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Jacques Armand
Olof Thiel (October 31, 1892 – December 10, 1978) was a Swedish film producer, film production manager, and composer. As a composer, he most often used the pseudonym "Jacques Armand." He also wrote some of the lyrics to his melodies. Family Otto Thiel was the son of Ernest Thiel (1859–1947) and Anna Fredrika Josephson. His father Ernest created the Thiel Gallery () art museum, which is one of the foremost museums in Stockholm. Otto Thiel's daughter Madeleine Uggla was a singing teacher and the mother of the actor Magnus Uggla. Career Thiel was one of the directors of the company Filmaktiebolaget Biörnstad & Thiel, and he started the film company AB Irefilm. He composed the music for almost all of Irefilm's film productions. Film music (selected) * ''A Stolen Waltz'' (1932) * '' Fantegutten'' (1932) * '' Flickan från varuhuset'' (1933) * '' Ä' vi gifta?'' (1936) * ''The Ghost of Bragehus'' (1936) * '' Poor Millionaires'' (1936) * '' En sjöman går iland'' (1937) * '' Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.4 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is also the county seat of Stockholm County. For several hundred years, Stockholm was the capital of Finland as well (), which then was a part of Sweden. The population of the municipality of Stockholm is expected to reach o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Vestköping
''Happy Vestköping'' (Swedish: ''Lyckliga Vestköping'') is a 1937 Swedish comedy film directed by Ragnar Arvedson and starring Isa Quensel, Einar Axelsson and Nils Wahlbom.Wallengren p.54 Synopsis The small Swedish town of Vestköping awaits the arrival of Justus Napoleon Rosén, who emigrated to the United States many years before and has reportedly become very wealthy. Cast * Isa Quensel as Ann-Marie Brandt * Einar Axelsson as Lennart Rosén * Nils Wahlbom as Uncle Justus Napoleon Rosén * Tollie Zellman as Vivi Rosén * Olav Riégo as Theodor Rosén * John W. Brunius as Skotte, banker * Eric Abrahamsson as Edvard Claesson * Charley Paterson as Mayor * Georg Funkquist as Hotel manager * Stig Järrel as Author Rolf Gånge * Olof Sandborg as Department manager * Sigge Fürst as Worker at the railway station * Ragnar Arvedson as Secretary * Gillis Blom as Torphammar * Rolf Botvid as Bank clerk * Bertil Ehrenmark as Unemployed * Georg Fernqvist as Mayor's secret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II. * January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Somoza's government. * January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. * January 22 – Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany ''persona non grata''. * January 24 ** Soviet Union, Soviet satellite Kosmos 954 burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1892 Births
Year 189 ( CLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 189 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring riots in the city. China * Liu Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty. * Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor. * Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han. By topic Arts and sciences * Galen publishes his ''"Treatise on the various temperaments"'' (aka ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Film Database
The Swedish Film Database ( sv, Svensk filmdatabas) is an Internet database about Swedish films, published by the 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, comp .... It contains information about all Swedish films from 1897 onwards and foreign films that had cinema premiere in Sweden. It also provides many biographies of actors, directors, producers etc. who participated in Swedish films over the years. It is created with the support of the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. The database comprises about 62,000 films (17,000 Swedish films) and 265,000 people. References External linksSwedish Film Database Swedish film websites Online film databases Databases in Sweden {{website-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stackars Miljonärer
''Poor Millionaires'' (Swedish: ''Stackars miljonärer'') is a 1936 Swedish comedy film directed by Ragnar Arvedson and Tancred Ibsen and starring Adolf Jahr, Anna Olin and Ernst Eklund.Larsson & Marklund p.119 The film's sets were designed by the art director Manne Runsten. It is based on the 1934 novel ''Three Men in the Snow'' by Erich Kästner. Synopsis An unemployed engineer wins a competition, first prize of which is a vacation to a luxury resort in the mountains. Cast * Adolf Jahr as Jan Eriksson * Anna Olin as Mrs. Eriksson * Ernst Eklund as Georg Delmar * Eleonor de Floer as Eva Delmar * Nils Wahlbom as Johan * Tollie Zellman as Mrs. Olander * Olav Riégo as Holm * Gerda Björne as Wholesalers wife * Gudrun Brost as Hotel guest * Carl Browallius as Larsson, clerk * Eivor Engelbrektsson as Ofelia * John Ericsson as Lumberer * Georg Funkquist as Hovén, hotel manager * Nils Hallberg as Bell boy * Anna-Lisa Hydén as Hotel guest * Håkan Jahnberg as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanske En Gentleman (1935 Film)
''Kanske en gentleman'' (Perhaps a Gentleman) is a Swedish drama film from 1935 directed by Ragnar Arvedson and Tancred Ibsen. The film script was written by Theodor Berthels, Berndt Carlberg (pseudonym Berco), and Ulla Kåge. It was base on George Bernard Shaw's play ''Pygmalion. The play also served as the basis for Anthony Asquith's and Leslie Howard's British film ''Pygmalion'' in 1938 and the musical ''My Fair Lady'', which was filmed in the United States by George Cukor in 1964. The two Swedish films '' Kanske en gentleman'' (1950) and '' Fly mej en greve'' (1959) are also based on the play. The film had its Swedish premiere on August 24, 1935 at the Astoria cinema in Stockholm. Cast *Adolf Jahr as Gustaf "Gurra" Lind, a dock worker *Carl Barcklind as company director Hugo Berner *Olga Andersson as Sofia Berner, his wife *Brita Appelgren as Vera Berner, his daughter *Frank Sundström a Erik Berner, his son *Ivar Kåge as Olof Mellgren, a doctor and friend of the Berner f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synnöve Solbakken (1934 Film)
''Synnöve Solbakken'' is a Swedish drama film from 1934 directed by Tancred Ibsen. The film script was written by Ibsen and Torsten Flodén. It is based on Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's 1857 novel '' Synnøve Solbakken''. The film was shot at Irefilm's studios in Stockholm, and the outdoor scenes were shot in Vågå. ''Synnöve Solbakken'' premiered on October 22, 1934, at the Skandia cinema in Stockholm. The novel was adapted for film two other times in Sweden, in 1919 and in 1957. Plot Torbjörn and Synnöve are two children living in the same valley. Synnöve's mother does not like them playing with each other because Torbjörn's grandfather drinks. They have both now grown up. Torbjörn is teased for having an alcoholic grandfather. This leads to fights, which Synnöve wants him to stop. During a fight, Torbjörn is stabbed in the back and paralyzed. He asks Synnöve to seek another man and not commit herself to a cripple. One day he sees his father's carriage overturn and, distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comrades In Uniform
''Comrades in Uniform'' (Swedish: ''Kamrater i vapenrocken'') is a 1938 Swedish comedy film directed by Schamyl Bauman and starring Gösta Cederlund, Fritiof Billquist and Sigge Fürst.Qvist & Von Bagh p.44 The film's sets were designed by the art director Arthur Spjuth. Synopsis Two friends are called up for their military service as a conscripts. Cast * Gösta Cederlund as Överste Skyller * Fritiof Billquist as Löjtnant Skanse * Sigge Fürst as Sergeant Swärd * Elof Ahrle as Loffe Holm, beväring * Sture Lagerwall as Pelle Sundin, beväring * Tord Bernheim as Tage Fredman, beväring * Henrik Dyfverman as Daniel Lundqvist, beväring * Tollie Zellman as Laura Fredman * Annalisa Ericson as Annika Gårdeman * Nils Hultgren as Manfred * Solveig Hedengran as Greta * Anna Lindahl as Sonja * Axel Högel as Teatervaktmästaren * Åke Grönberg as Bonzo * Emil Fjellström as Supply Worker * Rolf Botvid as Hostile Soldier * Manne Grünberger as Hostile Soldier * Fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Career (1938 Film)
''Career'' (Swedish: ''Karriär'') is a 1938 Swedish drama film directed by Schamyl Bauman and starring Signe Hasso, Sture Lagerwall and Tollie Zellman.Hjort & Lindqvist p.318 The film's sets were designed by the art director Erwin Scharf. It follows the members of a touring theatre company. Cast * Signe Hasso as Monika Hall * Sture Lagerwall as Erik Norrby * Tollie Zellman as Nanny Högfelt * Carl Barcklind as Ferdinand Sund * Ruth Stevens as Karin Lund * Olof Widgren as Helge Berg * Olof Sandborg as Theater Manager * Wiola Brunius a s Margit Larsson * Mona Mårtenson as Actress * Ludde Gentzel as Johansson * Ragnar Widestedt as Lindell * Gösta Cederlund as Malte Brundin Senior * Sigge Fürst as Bus Driver * Douglas Håge as Rydman, Theater Manager * Åke Engfeldt as Malte Brundin Junior * Hartwig Fock as Man at Railroad Crossing * Gustaf Färingborg as Pelle Söderström, Actor * Torsten Hillberg as Man * Elsa Holmquist as Lena Moberg, Actress * Bellan Roos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
En Flicka Kommer Till Sta'n
En or EN may refer to: Businesses * Bouygues (stock symbol EN) * Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway (reporting mark EN, but now known as Southern Railway of Vancouver Island) * Euronews, a news television and internet channel Language and writing * En or N, the 14th letter of the Roman alphabet * EN (cuneiform), the mark in Sumerian cuneiform script for a High Priest or Priestess meaning "lord" or "priest" * En (Cyrillic) (Н, н), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, equivalent to the Roman letter "n" * En (digraph), ‹en› used as a phoneme * En (typography), a unit of width in typography ** en dash, a dash one en long * En language, a language spoken in northern Vietnam * English language (ISO 639-1 language code en) Organisations * Eastern National, a US organization providing educational products to National Park visitors * English Nature, a former UK government conservation agency * Envirolink Northwest, an environmental organization in England Religion * En (deity) in Alba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
