EINAR HANSON

Original 1927 8 7/8 inch x 6 7/8 inch Paramount Photogravure Portrait of EINAR HANSON.

Einar Hanson (1899 – 1927) 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 protégée 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 in “Children of Divorce”, “The Woman on Trial”, “Barbed Wire” 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 Greta Garbo when his car apparently skidded off the road on the Pacific Coast Highway near Topanga Canyon. He died on the way to the hospital.

The overall print size is 12 1/4 inch x 8 1/2 inch.

The portrait is in fine condition with facsimile signature.