Margita Alfvén (November 16, 1905 – March 11, 1962) was a Danish-born Swedish

film actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

of the silent and early

sound era A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed befo ...

.Gustafsson p.203 She was the daughter of the composer

Hugo Alfvén Hugo Emil Alfvén (; 1 May 18728 May 1960) was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter. Alfvén was one of Sweden's principal composers. His "Swedish Rhapsody”, written when he was 31, is still one of the best-known pieces of Sw ...

and the artist

Marie Krøyer Marie Triepcke Krøyer Alfvén (11 June 1867 – 25 May 1940) commonly known as Marie Krøyer, was a Danish Painting, painter. She is remembered principally as the wife of Peder Severin Krøyer, one of the most successful members of the artists' ...

. In 1920, at the age of 15, she became engaged to the then 30-year-old

Evert Taube Axel Evert Taube (; 12 March 1890 – 31 January 1976) was a Swedish author, artist, composer and singer. He is widely regarded as one of Sweden's most respected musicians and the foremost troubadour of the Swedish ballad tradition in the 20th c ...

, but the relationship did not last long. 1924–1927 she was married to Henrik Conrad Bohlin.

Selected filmography

* '' Her Little Majesty'' (1925) * ''

The Million Dollars ''The Million Dollars'' (Swedish: ''Dollarmillionen'') is a 1926 Swedish silent film, silent comedy film directed by Sigurd Wallén and starring Margita Alfvén, Richard Lund and Axel Hultman.Gustafsson p.179 It is based on Axel Essén's 1917 nov ...

'' (1926) * '' Uncle Frans'' (1926) * '' Jansson's Temptation'' (1928) *'' Parisiennes'' (1928) * '' The Way Through the Night'' (1929) * ''

Three from the Unemployment Office ''Three from the Unemployment Office'' (German: ''Drei von der Stempelstelle'') is a 1932 German comedy film directed by Eugen Thiele and starring Fritz Kampers, Paul Kemp and Anton Walbrook. The film was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin. ...

'' (1932) * ''

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'' (1932)

References

Bibliography

* Tommy Gustafsson. ''Masculinity in the Golden Age of Swedish Cinema: A Cultural Analysis of 1920s Films''. McFarland, 2014.

External links

* 1905 births 1962 deaths Actresses from Copenhagen Swedish film actresses Danish emigrants to Sweden {{Sweden-film-bio-stub