''The Yellow Clinic'' (Swedish: ''Gula kliniken'') is a 1942 Swedish
drama film
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directed by
Ivar Johansson and starring
Arnold Sjöstrand,
Viveca Lindfors
Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors (December 29, 1920 – October 25, 1995) was a Swedish stage, film, and television actress. She won an Emmy Award and a Silver Bear for Best Actress.
Biography
Lindfors was born in Uppsala, Sweden, the d ...
and
Nils Lundell.
[Qvist & Von Bagh p.105] It was made at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in
Stockholm with
location shooting
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The filming location may be the same in which the story is set (for ex ...
also taking place at the
Södersjukhuset and the
Karolinska Hospitals in the city. The film's sets were designed by the
art director Bertil Duroj
Bertil Duroj (1893–1967) was a Swedish art director. Active in the Swedish film industry he designed the sets for more than a hundred productions during his career. These included ''The Yellow Clinic'' (1942).Laura p.96
Selected filmography
...
.
Synopsis
The head of a woman's clinic is firmly against
abortion
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, but one of his doctors has opposing views.
Cast
*
Arnold Sjöstrand as Dr. Jörn
*
Viveca Lindfors
Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors (December 29, 1920 – October 25, 1995) was a Swedish stage, film, and television actress. She won an Emmy Award and a Silver Bear for Best Actress.
Biography
Lindfors was born in Uppsala, Sweden, the d ...
as Nurse Doris
*
Nils Lundell as Olsson
*
Gudrun Brost as Nurse Olga
*
Åke Grönberg
Karl Åke Edvard Grönberg (26 March 1914 – 15 September 1969) was a Swedish film actor who appeared in nearly 100 films. Grönberg was a versatile stage personality of his day, performing as a singer, variety artist, actor, in musical show ...
as Herman Karlsson
*
Barbro Kollberg
Barbro Kollberg (27 December 1917 – 6 March 2014) was a Swedish film actress. Born in Eskilstuna, Södermanlands län, Sweden, she starred in Ingmar Bergman's 1946 '' It Rains on Our Love''. She lived to be 96.
Selected filmography
* ...
as Irma Svensson, maid
*
Barbro Ribbing as Margit Wall
*
Henrik Schildt as Einar Franke
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Sten Lindgren as Dr. Nizzen
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Gösta Cederlund
Gösta Cederlund, ''Gustaf ("Gösta") Edvard Cederlund'', (6 March 1888 – 4 December 1980) was a Swedish actor and film director. He was a popular character actor from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Selected filmography
* '' A Dangerous Wooing'' ...
as Prof. Wall
*
Karin Kavli
Karin Kavli (bon Karin Kristina Margareta Carlson; 21 June 1906 – 8 March 1990) was a Swedish stage and film actress and theatre director. She appeared in 20 films between 1933 and 1983.
Selected filmography
* ''Perhaps a Poet'' (1933)
* ...
as Miss Lind, actress
*
Anna Lindahl as Mrs. Olsson
*
Mona Mårtenson
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Early career
Mona grew up in Helsingborg and ...
as Mrs. Andersson
*
Folke Hamrin
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as Dr. Åkerholm
*
Gull Natorp
Gull Natorp (10 January 1880 – 30 April 1962) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in more than 70 films between 1913 and 1956.
Selected filmography
* ''Skottet'' (1914) - Maid
* ''Hans hustrus förflutna'' (1915) - Countess Flemming ...
as Nurse Dagmar
*
Arthur Fischer as Sailor
*
Bellan Roos
Bellan Roos (25 May 1901 – 8 April 1990) was a Swedish actress. She appeared in more than 70 films and television shows between 1933 and 1979.
Selected filmography
* '' Boman's Boy'' (1933)
* ''Simon of Backabo'' (1934)
* '' Under False ...
as Mrs. Karlsson
*
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as Nurse Dagmar
*
Ingrid Envall
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as Mrs. Berglund
*
Erik Hell
Erik Hell (11 August 1911 – 11 March 1973) was a Swedish actor. Hell was born in Kalliokoski, Finland, to a Norwegian father and a Finnish mother. He moved to Sweden with his family in 1918 during the Finnish Civil War. He married the actre ...
as First Mate
*
Bertil Hilbert as Dr. Jönsson
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Gerda Landgren as Mrs. Lundkvist
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Greta Liming as Mrs. Krantz
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Helge Mauritz
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The name is derived from Proto-Norse ''Hailaga'' with its original meaning being ''dedicated to the gods''. For its Slavic version, see Oleg. Its feminine equivalent is Olga.
...
as Sterner, engineer
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Ruth Stevens
Ruth Stevens (born Ruth Astrid Frideborg Nilsson; 21 March 1903 – 27 March 1989) was a Swedish stage and film actress. She was generally cast playing degenerate young woman. Nordic National Cinemas p.168 She was married to the film director Gö ...
as Mrs. Lorell
References
Bibliography
* Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. ''Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
External links
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1942 films
Swedish drama films
1942 drama films
1940s Swedish-language films
Films directed by Ivar Johansson
Swedish black-and-white films
1940s Swedish films
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