''Servant's Entrance'' (Swedish: ''Vi som går köksvägen'') is a 1932 Swedish
comedy film
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directed by
Gustaf Molander
Gustaf Harald August Molander (18 November 1888 – 19 June 1973) was a Sweden, 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 ...
and starring
Carl Barcklind
Carl Barcklind (1 June 1873 – 21 August 1945) was a Swedish stage actor, stage and film actor. Biography
Carl Vilhelm Barcklind was born at Sala in Västmanland County, Sweden. He made his debut as an opera singer in 1907 at the Oscarsteatern.
H ...
,
Tutta Rolf
Tutta Rolf (born Solveig Jenny Berntzen; 7 October 1907 – 26 October 1994) was a Norwegian-Swedish film and theatre actress and singer. Born in Oslo. She appeared in 14 films between 1932 and 1939. She was married three times, firstly to Swedi ...
and
Bengt Djurberg
Bengt Djurberg (23 July 1898 – 2 November 1941) was a Swedish actor and singer. He appeared in about 25 roles in films from 1919 to 1940. His film debut was in Mauritz Stiller's film ''Sången om den eldröda blomman'' in 1919.
Selected filmo ...
.
[Larsson & Marklund p.111]
The film's
art direction
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the visi ...
was by
Arne Ã…kermark
Arne Åkermark (1902–1962) was a Swedish art director who worked on around a hundred and eighty films during a thirty-year career.
In 1948 Ã…kermark was employed in Britain for Ealing Studios epic '' Scott of the Antarctic''.Barr p.199
Selec ...
.
Main cast
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Carl Barcklind
Carl Barcklind (1 June 1873 – 21 August 1945) was a Swedish stage actor, stage and film actor. Biography
Carl Vilhelm Barcklind was born at Sala in Västmanland County, Sweden. He made his debut as an opera singer in 1907 at the Oscarsteatern.
H ...
as Adolf
*
Tutta Rolf
Tutta Rolf (born Solveig Jenny Berntzen; 7 October 1907 – 26 October 1994) was a Norwegian-Swedish film and theatre actress and singer. Born in Oslo. She appeared in 14 films between 1932 and 1939. She was married three times, firstly to Swedi ...
as Helga Breder
*
Bengt Djurberg
Bengt Djurberg (23 July 1898 – 2 November 1941) was a Swedish actor and singer. He appeared in about 25 roles in films from 1919 to 1940. His film debut was in Mauritz Stiller's film ''Sången om den eldröda blomman'' in 1919.
Selected filmo ...
as Bertil Frigård
*
Emma Meissner
Emma Meissner, née ''Ekström'' (30 October 1866 in Karlstad – 20 November 1942 in Stockholm) was a Swedish people, Swedish soprano and actress. Biography
Emma Olivia Ekström was born in Karlstad to Johan Fredrik Ekström and Anna Brita Pet ...
as Mrs. Beck
*
Karin Swanström
Karin Swanström (June 13, 1873 – July 5, 1942) was a Swedish actress, producer and director.
Early life
Swanström was born in St. Olai congregation in Norrköping. Little is known of her life before she was accepted for the Royal Dram ...
as Laura Persson, cook
*
Sigurd Wallén
Sigurd Richard Engelbrekt Wallén (1 September 188420 March 1947) was a Swedish actor, film director, and singer.[Tollie Zellman
Berta Alice Victoria "Tollie" Zellman (31 August 1887 – 9 October 1964) was a Swedish actress. She appeared in 49 films between 1906 and 1964. Tollie Zellman appeared on scene first 1907. She is one of Sweden's most famous comediennes. From 194 ...]
as Pontus' wife
*
Renée Björling
Renée Björling (10 July 1898 – 4 March 1975) was a Swedish film actress. She was born in Lovö, Sweden and died in Täby.
Partial filmography
* ''Tre indvendige Jomfruer'' (1914) - Daughter
* ''The Downy Girl'' (1919) - Anne-Marie Ehi ...
as Astrid Beck
*
Anne-Marie Brunius as Ellen
*
Einar Fagstad
Einar Fagstad (30 October 1899 in Lillehammer – 19 February 1961 in Göteborg) was a Norwegian–Swedish accordionist, vocalist, singer, actor and composer.
Fagstad began playing accordion aged four. He trained as a painter and studied at the ...
as Bengtsson, teacher
*
Siegfried Fischer
Fritz Adolf Ferdinand Siegfried Fischer (14 July 1894 – 8 April 1976) was a Swedish actor, theatre manager, playwright, screenwriter and writer.
He was born in Stockholm, the son of conductor Franz Fischer. At seventeen years old he was h ...
as Anders
*
Rut Holm
Rut Holm (1 November 1900 – 4 July 1971) was a Swedish film actress.Wright p.21
Selected filmography
* '' Servant's Entrance'' (1932)
* '' The Southsiders'' (1932)
* '' Secret Svensson'' (1933)
* ''Augusta's Little Misstep'' (1933)
* '' Fridolf ...
as Olga, housemaid
*
Ã…ke Ohberg
Åke Ohberg (20 July 1905 – 18 July 1975) was a cinema of Sweden, Swedish actor and film director. He appeared in about 30 roles in films between 1932 and 1961.
Ohberg was born to Johan and Hulda Ohberg in Västerås, Sweden.
Marriage and Fa ...
as Joergen Beckman
*
Mathias Taube
Mathias ″Mattis″ Taube (21 September 1876 – 23 June 1934) was a Swedish actor and artist. Taube made his film debut in 1916, and came to participate in more than 20 films.
Biography
Mathias Taube was born in Lindesberg on 21 September 1 ...
as Hans Breder
*
Anna Olin
Anna Olin (born Anna Margareta Kristina Steckmeister; 19 June 1881 – 27 May 1946) was a Swedish stage and film actress.Goble p.214 She was married to the Swedish actor and theatre director Vilhelm Olin.
Selected filmography
* ''Johan Ulfstjerna ...
as Aunt Alexandra
See also
* ''
Servants' Entrance
''Servants' Entrance'' is a 1934 American Pre-Code musical comedy film. It was written by Samson Raphaelson from the Sigrid Boo novel and directed by Frank Lloyd, with a cartoon sequence by Walt Disney (Who's company now ironically owns this fi ...
'' (1934)
References
Bibliography
* Larsson, Mariah & Marklund, Anders (ed.). ''Swedish Film: An Introduction and Reader''. Nordic Academic Press, 2010.
External links
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1932 films
Swedish comedy films
1932 comedy films
1930s Swedish-language films
Films directed by Gustaf Molander
Films based on Norwegian novels
Maids in films
Swedish black-and-white films
1930s Swedish films
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