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Miss April (1958 Film)
''Miss April'' (Swedish: ''Fröken April'') is a 1958 Swedish comedy film directed by Göran Gentele and starring Gunnar Björnstrand, Lena Söderblom and Gaby Stenberg. It was shot at the Sundbyberg Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Bertil Duroj and Arne Åkermark. It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. Synopsis In Stockholm, Marcus a banker falls in love with the ballet dancer Maj who performs in the opera and gets himself a job working there. However she is in love with the opera's star singer Osvald Berg and tries to get Marcus to help her gain his interest. Cast *Gunnar Björnstrand as Marcus Arwidson *Lena Söderblom as Maj Bergman *Jarl Kulle as Osvald Berg *Gaby Stenberg as Vera Stenberg *Douglas Håge as Chorus master *Hjördis Petterson as Mrs. Berg *Meg Westergren as Anna *Lena Madsén as Siri *Olof Sandborg as Head of the Opera *Sif Ruud as Mrs. Nilsson *Birgitta Valberg as Ms. Holm, secretary *Per Oscarsson as Sver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göran Gentele
Göran Gentele (29 September 1917 – 18 July 1972) was a Swedish actor, director, and opera manager. He was briefly the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1972. Biography Born in Stockholm, Gentele studied from 1944 until 1946 at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy, beginning a brief career as a film actor not long afterwards. He soon turned to directing, working for a time at the Royal Dramatic Theatre and then at the Royal Swedish Opera, where his more notable productions included Gian Carlo Menotti's ''The Consul'' and Karl-Birger Blomdahl's ''Aniara''. He became director of the company in 1963. He also directed films during approximately the same period (1947 to 1969), making at least 15 feature films and television movies. His 1951 film '' Leva på 'Hoppet''' was awarded the Silver Bear for comedy at the Berlin International Film Festival.IMDBFilmography Accessed April 29, 2016 He succeeded Sir Rudolf Bing as director of the Metropolitan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banker
A bank is a financial institution that accepts Deposit account, deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets. Because banks play an important role in financial stability and the economy of a country, most jurisdictions exercise a Bank regulation, high degree of regulation over banks. Most countries have institutionalized a system known as fractional reserve banking, under which banks hold liquid assets equal to only a portion of their current liabilities. In addition to other regulations intended to ensure accounting liquidity, liquidity, banks are generally subject to minimum capital requirements based on an international set of capital standards, the Basel Accords. Banking in its modern sense evolved in the fourteenth century in the prosperous cities of Renaissance Italy but in many ways functioned as a continuation of ideas and concept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengt Eklund
Bengt Gunnar Eklund (18 January 1925 – 19 January 1998) was a Swedish actor. He is well known as Nisse Granqvist in the 1964 TV series ''Vi på Saltkråkan''. Eklund worked for many years at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, but also made a large number of roles in movies and television, including Ingmar Bergman's Summer with Monika (1953) and ''Shame'' (1968), and Gustaf Molander's film '' Sir Arne's Treasure'' (1954; based on the novel by Selma Lagerlöf). Eklund was married to actress Fylgia Zadig. He was the father of economist Klas Eklund and grandfather of novelist Sigge Eklund and real estate broker Fredrik Eklund. Selected filmography * ''The Kiss on the Cruise'' (1950) * ''Skipper in Stormy Weather'' (1951) * ''In the Arms of the Sea'' (1951) * ''Dance, My Doll'' (1953) * '' Night Child'' (1956) * '' Laila'' (1958) * ''Crime in Paradise ''Crime in Paradise'' (Swedish: ''Brott i paradiset'') is a 1959 Swedish crime thriller film directed by Lars-Eric Kjellg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Skarstedt
Georg Skarstedt (31 January 1900 – 8 December 1976) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in more 120 films between 1920 and 1969. Selected filmography * ''The People of Norrland'' (1930) * ''A Night of Love by the Öresund'' (1931) * ''International Match'' (1932) * '' Lucky Devils'' (1932) * ''Boman's Boy'' (1933) * ''Simon of Backabo'' (1934) * ''The Marriage Game'' (1935) * ''Ocean Breakers'' (1935) * ''Conflict'' (1937) * ''The Andersson Family'' (1937) * ''Adolf Strongarm'' (1937) * ''Storm Over the Skerries'' (1938) * '' Kiss Her!'' (1940) * '' Only a Woman'' (1941) * ''Captured by a Voice'' (1943) * ''Blizzard'' (1944) * ''Motherhood'' (1945) * '' Black Roses (1945 film), Black Roses'' (1945) * ''The Rose of Tistelön'' (1945) * ''Harald the Stalwart'' (1946) * '' The Poetry of Ådalen'' (1947) * ''Maria'' (1947) * ''Neglected by His Wife'' (1947) * '' The People of Simlang Valley'' (1947) * ''Music in Darkness'' (1948) *''Sin'' (1948) * ''Robinson in Roslagen'' (1948) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Björn Gustafson
Björn Herman Leonard Gustafson (born 30 November 1934) is a Swedish actor. He was born in Stockholm and has appeared in 93 films and television shows since 1956. He starred in the 1965 film ''Love 65'', which was entered into the 15th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Playing on the Rainbow'' (1958) * '' Miss April'' (1958) * ''Sängkammartjuven'' (1959) * ''Rider in Blue'' (1959) * '' Siska'' (1962) * ''Hide and Seek'' (1963) * ''Love 65'' (1965) * '' Ormen'' (1966) * ''Badarna'' (1968) * ''Emil i Lönneberga'' (1971) * ''New Mischief by Emil'' (1972) * ''Emil and the Piglet'' (1973) * ''Den vita stenen'' (1973) * ''To Be a Millionaire'' (1980) * ''Marmalade Revolution'' (1980) * '' Jönssonligan och Dynamit-Harry'' (1982) * ''Åke and His World'' (1984) * ''Jönssonligan får guldfeber'' (1984) * ''Jönssonligan dyker upp igen'' (1986) * '' Go'natt Herr Luffare'' (1988) * ''Jönssonligan på Mallorca'' (1989) * '' The Ox'' (1991) * ''Jönssonligan oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sven Holmberg
Sven Holmberg (9 February 1918 – 1 April 2003) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in more than 60 films and television shows between 1949 and 1988. Selected filmography * ''Love Wins Out'' (1949) * ''Knockout at the Breakfast Club'' (1950) * ''My Name Is Puck'' (1951) * ''Classmates (1952 film), Classmates'' (1952) * ''Speed Fever'' (1953) * ''The Shadow (1953 film), The Shadow'' (1953) * ''Unmarried Mothers (1953 film), Unmarried Mothers'' (1953) * ''The Chieftain of Göinge'' (1953) * ''A Night in the Archipelago'' (1953) *''Taxi 13 (1954 film), Taxi 13'' (1954) * ''Far och flyg'' (1955) * ''Darling of Mine'' (1955) * ''Whoops! (film), Whoops!'' (1955) * ''Voyage in the Night'' (1955) * ''Uncle's'' (1955) * ''The Biscuit (film), The Biscuit'' (1956) * ''Night Child (1956 film), Night Child'' (1956) * ''Woman in a Fur Coat'' (1958) * ''Åsa-Nisse in Military Uniform'' (1958) * ''Miss April (1958 film), Miss April'' (1958) * ''A Lion in Town'' (1959) * ''Sten Stensson Returns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Per Oscarsson
Per Oscar Heinrich Oscarsson (28 January 1927 – 31 December 2010) was a Swedish actor. He is best known for his role in the 1966 film ''Hunger'', which earned him a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. Early life Oscarsson was born, along with his twin brother Björn, on 28 January 1927 on Kungsholmen, Stockholm, to parents Einar Oscarsson, an engineer, and Therèse, née Küppers. The twins had two elder siblings. Their mother, who was German, died of cancer in 1933.Per Oscarsson - Bakom rubrikerna och replikerna ("Per Oscarsson - Behind headlines and lines") TV-interview with Agneta Bolme Börjefors from 1998. Career Oscarsson was best known for his role as Pontus, a starving writer, in the social realism drama ''Hunger'', based on the Knut Hamsun novel by the same name, a role for which he won the 1966 Bodil, the Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the 1966 Cannes Film Festival best actor awards. His most recent film role was as Holger Palmgren, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birgitta Valberg
Birgitta Valberg (16 December 1916 – 29 March 2014) was a Swedish actress. She was best known for her work in several Ingmar Bergman films made over a 30-year period, including the Bergman produced ''Paradise Place'' (1977). For her role in this film, which was directed by Gunnel Lindblom, another member of Bergman's repertory company, she won the award for Best Actress at the 13th Guldbagge Awards. She trained at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy. Filmography Film *1934: ''Unga hjärtan'' - Ingrid *1939: ''The People of Högbogården'' - Young Woman *1939: '' Melodin från Gamla Stan'' - Woman at the restaurant (uncredited) *1941: '' In Paradise'' - Marianne *1941: ''The Fight Continues'' - Nurse *1942: ''Bambi'' - Bambi's Mother (Swedish dub) *1943: '' Life in the Country'' - Frida von Rambow *1948: '' Port of Call'' - Mrs. Vilander *1949: ''Love Wins Out'' - Schwester Erika *1951: ''Divorced'' - Eva Möller *1953: ''Barabbas'' - Veronica from Cyrene (uncredited) *1953 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sif Ruud
Sif Einarsdotter Ruud Fallde born Sif Einarsdotter Ruud (6 May 1916 – 15 August 2011), best known as Sif Ruud, was a Swedish film actress. Born in Stockholm to Einar Ruud and Inez Engström, she began her career in 1938, and appeared in 140 films. At the 15th Guldbagge Awards she won the award for Best Actress for her role in '' A Walk in the Sun''. Selected filmography * ''Nothing Is Forgotten'' (1942) * ''Kristin Commands'' (1946) * ''It Rains on Our Love'' (1946) * ''Johansson and Vestman'' (1946) * ''How to Love'' (1947) * ''Neglected by His Wife'' (1947) * ''Dynamite'' (1947) * '' Port of Call'' (1948) * ''Girl from the Mountain Village'' (1948) * ''On These Shoulders'' (1948) * ''Lars Hård'' (1948) * ''Love Wins Out'' (1949) * ''Dangerous Spring'' (1949) * ''Father Bom'' (1949) * ''Thirst'' (1949) * ''Only a Mother'' (1949) * ''Playing Truant'' (1949) * ''The Street'' (1949) * ''Vagabond Blacksmiths'' (1949) * '' To Joy'' (1950) * ''Jack of Hearts'' (1950) * ''Two S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olof Sandborg
Olof Sandborg (April 30, 1884 in Göteborg – March 26, 1965 in Stockholm) was a Swedish stage and film actor. He won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 1962. Filmography * '' Blodets röst'' (1913) * '' Lady Marions sommarflirt'' (1913) * ''Svärmor på vift eller Förbjudna vägar'' (1916) * ''Brottmålsdomaren'' (1917) *''The Doctor's Secret'' (1930) * ''International Match'' (1932) * ''Djurgårdsnätter'' (1933) * ''En melodi om våren'' (1933) *''Man's Way with Women'' (1934) * ''A Wedding Night at Stjarnehov'' (1934) * '' Andersson's Kalle'' (1934) * ''The Ghost of Bragehus'' (1936) * ''Happy Vestköping'' (1937) * '' Russian Flu'' (1937) * ''Career'' (1938) * ''Only One Night'' (1939) * ''Mot nya tider'' (1939) * ''Hans Nåds testamente'' (1940) * '' The Talk of the Town'' (1941) * ''General von Döbeln'' (1942) * ''Adventurer'' (1942) * ''The Emperor of Portugallia'' (1944) * '' Tired Theodore'' (1945) * ''Simon the Sinner'' (1954) * '' Whoops!'' (1955) *''The Dance Hall'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meg Westergren
Elsa Margareta "Meg" Westergren (born 16 May 1932) is a Swedish actress from Nockeby, Bromma, in Stockholm. Her parents were both actors and she made her acting debut in the 1951 film ''Living on 'Hope'''. She studied at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy from 1951 to 1954, and became a successful comedic theater actress afterwards. Westergren has been married twice and has one son. Early life Westergren is the daughter of famous actors Håkan Westergren and Inga Tidblad. They moved to Nockeby, Stockholm, in 1931 and got married the same year. Westergren was born the following year on 16 May 1932. As a child, Westergren was a big admirer of her mother who was one of the biggest stars in Swedish theater. Westergren was raised with a nanny and has later said she wishes her busy parents would have spent more time with her while growing up. Westergren was originally not planning on becoming an actress. Instead she decided to become a fashion designer and traveled to Paris to stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hjördis Petterson
Hjördis Olga Maria Petterson (17 October 1908 – 27 May 1988) was a Swedish actress. She appeared in more than 140 films. She was born in Visby, Sweden and died in Stockholm. Selected filmography * ''Perhaps a Poet'' (1933) * ''Eva Goes Aboard'' (1934) * ''Synnöve Solbakken (1934 film), Synnöve Solbakken'' (1934) * ''The Song to Her'' (1934) * ''Andersson's Kalle (1934 film), Andersson's Kalle'' (1934) * ''It Pays to Advertise (1936 film), It Pays to Advertise'' (1936) * ''The Family Secret (1936 film), The Family Secret'' (1936) * ''Adventure (1936 film), Adventure'' (1936) * ''The Lady Becomes a Maid'' (1936) * ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), Snövit och de sju dvärgarna'' (1938) * ''Styrman Karlssons flammor'' (1938) * ''Kiss Her!'' (1940) * ''With Open Arms (1940 film), With Open Arms'' (1940) * ''The Fight Continues'' (1941) * ''Only a Woman (1941 film), Only a Woman'' (1941) *''Lucky Young Lady'' (1941) * ''Lasse-Maja (film), Lasse-Maja'' (1941) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
