Marta Torén

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Märta Torén (born May 21, 1925 in Stockholm , † February 19, 1957 ) was a Swedish actress .

Life

Torén is the daughter of Helge Torén and Dagny Frisell. She had her first small film appearance in 1942 in the Swedish film Rospiggar . She went to Hollywood and was signed to Universal Studios for three years . She made her Hollywood debut in 1948 in the film Casbah - Forbidden Alleys alongside Peter Lorre and Yvonne De Carlo . On June 13, 1949, it graced the front page of Life magazine . She played one of her best-known roles, now under contract with Columbia Pictures , in 1951 as Violette at the side of Humphrey Bogart and Lee J. Cobb in the US production Sirocco - Between Cairo and Damascus by director Curtis Bernhardt .

The following year she became an American citizen and married the film producer Leonardo Bercovici. In 1953 she moved to Rome with her husband and had a daughter. She now worked increasingly in European films. Her last film appearance was alongside Amedeo Nazzari , directed by César Fernández Ardavín, in the Spanish-Italian production La puerta abierta in 1957. After returning to her roots and returning to theater in Stockholm, she suddenly died at the age of only 31 Years from a cerebral haemorrhage.

Filmography

  • 1942: Rospiggar
  • 1943: Ombyte av tåg
  • 1946: Eviga Lankar
  • 1948: Casbah - Forbidden Alleys (Casbah)
  • 1948: The Man Without a Face (Rogues' Regiment)
  • 1949: Illegal Entry
  • 1949: Sword in the Desert
  • 1950: One Way Street
  • 1950: Spy Hunt
  • 1950: Deported
  • 1950: Mystery Submarine
  • 1951: Sirocco - Between Cairo and Damascus (Sirocco)
  • 1952: Budapest does not answer (Assignment: Paris)
  • 1952: The Man Who Did n't Know Himself (The Man Who Watched Trains Go By)
  • 1953: Puccini - darling of women, master of melodies (Puccini)
  • 1954: Magdalena - Diary of a Lost Woman (Maddalena)
  • 1954: Casa Ricordi
  • 1954: L'ombra
  • 1955: Change of Heart (La vena d'oro)
  • 1956: Tormento d'amore
  • 1957: La puerta abierta

Web links

Commons : Märta Torén  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Movie Poster of the Week: "Assignment - Paris" and the Anselmo Ballester Posters of Märta Torén . Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  2. ^ Beauty Lies in the Eye of the Beholder . Retrieved February 6, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Torén, Marta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1957
Place of death Stockholm , Sweden