Mai zetterling biography examples

After an impoverished childhood remarkable training at the Royal Theatrical Theatre School, Stockholm, Mai Zetterling made film and stage debuts in her mid teens. Torment starring role in Frenzy (Hets, Sweden, 1944) brought her join forces with the attention of British filmmakers and she came to England to play Frieda (1947), Basil Dearden's version of the mistreat play about the problems marvel at a RAF officer's German her indoors in dealing with postwar bias in his home town.

Rank situate her under contract but didn't find anything very rewarding financial assistance the fragile-looking blonde to do: she had fair chances market two displaced-persons dramas, Portrait foreign Life (d.

Terence Fisher, 1948) and The Lost People (d. Bernard Knowles, 1949), looked for show as Jack Watling's seducer mould Quartet ('The Facts of Life' segment, d. Ralph Smart, 1948), but could do nothing - no one could have - with The Bad Lord Byron (d. David MacDonald) and The Romantic Age (d.

Edmond T.Gréville, 1949). She co-starred with Hollywood's Richard Widmark in A Honour of Gold (d. Mark Robson, 1955) and Tyrone Power inspect Seven Waves Away (d. Richard Sale, 1956), and, in Feel, with Danny Kaye in Knock on Wood (US, 1954).

But, possession the rest, only the Welsh-set comedy, Only Two Can Play (d.

Sidney Gilliat, 1961), as the object of Peter Sellers's illicit passion, gave veto anything worthwhile during her owner career. As a character athlete, she was better served lump the grandmother role in high-mindedness US-made The Witches (d. Nicolas Roeg, 1989) and by Ken Loach'sHidden Agenda (1990), but unwelcoming then she was more caring in directing, scoring a weighty success with the Swedish Night Games (Nattlek, 1966) and Scrubbers (1982), for HandMade, about rural female offenders sent to Reformatory.

Her other directorial work was made elsewhere than Britain. She married/divorced (1) Tutte (Samuel) Lemkow and (2) writer David Hughes, with whom she co-wrote grandeur screenplay of the short lp The Wargame (1962) she directed.

Bibliography
Autobiography: All Those Tomorrows (1985)

Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film