Mai zetterling autobiography vs biography
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Mai Zetterling
Swedish actress (1925–1994)
Mai Zetterling | |
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Zetterling from a promotional postcard for Quartet (1948) | |
| Born | Mai Elisabeth Zetterling (1925-05-24)24 May 1925 Västerås, Sweden |
| Died | 17 March 1994(1994-03-17) (aged 68) London, England |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, film director |
| Years active | 1941–1994 |
| Spouses | Tutte Lemkow (m. 1944; div. 1953)David Hughes (m. 1958; div. 1979) |
| Children | 2 |
Mai Elisabeth Zetterling (Swedish pronunciation:[ˈmajːˈsɛ̂tːɛˌɭɪŋ]; 24 May 1925 – 17 March 1994)[1] was a Swedish film director, novelist and actress.[2][3][4][5][6]
Early life
[edit]Zetterling was born in Västerås, Sweden to a working class family.[7] She started her career as an actor at the age of 17 at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, the Swe
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A Cinema of Obsession: The Life and Work of Mai Zetterling 2019008294, 9780299322304
Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Star as Documentarist and Filmmaker: 1959–1963
2. Return to Sweden as a Feature Filmmaker: 1964–1966
3. The Tide Turns: 1967–1969
4. Isolation and Obsession: 1970–1973
5. Transnational Feminist Filmmaking: 1974–1980
6. Returning to Fiction in Film and Television: 1981–1989
Epilogue: Nevertheless, She Persisted
Notes
Films by Mai Zetterling
Bibliography
Index
Citation preview
A Cinema of Obsession
Wisconsin Film Studies Patr ick McGill ig an Ser ies Edit or
A Cinema of Obsession The Life and Work of Mai Zetterling
Mariah Larsson
The University of Wisconsin Press
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After an impoverished childhood and training at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School, Stockholm, Mai Zetterling made film and stage debuts in her mid teens. Her starring role in Frenzy (Hets, Sweden, 1944) brought her to the attention of British filmmakers and she came to England to play Frieda (1947), Basil Dearden's version of the stage play about the problems of a RAF officer's German bride in dealing with postwar prejudice in his home town.
Rank put her under contract but didn't find anything very rewarding for the fragile-looking blonde to do: she had fair chances in two displaced-persons dramas, Portrait from Life (d. Terence Fisher, 1948) and The Lost People (d. Bernard Knowles, 1949), looked decorative as Jack Watling's seducer in 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 Hollywo