Picture of the day: hand tinted card

Nils Asther, hand tinted (colorised) film star card by Ross Verlag, Berlin

Original photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull for MGM Studios, c 1920s

Picture of the day: photo by Clarence Sinclair Bull

Nils Asther, photo by Clarence Sinclair Bull for MGM Studios c 1928

Picture of the day: that white suit again

More pictures of Nils Asther in that rather wonderful white suit.

I've just noticed this is a different white suit. Even more dashing.

I'm guessing these photos are from the early 1930s. I don't know which film(s) he is promoting.

Picture of the day: Chinese general 1933

Walter Connolly, unnamed actress, and Nils Asther in The Bitter Tea of General Yen, 1933

for more about this film (and about Asther's 'Chinese' makeup) click here

Picture of the day: 1929 prizefighter, sailor, painter

 Nils Asther on the set of The Single Standard, 1929

more about this film (review coming eventually)

Asther plays Packy Cannon 

Greta Garbo, Nils Asther in The Single Standard

(I love this film.)

Picture of the day: dinner jacket, 1934

Nils Asther, promotional photo for Madame Spy, 1934, Universal

for more about the film Madame Spy with Nils Asther and Fay Wray, click here

Picture of the day: sailing with Garbo, 1929

Greta Garbo, Nils Asther in Wild Orchids, 1929

Asther plays the Prince de Gace, who seduces Garbo away from her older husband while on board ship sailing to Java.

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