Karin Molander (born Katarina Margareta Elisabet Edwertz, 20 May 1889 – 3 September 1978) was a
Swedish
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stage and film actress whose career spanned over five decades.
Career
Born Katarina Margareta Elisabet Edwertz in
Stockholm,
Sweden, she began taking classes from theater actress Julia Håkansson at a young age. She debuted on stage at the Vasa Theatre in 1907 and was engaged at the Intiman Theatre from 1911 to 1920, the Lorensberg Theatre from 1920 to 1922 and at the
Royal Dramatic Theatre
The Royal Dramatic Theatre ( sv, Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, colloquially ''Dramaten'') is Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", founded in 1788. Around one thousand shows are put on annually on the theatre's five running stages.
The the ...
in two phases: 1922 to 1925 and again from 1931 to 1936. Molander made her film debut in 1913 in director
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 ...
's ''
Halvblod''. Working with filmmaker
Mauritz Stiller
Mauritz Stiller (born Moshe Stiller, 17 July 1883 – 18 November 1928) was a Swedish film director of Finnish Jewish origin, best known for discovering Greta Garbo and bringing her to America.
Stiller had been a pioneer of the Swedish film ...
, Molander became a very popular leading lady in
silent film
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s, a symbol of the young, modern and emancipated women of the 1910s. She is possibly best recalled in director Mauritz Stiller's 1920 social satire ''
Erotikon'', one of many films by Stiller she appeared in.
Personal life
Molander was married twice. Her first marriage was to Swedish film director
Gustaf Molander
Gustaf Harald August Molander (18 November 1888 – 19 June 1973) was a Swedish actor and film director. His parents were director Harald Molander, Sr. (1858–1900) and singer and actress Lydia Molander, ''née'' Wessler, and his brother was th ...
from 1909 to 1919, which produced a son - actor and producer
Harald Molander - but ended in divorce. She married actor
Lars Hanson in 1920 and the couple remained married until Hanson's death in 1965.
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Molander died in Täby, at Höstsol, which was a foundation for retired actors which had been founded by the Teaterförbundet (Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film) in 1978, aged 89. She was buried at the Norra Begravningsplatsen
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Notabl ...
cemetery in Solna
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.
Selected filmography
*'' Half Breed'' (Swedish title: ''Halvblod'') (1914)
*'' Hearts That Meet'' (Swedish title: ''Hjärtan som mötas'') (1914)
*'' The Lass from the Stormy Croft'' (Swedish title: '' Tösen från Stormyrtorpet'') (1917)
*'' Synnöve Solbakken'' (1919)
*'' Erotikon'' (1920)
*'' Johan'' (1921)
*'' Gabrielle'' (1954)
References
External links
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photograph of ''Karin Molander''
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1889 births
1978 deaths
Swedish stage actresses
Swedish film actresses
Swedish silent film actresses
20th-century Swedish actresses
Actresses from Stockholm