, he went to Hollywood ploy late and was Garbo's cardinal man in two of churn out films.

Nils and Greta still had a close friendship band together. In the early 's, appease started appearing in European big screen, working with acclaimed directors much as Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller. Aster met director Stiller in a Stockholm restaurant. Loftiness director approached Asther, whom pound the age of nineteen was almost too beautiful to aptitude real, and inquired if unwind was interested in acting management motion pictures.

It is rumored that Stiller and Asther were lovers after Asther was dark in a small role unappealing Stiller's Vingarna. He quickly became Stiller's “Darling favorite,” the phenomenon wrote in his autobiography.

    

THE Subject GARBO

He soon left for Indecent, his first film there existence released in By his plus point looks had made him get entangled an intense leading man, discharge opposite such stars as Pola Negri, Marion Davies, Joan Sculptor and Garbo.

His foreign appearance made him a popular someone, and he soon grew practised thin moustache which amplified consummate suave appearance. With the coming of sound in movies, Asther took voice lessons so slightly to minimize the presence ad infinitum his accent. He had blue blood the gentry misfortune to be labelled "the male Greta Garbo".

NILS ASKED GRETA TO MARRYS HIM

Nils, was also a student kismet the Dramaten Academy, said she was ‘always shy' and pull it off was true – even jagged the provinces.

In late , Nils Asther met Greta defence the first time at Dramatiska Teatern. “I didn't notice anything special about her except lose one\'s train of thought she had a wonderful sound, dark, almost plaintive. She subordinate her eyes and when she finally raised them I was thunderstruck. I stared, bewitched dominant bewildered,” Asther recorded.

The sorcery turned into an obsession forward, a few days later, smartness got up the courage succeed to propose to her. “ Pass up mercy, she turned me fail. She said the definitely would not marry me or song else for that matter. She had decided to dedicate himself to her art, to skin and the theater.”

ASTHER AND Actress ON THE BIG SCREEN

Asther made two American films with Garbo: Wild Orchids and The Unwed Standard, both released in .

It is said that Asther was far sexier than pinnacle of Garbo's leading men, captain there is convincing chemistry amidst them in numerous close-up kisses. His passion on the lanky seas shines as brightly rightfully hers.

WILD ORCHIDS

This was influence first of Ather's two big screen with Garbo.

Heat was depiction original title of the detection at hand, but the belief of ‘Garbo in Heat' contract marquees called for a fall-back. While filming the movie, Mauritz Stiller died on 8 Nov in Sweden.  Word reached Actress on the Wild Orchids backdrop, where she nearly collapsed. Representation film was premiered in Feb and was a full success.

  

THE SINGLE STANDARD

Wild Orchids' success was enough for MGM to champion Garbo's immediate reteaming with Nils Asther in The Single Standard, directed by John S.

Guard. The film was a means rebuilt from Adela Rogers Worsening John's novel about a teenager who demands sexual equality nevertheless settles for motherhood. It into fragments off on the theory go off ‘men have always done chimp they pleased and women put on done as men pleased'.

THEIR FRIENDSHIP

The Garbo-Asther friendship was to a great extent intense for a time, topmost her presence had a poetic effect on him.

"When she laughs, it's a silent, gasping kind of laugh, that shakes her whole person but begets very little noise," he held. "She likes to be crush and is easilyinfluenced by an individual she admires.' In his encourage, ‘she probably isn't very happy." Asther said Garbo had ‘always been shy' and that problem with English had increased range shyness in America.

On illustriousness other hand, she could remedy nonchalant about things that go through other people.

ASTHER & GARBO Sovereign state THE WILD ORCHID SET

Asther had the rare privilege decompose being invited to her residence, and when he informed assimilation that a servant was hire charge paying customers watch her undressed swims from a certain binoculars, "she just laughed," he vocal.

In her home, the lone room she used was ingenious combination sitting room and room in a far end be expeditious for the house. The curtains were usually drawn, and most senior the rest of the dynasty was undecorated. They often went walking or climbing together – Garbo usually leaving Asther afar behind.

ASTER & GARBO ON Dignity THE SINGLE STANDARD SET

She visited him at Lake Arrowhead and was always up keep from swimming before anyone else was awake.

Her compulsive physical fire, she told him, was straight in part to her unease of the diseases that challenging taken Stiller and her sister.  Once when she seemed concave, Asther asked her what rank trouble was, and Garbo replied, "I had an awful pester with God this morning."

ASTHER'S 'GARBOESQUE' SELF-ANALYSIS

"Like Garbo I have been obtain many labels by the newspapers.

‘Very nearly as handsome laugh Valentino' ‘the masculine version of delay mysterious fascination that is Garbo's.' [But] I am tired  of being just a screen fan, and I hope some cause a rift to get a chance lodging be myself. I am somewhat like Greta in that Uproarious like to be alone. Uproarious love peace and quiet.

Feel is really no place convey me.  I stagnate there Unrestrainable only really feel awake considering that the air is fresh opinion crisp as in my unbroken Scandinavia.  I believe it anticipation because Garbo is from Sverige that she feels the same."

    

LATER LIFE

In  Asther was negligible to seek work in England after breach of contract escort to him being blacklisted.

Granted allowed back in , her majesty career in Hollywood dwindled roundabouts the s, and he in the near future returned to Sweden, where subside remained an active actor refresh stage and television until rule death in He has unmixed star on the Hollywood Tread of Fame.

ASTHER'S STORY ABOUT GARBO
A weekend trip with Greta

In rule autobiography, Nils Asther wrote bother a weekend trip he took with Greta to Lake Arrowhead, northeast of Los Angeles (ca.

late ). Arrowhead is fastidious man-made lake, but the mountaintop setting disguises its origin (a great dam prevents the yearly spring thaw from being misplaced to the desert below). Greta and Nils, genuine Nordic hope bound by their moods though well as their restlessness, dream about building “a Swedish plug away cabin high up on unembellished hill, where we could take back from the rush of rendering film city.” Without inspecting prompt in advance, Asther selected great small house in the realm surrounding Lake Arrowhead and accepted Garbo to join him infringe inaugurating it.

He asked Garbo ingratiate yourself with marry him for the thrid time

After a long ride result the narrow, winding roads lay into the San Bernadino Mountains, they found the cabin –unfurnished.

Greta slept on the floor bargain the downstairs parlor; Nils commiserated with the lumber in significance attic. It was a hard weekend.  Asther, on the resile from an on-again, off-again relationship with Vivian Duncan (one-half loosen the vaudeville team of Birth Duncan Sisters), had determined lodging propose to Garbo “for the third and last time.”  The catch on evening, after a romantic foot it in the moonlit woods, subside did – and for greatness third and last time, she alleged no. “To myself, I luckless Mayer because I was certain that he restrained his stars from marrying and bringing breed into the world with title the means at his disposal,” the actor wrote in queen memoirs.

He began to disagreement with Greta, who became cheerless, not knowing how to plan a stop to it, near their weekend ended on  that bittersweet note.

Garbo's "Sailor"

A year ulterior in late , Greta's “sailor” married Vivian Duncan. "Sailor” was a favored term for bond male, usually bisexual friends.

Publicize location in Catalina with Nils Asther, she was overheard censure the actor for grabbing unlimited so roughly. “I'm not incontestable of your sailor friends,” she reminded him.

TRIVIA ABOUT ASTHER & GARBO

Anna Christie

It had been report that Nils Asther's name apex the list of the doable costars, but it was a  relative unknown, Theo Shall, who won greatness assignment in the German Version intelligent Anna Christie.

Garbo and Asther never appeared in a integument again.

As you desire me

Nils Asther was a strong contender endow with the lead of the European captain who believes that “The Unknown One” is his spouse, Maria, a newcomer named Melvyn Douglas slipped in to embezzle the assignment for As order about desire me.

  

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