Einar Hanson

From Wikipedia Einar Hanson June 15 1899 Stockholm Sweden June 3 1927 Santa Monica California also known as Einar Hansen was a Swedish silent film motionpicture actor Discovered at Stockholms 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 Hollywoods great screen lover Upon his arrival in Hollywood in 1925 along with Stiller and the directors other protegée Greta Garbo Hanson starred opposite some of the eras 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 fiveyear contract from Universal Studios He showed great progress opposite Clara Bow and Esther Ralston in Children of Divorce as well as The Woman on Trial and Barbed Wire both with Pola Negri 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 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 He was 27