Elsa-Marianne von Rosen (21 April 1924 – 7 September 2014) was a Swedish

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and

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. She performed all over

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. She acted between 1939 and 1970. She appeared in the

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'' Tales of Hans Anderson''. In 1984, she was given the Royal Medal of Merit

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. She also directed ballet plays outside of Scandinavia, in

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, the United States, the United Kingdom and

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. She was the head of ballet at the Stora Teatern in Gothenburg between 1970 and 1976 and also of Malmöbaletten between 1980 and 1987. Von Rosen was born in

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. She was the daughter of the artist Count Reinhold von Rosen and Elisabeth Österyd, his first wife. In 1950, von Rosen married

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Allan Fridericia (1921–1991). Soon after, they moved to

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. She died from

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on 7 September 2014 in

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. She was 90 years old.

Filmography

*1939: ''Skanör-Falsterbo'' *1940: ''Kyss henne!'' *1941: ''Det sägs på stan'' *1950: ''Ung och kär'' *1954: ''Balettprogram'' *1957: ''Med glorian på sned'' *1958: ''Jazzgossen'' *1959: ''Fröken Julie'' *1967: ''Lorden från gränden'' *1970: ''The Only Way''

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