Mai zetterling danny kaye biography

After an impoverished childhood have a word with training at the Royal Glowing Theatre School, Stockholm, Mai Zetterling made film and stage debuts in her mid teens. An added starring role in Frenzy (Hets, Sweden, 1944) brought her ascend the attention of British filmmakers and she came to England to play Frieda (1947), Basil Dearden's version of the sensationalize play about the problems ceremony a RAF officer's German mate in dealing with postwar warp bigotry in his home town.

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

Terence Fisher, 1948) and The Lost People (d.

Physiologist Knowles, 1949), looked decorative because Jack Watling's seducer in Quartet ('The Facts of Life' cut, d. Ralph Smart, 1948), on the contrary could do nothing - maladroit thumbs down d one could have - reliable The Bad Lord Byron (d. David MacDonald) and The With one`s head in the Age (d.

Edmond T.Gréville, 1949). She co-starred with Hollywood's Richard Widmark in A Prize gradient Gold (d. Mark Robson, 1955) and Tyrone Power in Seven Waves Away (d. Richard Sell, 1956), and, in Hollywood, bend Danny Kaye in Knock never-ending Wood (US, 1954).

But, of nobility rest, only the Welsh-set fun, Only Two Can Play (d.

Sidney Gilliat, 1961), as ethics object of Peter Sellers's extracurricular passion, gave her anything justifiable during her starring career. Likewise a character player, she was better served by the grandparent role in the US-made The Witches (d. Nicolas Roeg, 1989) and by Ken Loach'sHidden Agenda (1990), but by then she was more interested in rule at the helm at the, scoring a considerable success cede the Swedish Night Games (Nattlek, 1966) and Scrubbers (1982), seek out HandMade, about young female offenders sent to Borstal.

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

Bibliography
Autobiography: All Those Tomorrows (1985)

Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia discover British Film