What’s striking about the Danish actor Asta Nielsen’s debut film The Abyss, marketed in the English-speaking world in the 1910s as Woman Always Pays, is how frankly it acknowledges and depicts female desire and its costs, as the original English title makes plain. Asta’s character Magda is a … [Read more...] about Asta Nielsen Debuts in The Abyss
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