Einar Hanson

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

Career

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, Hansen 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" (1927), as well as "The Woman on Trial" and "Barbed Wire" both 1927 with Pola Negri, and "Fashions for Women" (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. Barry Paris, in his 1995 biography "Garbo" says that Hanson met Garbo and Stiller at a party where Hanson became intoxicated and drove off on his own, leading to the fatal accident.

External links

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Filmography

* The Woman on Trial (1927)
* Barbed Wire (1927)
* Children of Divorce (1927)
* Fashions for Women (1927)
* The Masked Woman (1927)
* The Lady in Ermine (1927)
* Her Big Night (1926)
* Into Her Kingdom (1926)
* The Joyless Street (1925)
* Takt, tone og tosser (1925)
* Skeppargatan 40 (1925)
* Lumpen und Seide (1925)
* Fra Piazza del Popolo (1925)
* Life in the Country (1924)
* 33.333 (1924)
* Johan Ulfstjerna (1923)
* Gunnar Hedes saga (1923)
* Mälarpirater (1923)
* Hemsöborna (1919)