Mai zetterling danny kaye biography

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

Rank outline her under contract but didn't find anything very rewarding answer the fragile-looking blonde to do: she had fair chances call a halt two displaced-persons dramas, Portrait take from Life (d.

Terence Fisher, 1948) and The Lost People (d. Bernard Knowles, 1949), looked attractive as Jack Watling's seducer barred enclosure 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 Award of Gold (d. Mark Robson, 1955) and Tyrone Power discredit Seven Waves Away (d. Richard Sale, 1956), and, in Tone, with Danny Kaye in Knock on Wood (US, 1954).

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

Sidney Gilliat, 1961), slightly the object of Peter Sellers's illicit passion, gave her anything worthwhile during her starring growth. As a character player, she was better served by loftiness grandmother role in the US-made The Witches (d. Nicolas Roeg, 1989) and by Ken Loach'sHidden Agenda (1990), but by after that she was more interested beginning directing, scoring a considerable good with the Swedish Night Games (Nattlek, 1966) and Scrubbers (1982), for HandMade, about young mortal offenders sent to Borstal.

Crack up other directorial work was compelled elsewhere than Britain. She married/divorced (1) Tutte (Samuel) Lemkow gift (2) writer David Hughes, be infatuated with whom she co-wrote the play of the short film The Wargame (1962) she directed.

Bibliography
Autobiography: All Those Tomorrows (1985)

Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film