Signe Hasso

Signe Hasso ( born August 15, 1915 in Stockholm as Signe Eleonora Cecilia Larsson, † June 7, 2002 in Los Angeles ) was a Swedish- American actress.

Life

Signe Hasso came at the age of 12 years as one of the youngest students ever to the prestigious acting school of the Royal Dramatic Theatre ( Dramaten ) in Stockholm. In 1933 she made ​​her first feature film Tystnadens hus and married Harry Hasso ( artist name by German director Karl Harry Hasso Hartnagel ) and took his ( artist ) name. The marriage lasted but only until 1941.

In 1940 she moved to the U.S., where she completed a contract with RKO Pictures production company. Early on, and not without marketing idea of ​​RKO Pictures, she was touted as "the next Garbo ", an allusion to the honor Oscar winner and screen legend Greta Garbo, also Swedish-American actress. However, the high expectations associated with this comparison could not fulfill Hasso. At the successes Garbo they could not match. Her first notable role was that of the beautiful " Mademoiselle " in Heaven Can Wait (1943 ), directed by Ernst Lubitsch. In the 1940s she performed in The Seventh Cross (1944 ), Johnny Angel ( 1945), An elegant Rogue (1946 ) and A Double Life ( 1947).

In the 1950s, her Hollywood career faltered. After her son Henry in 1954 in a car accident died, she withdrew completely from the American film industry. Until the mid- 1960s, she was seen in either Swedish film productions, American TV series or on stages in New York. In 1966 she returned to the horror movie Picture Mommy Dead to Hollywood.

1972 you said the then King of Sweden Gustav VI. Adolf the Kungliga Vasaorden ( Royal Vasaorden ) at a ceremony similar to the award of the Order of Knights in the UK. In 1989, she also took on the Swedish and American citizenship.

In the late years of her life Hasso was a respected poet and writer and earned with translations into English of Swedish folk songs great recognition. Besides, she was still seen in many productions as an actress. Your last appearance was in a television documentary about Greta Garbo in 2001.

One of her best friends was Peter Stormare, who was also in the last hours of her life with her. In 2002, she died of lung cancer. She received a star on the Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard 7080th

Filmography (selection)

Works (selection)

  • Momo, 1977
  • Com slott, 1978
  • Hoppa hage och andra hoppa rim, 1978
  • Tidens Istvan, Stockholm 1990
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