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Guje Lagerwall
Guje Lagerwall, born ''Gun-Marie Sjöström'', (13 January 1918 – 8 January 2019) was a Swedish actress. Life Gun-Marie Sjöström was the daughter of film director and actor Victor Sjöström and actress Edith Erastoff-Sjöström. Lagerwall herself started an acting career and played supporting roles in a number of films. She sometimes worked under the name ''Guje Kanter''. She was interviewed about her father in Kevin Brownlow's 1995 documentary '' Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood''. She was married to actor Sture Lagerwall from 1940 until their divorce in 1956. Guje Lagerwall died aged 100, five days before her 101st birthday. Filmography *'' Doktor Glas'' (1942) * ''Maria of Kvarngarden'' (1945) *'' Divorced'' (1951) * ''Blondie, Beef and the Banana ''Blondie, Beef and the Banana'' (Swedish: ''Blondie Biffen och Bananen'') is a 1952 Swedish comedy film directed by Lars-Eric Kjellgren and starring Åke Grönberg, Åke Söderblom and Doris Svedlund. It was shot at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Film Institute
The Swedish Film Institute ( sv, Svenska Filminstitutet) was founded in 1963 to support and develop the Swedish film industry. The institute is housed in the ''Filmhuset'' building located in Gärdet, Östermalm in Stockholm. The building, completed in 1970, was designed by architect Peter Celsing. Function The Swedish Film Institute supports Swedish filmmaking and allocates grants for production, distribution and public showing of Swedish films in Sweden. It also promotes Swedish cinema internationally. Furthermore, the Institute organises the annual Guldbagge Awards. The Swedish Film Database is published by the institute. Through the Swedish Film Agreement, between the Swedish state and the film and media industry, the Government of Sweden, the TV companies which were party to the agreement, and Sweden's cinema owners jointly fund the Film Institute and thus, indirectly, Swedish filmmaking. The agreement ran from January 1, 2006, until December 31, 2012. The building a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Sjöström
Victor David Sjöström (; 20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960), also known in the United States as Victor Seastrom, was a pioneering Swedish film director, screenwriter, and actor. He began his career in Sweden, before moving to Hollywood in 1924. Sjöström worked primarily in the silent era; his best known films include ''The Phantom Carriage'' (1921), ''He Who Gets Slapped'' (1924), and '' The Wind'' (1928). Sjöström was Sweden's most prominent director in the "Golden Age of Silent Film" in Europe. Later in life, he played the leading role in Ingmar Bergman's '' Wild Strawberries'' (1957). Biography Born in Årjäng/ Silbodal, in the Värmland region of Sweden, he was only a year old when his father, Olof Adolf Sjöström, moved the family to Brooklyn, New York. His mother died in 1886, he was seven years old. Sjöström returned to Sweden where he lived with relatives in Stockholm, beginning his acting career at 17 as a member of a touring theater company. Drawn from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Brownlow
Kevin Brownlow (born Robert Kevin Brownlow; 2 June 1938) is a British film historian, television documentary-maker, filmmaker, author, and film editor. He is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era, having become interested in silent film at the age of eleven. This interest grew into a career spent documenting and restoring film. Brownlow has rescued many silent films and their history. His initiative in interviewing many largely forgotten, elderly film pioneers in the 1960s and 1970s preserved a legacy of early mass-entertainment cinema. He received an Academy Honorary Award at the 2nd Annual Governors Awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on 13 November 2010. This was the first occasion on which an Academy Honorary Award was given to a film preservationist. Early life Brownlow was born in Crowborough, Sussex, the only child of Thomas Brownlow, an Irish commercial artist making film posters for The Rank Organisation and Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Other Hollywood
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sture Lagerwall
Sture Lagerwall (13 December 1908 – 1 November 1964) was a Swedish actor and film director. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1931 and 1963. He was born in Stockholm, and died in Limhamn, Sweden, in 1964. Selected filmography * '' Say It with Music'' (1929) * '' The False Millionaire'' (1931) * '' The Red Day'' (1931) * '' Mother-in-Law's Coming'' (1932) * '' Pojkarna på Storholmen'' (1932) * ''Marriageable Daughters'' (1933) * '' Fired'' (1934) * '' The Women Around Larsson'' (1934) * '' The People of Småland'' (1935) * ''Walpurgis Night'' (1935) * ''Adventure'' (1936) * '' Witches' Night'' (1937) * '' Comrades in Uniform'' (1938) * ''Career'' (1938) * ''Life Begins Today'' (1939) * '' Emilie Högquist'' (1939) * '' The Two of Us'' (1939) * '' Blossom Time'' (1940) * '' Her Melody'' (1940) * '' The Three of Us'' (1940) * ''Lasse-Maja'' (1941) * ''Adventurer'' (1942) * '' Kungsgatan'' (1943) * '' Sonja'' (1943) * '' En dag skall gry'' (1944) * '' The Emperor of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Glas (1942 Film)
''Doctor Glas'' (Swedish: ''Doktor Glas'') is a 1942 Swedish drama film directed by Rune Carlsten and starring Georg Rydeberg, Irma Christenson and Hilda Borgström. It is based on the 1905 novel of the same name by Hjalmar Söderberg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bertil Duroj. It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm and on location around the city. Plot Dr. Glas, an austere and well-respected physician, is in love with Helga Gregorius, one of his patients. When she confides in him that her husband’s sexual attentions disgust her but that, despite this, he will not leave her alone, the doctor begins to plot to rid her of him. Cast * Georg Rydeberg as Dr. Glas * Irma Christenson as Helga Gregorius * Rune Carlsten as Rev. Gregorius * Hilda Borgström as Kristin * Gösta Cederlund as Markel * Gabriel Alw as Martin Birck * Sven Bergvall as Lowenius * Gösta Grip as Klas Recke * Guje Lagerwall as Eva Mertens * Sven d'Ailly as Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Of Kvarngarden
''Maria of Kvarngarden'' (Swedish: ''Maria på Kvarngården'') is a 1945 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Mattsson and starring Edvin Adolphson, Viveca Lindfors and Irma Christenson.Qvist & Von Bagh p.105 It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm and on location in Uppsala. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bertil Duroj. Cast * Edvin Adolphson as Birger Jern * Viveca Lindfors as Maria * Irma Christenson as Birgit Jern * Linnéa Hillberg as Barbro * Åke Grönberg as Jakob * Ernst Eklund as Major Lundgren * Henrik Schildt as Erik Lundgren * Guje Lagerwall as Karin * John Botvid as John Gröndal * Rune Carlsten as Defence Lawyer * Åke Claesson as Judge * Willy Peters as District Attorney * Anders Nyström Anders Nyström (born 22 April 1975), also known as Blakkheim (or formerly Blackheim), is a Swedish musician. Biography Nyström founded the Swedish metal band Katatonia with singer Jonas Renkse in 1991. Nyström is inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divorced (1951 Film)
''Divorced'' ( sv, Frånskild) is a 1951 Swedish drama film directed by Gustaf Molander and written by Ingmar Bergman. Cast * Inga Tidblad as Gertrud Holmgren * Alf Kjellin as Dr. Bertil Nordelius * Doris Svedlund as Marianne Berg * Hjördis Petterson as Mrs. Lobelius * Håkan Westergren as P.A. Beckman * Irma Christenson as Cecilia Lindeman * Holger Löwenadler as Tore Holmgren * Marianne Löfgren as Mrs. Ingeborg * Stig Olin as Hans * Elsa Prawitz as Elsie * Birgitta Valberg as Eva Möller * Sif Ruud as Rut Boman * Carl Ström as Öhman * Ingrid Borthen as Dinner guest * Yvonne Lombard Yvonne Lombard (born 28 May 1929) is a Swedish actress. Born in Stockholm, Lombard studied at the Royal Dramatic Theatre ("Dramaten") there, where she trained between 1948 and 1951 with the likes of Max von Sydow and Ingrid Thulin. She has per ... as The young wife External links * 1951 films 1951 drama films Swedish drama films 1950s Swedish-language films Swedish black-and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blondie, Beef And The Banana
''Blondie, Beef and the Banana'' (Swedish: ''Blondie Biffen och Bananen'') is a 1952 Swedish comedy film directed by Lars-Eric Kjellgren and starring Åke Grönberg, Åke Söderblom and Doris Svedlund. It was shot at the Råsunda Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Nils Svenwall. It is an adaptation of the long-running comic strip of the same title by Jan-Erik Garland. It is the second of a trilogy of films also including ''Beef and the Banana'' (1951) and ''Klarar Bananen Biffen?'' (1957) Cast * Åke Grönberg as Biffen Johansson * Åke Söderblom as Bananen Jansson * Doris Svedlund as Anita Becker * Lennart Lindberg as Georg Hector * Håkan Westergren as Rudolf Carlman * Emy Hagman as Bojan * Git Gay as Lou-Lou Andersson * Haide Göransson as Anita's Friend * Erik 'Bullen' Berglund as Rich Horse Buyer * Wiktor Andersson as Andersson * Harry Ahlin as Auctionist * Jules Berman as Conferencier * David Erikson as Horse Better * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Actresses
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1918 Births
This year is noted for the end of the World War I, First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – 1918 flu pandemic: The "Spanish flu" (influenza) is first observed in Haskell County, Kansas. * January 4 – The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia, Sweden, German Empire, Germany and France. * January 9 – Battle of Bear Valley: U.S. troops engage Yaqui people, Yaqui Native American warriors in a minor skirmish in Arizona, and one of the last battles of the American Indian Wars between the United States and Native Americans. * January 15 ** The keel of is laid in Britain, the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be laid down. ** The Red Army (The Workers and Peasants Red Army) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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