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Jenny Hasselqvist
Jenny Matilda Elisabet Hasselquist, also spelled Hasselqvist (31 July 1894 – 8 June 1978), was a Swedish prima ballerina, film actress, and ballet teacher. Biography Jenny Matilda Elisabet Hasselquist was born in Stockholm on 31 July 1894 to Johannes Johansson Hasselquist and Sofia Katarina Hasselquist. She had two older brothers, Wilhelm (1887–1959), and Gerhard (1889–1950). She attended the Swedish Opera's ballet school from 1906 and performed with the Royal Ballet from 1910. In 1913, Michel Fokine noticed her talents and ensured she obtained solo roles in ''La Sylphide'' and ''Cleopatra''. She became a prima ballerina at the Royal Ballet in 1915. In 1920, Hasselquist starred in Rolf de Maré's Ballets suédois in Paris. A talented dancer, she had a flair for the modern idiom. However she left de Maré after just one season, apparently dissatisfied with her potential there. She went on to play leading roles in many Swedish and some German silent films including ''Johan ...
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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 ...
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The Suitor From The Highway
''The Suitor from the Highway'' (Swedish: ''Friaren frÃ¥n landsvägen'') is a 1923 Swedish silent drama film directed by Sigurd Wallén and starring Edvin Adolphson, Jenny Hasselqvist and Gösta Alexandersson.Qvist & Von Bagh p.151 Cast * Edvin Adolphson as Sten Selling * Jenny Hasselqvist as Astrid Löwen * Gösta Alexandersson as Gösta Lind * Vilhelm Bryde as Binge * Sigurd Wallén as Vagel * John Ekman John Ekman (15 November 1880 – 22 November 1949) was a Swedish film actor. Biography He first trained as an artist under Richard Bergh (1858-1919). He was employed by various theater companies; Swedish Biograft Theater in Kristianstad (19 ... as Jonas RÃ¥sten References Bibliography * Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. ''Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000. External links * 1923 films 1923 drama films Swedish silent feature films Swedish black-and-white films Films directed by Sigurd Wallén 1920s Swedish-la ...
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Swedish Silent Film Actresses
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Swedish Ballerinas
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Swedish Female Dancers
Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by the Swedish language * Swedish people or Swedes, persons with a Swedish ancestral or ethnic identity ** A national or citizen of Sweden, see demographics of Sweden ** Culture of Sweden * Swedish cuisine See also * * Swedish Church (other) * Swedish Institute (other) * Swedish invasion (other) * Swedish Open (other) Swedish Open is a tennis tournament. Swedish Open may also refer to: *Swedish Open (badminton) * Swedish Open (table tennis) *Swedish Open (squash) *Swedish Open (darts) The Swedish Open is a darts tournament established in 1969, held in Malmà ... {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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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. ** ...
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1894 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United States. * January 9 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard, in Lexington, Massachusetts Lexington is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is 10 miles (16 km) from Downtown Boston. The population was 34,454 as of the 2020 census. The area was originally inhabited by Native Americans, and was firs .... * February 12 ** French anarchist Émile Henry (anarchist), Émile Henry sets off a bomb in a Paris café, killing one person and wounding twenty. ** The barque ''Elisabeth Rickmers'' of Bremerhaven is wrecked at Haurvig, Denmark, but all crew and passengers are saved. * February 15 ** In Korea, peasant unrest erupts in the Donghak Peasant ...
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Say It With Music (1929 Film)
''Say It with Music'' (Swedish: ''Säg det i toner'') is a 1929 Swedish musical film directed by Edvin Adolphson and Julius Jaenzon and starring Håkan Westergren, Elisabeth Frisk and Stina Berg. It was shot at the Råsunda Studios in Stockholm with a soundtrack added in a Berlin studio that had been converted to sound. The film's sets were designed by the art director Vilhelm Bryde. It came during the switch from silent to sound film and lacks any dialogue. It was one of three Swedish films released that year that including some element of sound, and came at a time when film production was in crisis with no films released during the first nine months of 1929.Gustafsson p.114 It is also known by the alternative title ''The Dream Waltz''. Cast * Håkan Westergren as Olof Svensson * Stina Berg as Mrs. Svensson * Elisabeth Frisk as Lisa Lindahl * Tore Svennberg as Mr. Lindahl * Jenny Hasselqvist as Mrs. Lindahl * Margit Manstad as Ingrid Mårtenson * Edvin Adolphson as Mrs. L ...
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Guilty (1928 Film)
''Guilty'' (German: ''Schuldig'') is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Johannes Meyer and starring Suzy Vernon, Bernhard Goetzke and Jenny Hasselqvist.Bock & Bergfelder p.74 The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Reimann. Cast * Suzy Vernon as Maria Feld * Bernhard Goetzke as Vater Thomas Feld * Jenny Hasselqvist as Mutter Magda Feld * Willy Fritsch as Lawyer Frank Peters * Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Bordellinhaber Peter Cornelius * Adolphe Engers as Georg Aschmann * Max Maximilian as Clown Bumski * Mammey Terja-Basa as Mongole * Rudolf Biebrach * Heinz Salfner * Arnold Korff * Lotte Stein Lotte Stein (1894–1982) was a German actress of the stage and screen. Of Jewish descent, she fled to the United States via Czechoslovakia and Portugal, and arrived at the Port of New York on board the S/S ''Mouzinho'' in June 1941. Selected fi ... References Bibliography * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encycloped ...
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The Girl Without A Homeland
''The Girl Without a Homeland'' (german: Das Mädchen ohne Heimat) is a 1927 Austrian-German silent drama film directed by Constantin J. David and starring Jenny Hasselqvist, Henry Stuart, and Oskar Homolka. The film's sets were designed by the art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ... . Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1927 films 1927 drama films Films of the Weimar Republic Austrian silent feature films Silent Austrian drama films German silent feature films Silent German drama films Films directed by Constantin J. David German black-and-white films 1920s German films 1920s German-language films {{1920s-Germany-film-stub ...
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To The Orient
''To the Orient'' (Swedish: ''Till österland'') is a 1926 Swedish silent drama film directed by Gustaf Molander and starring Lars Hanson, Jenny Hasselqvist and Mona Mårtenson.Qvist & Von Bagh p.29 It was shot at the Råsunda Studios in Stockholm and on location in Jaffa and Jerusalem in Mandatory Palestine. The film's sets were designed by the art director Vilhelm Bryde. Based on the novel ''Jerusalem'' by Selma Lagerlöf, it is the sequel to the 1925 film '' Ingmar's Inheritance''. Cast * Lars Hanson as Ingmar * Jenny Hasselqvist as Barbro * Mona Mårtenson as Gertrud * Harald Schwenzen as Gabriel Mattson * Ivan Hedqvist as Stark-Anders * Gabriel Alw as Nameless Messiah * Edvin Adolphson as Stig Börjesson * Nils Aréhn as Teacher * Ida Brander as Skolmästarns hustru * Knut Lindroth Knut (Norwegian and Swedish), Knud (Danish), or Knútur (Icelandic) is a Scandinavian, German, and Dutch first name, of which the anglicised form is Canute. In Germany both "Knut" an ...
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