Greta Nissen

Greta Nissen

Born: January 30, 1906
Died: May 15, 1988
in Oslo, Norway
Greta Nissen, born Grethe Rüzt-Nissen, was a Norwegian born American dancer, stage and screen actress. Greta made her Broadway debut as a ballerina in 1924. She was discovered by film producer Jesse L. Lasky of Paramount Pictures, and would appear in more than twenty feature films.

Movies for Greta Nissen...

Café Colette
Title: Café Colette
Character: Vanda Muroff
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A diplomat falls in love with an exiled Russian princess.
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Honours Easy
Title: Honours Easy
Character: Ursula Barton
Released: July 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Unhinged art dealer William Barton seeks revenge on a man who ruined his career years ago. He does so by attempting to frame the man's son for the theft of $2,500 from the safe in his gallery. However the son has an alibi in Barton's wife, with whom he is having an affair.
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The Luck of a Sailor
Title: The Luck of a Sailor
Character: Queen Helena
Released: April 26, 1934
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his country and marry an heiress. Fortunately, his first bride has fallen for an army officer and is happy to have her royal marriage annulled.
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On Secret Service
Title: On Secret Service
Character: Marchesa Marcella Galdi
Released: December 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.
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Red Wagon
Title: Red Wagon
Character: Zara
Released: December 6, 1933
Type: Movie
Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
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Life in the Raw
Title: Life in the Raw
Character: Belle
Released: July 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Adventure ensues as Judy Halloway arrives in Arizona to visit her brother, Tom.
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Melody Cruise
Title: Melody Cruise
Character: Elsa Von Rader
Released: June 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
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Best of Enemies
Title: Best of Enemies
Character: The Blonde
Released: June 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Buddy Rogers and Marian Nixon playing the grown children of feuding German-Americans Frank Morgan and Joseph Cawthorn. Romance blossoms between Rogers and Nixon, while Morgan and Cawthorn continue muttering Teutonic imprecations at one another.
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The Circus Queen Murder
Title: The Circus Queen Murder
Character: Josie La Tour
Released: April 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a calm oasis, but when a small time circus rolls into town they soon find themselves caught up in a sordid tale of marital infidelity, murder, cruelty to animals, and cannibalism.
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The Unwritten Law
Title: The Unwritten Law
Character: Fifi La Rue
Released: November 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician.
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Rackety Rax
Title: Rackety Rax
Character: Voine
Released: October 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.
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The Silent Witness
Title: The Silent Witness
Character: Nora Selmer
Released: February 7, 1932
Type: Movie
A London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a lover (Greta Nissen).
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Good Sport
Title: Good Sport
Character: Peggy Bums
Released: December 12, 1931
Type: Movie
Marilyn Parker decides not to accompany her husband Rex on his business trip to Europe when she receives a surprise visit from her mother.
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Ambassador Bill
Title: Ambassador Bill
Character: Countess Ilka
Released: November 13, 1931
Type: Movie
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.
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Transatlantic
Title: Transatlantic
Character: Sigrid Carline
Released: August 19, 1931
Type: Movie
As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy, the daughter of immigrant lens grinder Rudolph Kramer. In trying to recover some valuable securities stolen from banker Henry Graham, Greer finds himself in the middle of a fierce gun battle in the ship's engine room. Meanwhile, Graham, who has been cheating on his wife Kay with sexy dancer Sigrid Carline, is murdered by person or persons unknown.
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Women of All Nations
Title: Women of All Nations
Character: Elsa
Released: May 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sweden and compete for the love of Else. Next they go to Nicaragua and help earthquake victims. Then to Egypt where Else is now in Prince Hassan's harem.
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The Butter and Egg Man
Title: The Butter and Egg Man
Character: Mary Martin
Released: September 22, 1928
Type: Movie
Peter Jones is a young man who arrives on Broadway from Chillicothe, Ohio, hoping to invest $20,000 in a play and turn a profit sufficient to buy a local hotel back home. He is conned by Joe Lehman and Jack McClure into backing their play with a 49-percent stake. The play opens out-of-town in Syracuse and bombs. Lehman and McClure want out, and Jones buys them out
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Fazil
Title: Fazil
Character: Fabienne
Released: June 4, 1928
Type: Movie
An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.
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Blonde or Brunette
Title: Blonde or Brunette
Character: Fanny
Released: January 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Adolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage.
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The Popular Sin
Title: The Popular Sin
Character: La Belle Toulaise
Released: November 22, 1926
Type: Movie
Philandering husband George Montfort purchases railroad tickets for a weekend tryst in the mountains with his latest paramour. When his wife Yvonne finds the tickets, George hastily explains that they were bought as an anniversary present for her. Yvonne doesn't believe George, but she decides to use her ticket anyway, while George remains behind in Paris on "business."
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The Lady of the Harem
Title: The Lady of the Harem
Character: Pervaneh
Released: November 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Rafi arrives in the city in search of Pervaneh who was taken by the Sultan. He is joined by Hassan the confectioner. Rafi is captured by the Sultan, but Hassan leads a surprise attack on the palace and the lovers are united.
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The Love Thief
Title: The Love Thief
Character: Princess Flavia Eugenia Marie
Released: June 13, 1926
Type: Movie
To avert war between their countries an official marriage is arranged between Crown Prince Boris of Moraine and Princess Flavia of Norvia. Prince Karl of Norvia sees in the alliance an opportunity to gain control of both kingdoms but upon visiting Boris finds him unyielding and independent. Flavia, shedding her stately dignity in the palace garden, is accosted by the flirtatious Boris, who believes her to be the princess' cousin; and falling in love, he realizes that he cannot go through with the planned marriage.
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The Lucky Lady
Title: The Lucky Lady
Character: Princess Antoinette
Released: April 25, 1926
Type: Movie
Convent-bred to assume her position of nobility when the time comes, Princess Antoinette plays hooky from school one day to attend a theatrical performance. Here she meets a handsome young American, and it's love at first sight. Meanwhile, in the Princess' home country, the Prime Minister plots to quell a rebellion by arranging a marriage between Antoinette and the Grand Duke.
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The King On Main Street
Title: The King On Main Street
Character: Therese
Released: October 24, 1925
Type: Movie
A European Ruler falls in love with an American.
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The Wanderer
Title: The Wanderer
Character: Tisha
Released: August 19, 1925
Type: Movie
Jether, a shepherd, is lured from his home by Tisha, priestess of the goddess Ishtar. He journeys to the city of Babylon, where he lavishes Tisha with gifts and spends his share of his father's wealth on riotous living.
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In the Name of Love
Title: In the Name of Love
Character: Marie Dufrayne
Released: August 10, 1925
Type: Movie
Naturalized American Raoul Melnotte travels from Chicago to his native France in search of his childhood sweetheart, Marie Dufrayne.