Einar Hanson

Einar Hanson

Born: June 14, 1899
Died: June 3, 1927
in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
From Wikipedia

Einar Hanson (June 15, 1899; Stockholm, Sweden – June 3, 1927; Santa Monica, California), also known as Einar Hansen, was a Swedish silent film motion-picture actor.

Discovered at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre by director Mauritz Stiller, handsome and sophisticated, he was in 1927 ideally positioned to take over from the late Rudolph Valentino as Hollywood's "great screen lover".

Upon his arrival in Hollywood in 1925, along with Stiller and the director's other protegée Greta Garbo, Hanson starred opposite some of the era's leading ladies, including Pola Negri and Corinne Griffith.

Hanson was destined for even bigger and better things at Paramount Pictures, who had bought his original five-year contract from Universal Studios. He showed great progress opposite Clara Bow and Esther Ralston in Children of Divorce, as well as The Woman on Trial and Barbed Wire both with Pola Negri, and Fashions for Women (all 1927), directed by Dorothy Arzner.

On June 3, 1927, Hanson was on his way home from having dinner with Stiller and Garbo when his car apparently skidded off the road on the Pacific Coast Highway near Topanga Canyon and died on the way to the hospital. He was 27.

Movies for Einar Hanson...

The Woman on Trial
Title: The Woman on Trial
Character: Pierre Bouton
Released: October 28, 1927
Type: Movie
A story of a woman who committed a murder. In a French court room her life is retold by long flashbacks of her testimony and life.
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Barbed Wire
Title: Barbed Wire
Character: André Moreau
Released: September 9, 1927
Type: Movie
During WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.
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Children of Divorce
Title: Children of Divorce
Character: Prince Ludovico de Saxe
Released: April 25, 1927
Type: Movie
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.
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Fashions for Women
Title: Fashions for Women
Character: Raoul de Bercy
Released: March 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Celeste de Givray is renowned throughout Europe as the most beautiful and best-dressed model in all Paris. Her press agent DuPont concocts an attention-getting publicity scheme by having Celeste undergo cosmetic surgery, then unveiling her "new" face at a posh fashion show. But thanks to a delay in the surgery, DuPont is forced to hired a substitute for Celeste, a look-alike American girl named Lulu Dooley
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The Masked Woman
Title: The Masked Woman
Character: Dr. René Delatour (as Einar Hansen)
Released: January 16, 1927
Type: Movie
Baron Tolento lusts for Diane Delatour, his physician's wife, and donates money to their favorite charity, a children's home, in hope of gaining her favor. When Delatour is called away, Tolento inveigles Diane into attending a party at his house. There he threatens to ruin her husband if she does not submit to his demands within three months. Diane retaliates by showing him a letter proving that Tolento has only three months to live, according to a specialist. Delatour learns of his wife's presence at the party from one of the baron's women, and when Tolento makes Diane heir to his fortune, he becomes convinced of her infidelity.
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The Lady in Ermine
Title: The Lady in Ermine
Character: Adrian Murillo
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
When her husband marches off to war, Mariana is left in charge of the ancestral castle and is thus on hand when an invading Austrian regiment makes the castle its headquarters.
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Into Her Kingdom
Title: Into Her Kingdom
Character: Stepan
Released: August 8, 1926
Type: Movie
In Czarist Russia, a young peasant boy is sent to Siberia for insulting the Grand Duchess. Released years later, he joins the fighting to overthrow the royal family. The entire royal family is condemned to death when fighting ceases.
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Mists of the Past
Title: Mists of the Past
Character: Henry Vernon
Released: November 30, 1925
Type: Movie
The year is 1820 and a young, promising artist, Olaf Malm, has settled in Rome, Europe’s centre of art at the time. He is in love with Sigrid, but class differences make their love impossible. Olaf Malm dies in a tragic accident; he allegedly drowns in the Tiber, but his body is never found. Sigrid gives birth to their lovechild, and twenty years later history repeats itself: their son, Henry, who has never known his real parents, loves a woman who is far above him in social rank. Fate brings him back to Rome, where his parents loved and lost each other many years before. (stumfilm.dk)
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Joyless Street
Title: Joyless Street
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
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Rags and Silk
Title: Rags and Silk
Character: Werner, Erik's brother
Released: January 9, 1925
Type: Movie
At the center of this social satire is the wealthy and bored couple Irene and Erik. When Erik meets Hilde, who comes from a humble background, one evening in a chic club, he sees an opportunity for the couple to sexually spice up their worn-out relationship and to escape through a ménage à trois.
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Skeppargatan 40
Title: Skeppargatan 40
Released: January 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Erhard Malm is studying to become an engineer, but support himself as a tutor at Consul Frendin. The consul's daughter Ruth and Erhard get interested in each other.
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Livet på landet
Title: Livet på landet
Released: September 15, 1924
Type: Movie
The widower Karl Hawermann and his daughter Louise are forced to leave their home by the ruthless Pomuchelskopp.
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33.333
Title: 33.333
Released: February 4, 1924
Type: Movie
A shoemaker purchases a lottery note with two friends, and hides it from his wife for safekeeping. He soon learns that their ticket has the winning numbers but is afraid to tell his colleagues it is missing. Based on the play by Algot Sandberg.
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Johan Ulfstjerna
Title: Johan Ulfstjerna
Character: Helge Ulfstjerna
Released: December 2, 1923
Type: Movie
The story of a man who makes a great sacrifice for his country and for his son. Based on the play of the same title by Tor Hedberg.
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Mälar Pirates
Title: Mälar Pirates
Character: Georg Schalén
Released: October 21, 1923
Type: Movie
Three boys steal a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren. Based on Sigfrid Siwertz's novel.
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Gunnar Hede's Saga
Title: Gunnar Hede's Saga
Character: Gunnar Hede
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Gunnar Hede is raised by a strict mother, who wants him to become respectable to match his family’s wealth. He is more interested in his grandfather, who started as an itinerant violin player, but got rich by leading a herd of wild reindeer south to market. He falls for a violinist working with a married couple of traveling performers and renounces his fortune to go with them. He then tries to earn a fortune by driving reindeer to market, but it doesn’t work out and he goes insane. He is finally restored to sanity by the violinist when she returns with the performers.
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Hemsöborna
Title: Hemsöborna
Released: May 5, 1919
Type: Movie
The widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson.