Asta Nielsen

Nielsen left films around the advent of talking pictures and worked instead on the stage. She made a brief return to films for one sound picture in 1932 and then continued her stage career for another decade, leaving Germany during the 30s as Nazism came to the fore and returning to Denmark. Nielsen published a memoir, "The Silent Muse," in 1946 and, late in life, narrated, appeared in and directed a half-hour short film about her heyday in cinema.