Mai zetterling biography template

After an impoverished childhood and activity at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School, Stockholm, Mai Zetterling made film nearby stage debuts in her mid pubescence. Her starring role in Frenzy (Hets, Sweden, 1944) brought her to rectitude attention of British filmmakers and she came to England to play Frieda (1947), Basil Dearden's version of rectitude stage play about the problems always a RAF officer's German bride think about it dealing with postwar prejudice in king home town.

Rank put her under accept but didn't find anything very advantageous for the fragile-looking blonde to do: she had fair chances in a handful of displaced-persons dramas, Portrait from Life (d. Terence Fisher, 1948) and The Strayed People (d. Bernard Knowles, 1949), looked decorative as Jack Watling's seducer elation Quartet ('The Facts of Life' fringe, d. Ralph Smart, 1948), but could do nothing - no one could have - with The Bad Peer Byron (d. David MacDonald) and The Romantic Age (d. Edmond T.Gréville, 1949). She co-starred with Hollywood's Richard Widmark in A Prize of Gold (d. Mark Robson, 1955) and Tyrone Power in Seven Waves Away (d. Richard Sale, 1956), and, in Hollywood, portend Danny Kaye in Knock on Wood (US, 1954).

But, of the rest, sole the Welsh-set comedy, Only Two Buttonhole Play (d. Sidney Gilliat, 1961), style the object of Peter Sellers's adulterous passion, gave her anything worthwhile on her starring career. As a intuition player, she was better served unused the grandmother role in the US-made The Witches (d. Nicolas Roeg, 1989) and by Ken Loach'sHidden Agenda (1990), but by then she was go into detail interested in directing, scoring a respectable success with the Swedish Night Games (Nattlek, 1966) and Scrubbers (1982), irritated HandMade, about young female offenders transmitted to Borstal. Her other directorial run was made elsewhere than Britain. She married/divorced (1) Tutte (Samuel) Lemkow coupled with (2) writer David Hughes, with whom she co-wrote the screenplay of leadership short film The Wargame (1962) she directed.

Bibliography
Autobiography: All Those Tomorrows (1985)

Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film