Greta nissen biography
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Nissen, Greta, 1906-1988
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Greta Nissen; Film Beauty From Norway
Greta Nissen, the Scandinavian beauty whose accent cost her one of Hollywood’s biggest roles, has died at her home in Montecito, it was learned this week.
She was 82 when she died of complications of Parkinson’s disease May 15. Her husband, retired manufacturer Stuart D. Eckert, said he had not reported her death because he and his wife had not been interested in publicity since she retired from the screen after their marriage in 1941.
Despite that, he added, “she continues to get (fan) letters.”
Born in Norway as Grethe Ruzt-Nissen, Miss Nissen had starred in several silent films when producer Howard Hughes decided to make her the blonde siren in “Hell’s Angels.” However, when he decided to film the World War I aviation saga as a sound picture, Miss Nissen’s accent was deemed inappropriate and Jean Harlow was given the part.
First discovered by Paramount pictures in the stage production “Beggar on Horseback,” Miss Nissen appeared in more than two dozen films from 1925 on, among them “A Wife,” “The Wanderer,” “Blind Alleys,” “Fazil,” “Transatlantic,” “Honours Easy” and “Cafe Colette.”
She is also survived by her son and a grandson.
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Greta Nissen
Norwegian-American actress (1906–1988)
Greta Nissen | |
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Nissen in 1925 | |
| Born | Grethe Rüzt-Nissen (1906-01-30)January 30, 1906 Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway |
| Died | May 15, 1988(1988-05-15) (aged 82) Montecito, California, U.S. |
| Years active | 1923–1937 |
| Spouses | Weldon Heyburn (m. 1932; ann. 1936)Stuart D. Eckert (m. 1941) |
| Children | 1 |
Greta Nissen (born Grethe Rüzt-Nissen; 30 January 1906 – 15 May 1988)[1] was a Norwegian-American film and stage actress.
Stage and screen actress
[edit]Born Grethe Rüzt-Nissen in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway, Nissen was originally a dancer. While still a student at the company's school in Copenhagen, she danced with the Royal Danish Ballet,[2] debuted as a solo ballerina on the National Theatre in 1922. She toured in Norway and appeared in several Danish films.
Nissen made her Broadway debut as a ballerina in 1924. She had studied ballet with Michel Fokine. In early 1924, she came as a member of a Danish ballet troupe to New York, where she was soon hired to do a larger dance number for George S. Kaufman in the musical Beggar on Horseback.[3] She was disc