6 Best Anna Q. Nilsson Movies

By Vlad Zakh · May 5, 2026

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Anna Q. Nilsson brought a striking, versatile presence to early Hollywood and was one of the silent era’s most in-demand leading ladies. Seven Keys to Baldpate has a novelist’s 24-hour writing bet disrupted at an isolated inn, Soldiers of Fortune defends a South American mine from revolution, The Luck of the Irish complicates an engineer’s romance, and The 13th Commandment tempts a shopgirl with fine clothes. The Trail to Yesterday and Barbara Frietchie round out the list.

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The 13th Commandment (1920)

TMDB ★ 5.4

Anna Q. Nilsson appears in this silent drama about a poor shopgirl whose desperate desire for fine clothes leads her toward temptation and moral compromise.

Directed by Robert G. Vignola · 0h 50m

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The Luck of the Irish (1920)

TMDB ★ 5.5

Anna Q. Nilsson is in this silent drama about an American engineer whose romance with an Irish immigrant is complicated by her family's objections.

Directed by Allan Dwan · 1h 10m · Rated NR

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Soldiers of Fortune (1919)

TMDB ★ 5.7

Anna Q. Nilsson appears in this silent adventure about an American engineer who defends a South American mine from a violent political revolution.

Directed by Allan Dwan · 1h 10m

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Seven Keys to Baldpate (1917)

TMDB ★ 5.5

Anna Q. Nilsson appears in this silent mystery about a novelist whose bet that he can write a book in 24 hours at an isolated inn is disrupted by a series of mysterious intruders.

Directed by Hugh Ford · 1h 05m

The Trail To Yesterday (1918) 05

The Trail To Yesterday (1918)

TMDB ★ 5.5

Anna Q. Nilsson features in this silent western about a man wrongly blamed for a crime years earlier who returns home to clear his name and reclaim his love.

Directed by Edwin Carewe · 1h 00m

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Barbara Frietchie (1915)

TMDB ★ 5.6

Anna Q. Nilsson features in this silent drama about an elderly woman whose defiant flag display during the Civil War provokes the wrath of Confederate soldiers.

Directed by Herbert Blaché · 0h 50m

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Vlad Zakh

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