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Truus van Aalten (Dutch film actress, 1910-1999) meets a fake swan, ca. 1926 - by Alexander Binder (1888 - 1929), Austrian

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"𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨, 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬: '𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐨', '𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨'. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞. 𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭. 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲𝐰𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐧𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞. 𝐈 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. 𝐈 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐩 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐚." -𝐍𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫

Portraits of the uncommonly handsome Swedish actor Nils Asther taken by George Hurrell and Alexander Binder in the 1920s and early-1930s. Born to Swedish parents in Copenhagen, Denmark on January 17th, 1897, Nils was raised in Sweden and got his first acting job in the daring gay-themed Swedish silent movie The Wings (Swedish: Vingarna) in 1916 at the age of nineteen. Launched to fame due to his good looks, talent and screen charisma, Asther starred in a number of European silent pictures over the next decade before moving to Hollywood in 1927 where he quickly found success in leading roles opposite Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies and Barbara Stanwyck. Dubbed "the male Garbo" by the press, Nils found the increased attention of being a Hollywood "matinee idol" greatly intimidating and, like fellow-Swede Greta, he valued his privacy, guarding himself not only for his peace of mind and solitude but also to prevent being outed by the press as a gay man, which would have destroyed his career. At the peak of his Hollywood fame, a "lavender marriage" was quickly arranged in 1930 to actress Vivian Duncan (of "the Duncan Sisters" fame) who'd co-starred with Nils in the movie Topsy and Eva three years earlier. The couple had one daughter during their unhappy union before divorcing in 1932. Nils then embarked on relationships with director Mauritz Stiller, writer Hjalmar Bergman and other male associates as his career faltered in the 1930s. A long-term romance with American sailor Ken DuMain was sparked after a chance encounter on Hollywood Blvd. in the early-1940s and the pair stayed together for a number of years. Continuing to act in British and American movies (though in lesser roles) and making a few television appearances in the 1950s, Asther gave up on Hollywood in 1958 when he returned to Sweden where he appeared in film and stage roles before retiring from acting in 1963. Devoting himself to painting in his later years, Nils lived to be 84 years old, passing away in Stockholm, Sweden on October 13th, 1981.

Alexander Binder - Truus van Aalten

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Alexander Binder (1888–1929) | Lya De Putti in the film Manon Lescaut (1926) by Arthur Robinson, UFA Universum-Film AG.

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