Signe Hasso

Signe Eleonora Cecilia Hasso ( Larsson; 15 August 1915 – 7 June 2002) was a Swedish actress.

Early life Hasso was born in the Kungsholmen parish of Stockholm in 1915. Her father and grandfather died when she was four, and her mother, grandmother, two siblings, and her shared a single room. Her mother, a former aspiring actress herself, worked as a waffle cook.

Career Hasso's acting career began by accident. When a young actress fell ill, her mother was asked if she knew of any little girl who could act. Hasso later recalled, "I was 12 then and didn't want to go and neither did my sister, so my mother flipped a coin. I lost." Her audition for a Molière play was successful, and she started earning money as an actress. and enrolled as the youngest acting student in its history at the age of 16.

Hasso performed on stage and in film in Sweden. With only a few RKO roles forthcoming, she turned to the stage to make a living. In the mid-1940s, she signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Awards In 1935, Hasso received the Theatre League's De Wahl-stipendium and in 1939 the first Nordic nordiska Gösta Ekmanpriset. In 1972, King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden named her Member 1st Class of the Royal Order of Vasa. – Kristina – hans hustru Emilie Högquist (1939) – Emelie Högqvist Bastard (1940) – Aitanga, nomadepike Stål (1940) – Margit Än en gång Gösta Ekman (1940 short) – Birgit Steen With Open Arms (1940) – Eva Richert The Three of Us (1940) – Kristina, hans hustru Den ljusnande framtid (Bright Prospects, 1941) – Birgit Norén Assignment in Brittany (1943) – Elise Heaven Can Wait (1943) – Mademoiselle The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) – Bettina The Seventh Cross (1944) – Toni Dangerous Partners (1945) – Carola Ballister The House on 92nd Street (1945) – Elsa Gebhardt Johnny Angel (1945) – Paulette Girard Strange Triangle (1946) – Francine Huber A Scandal in Paris (1946) – Therese De Pierremont Where There's Life (1947) – Gen. Katrina Grimovitch A Double Life (1947) – Brita Kaurin To the Ends of the Earth (1948) – Ann Grant Outside the Wall (1950) – Celia Bentner Crisis (1950) – Senora Isabel Farrago This Can't Happen Here (1950) – Vera Irmelin Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales (1952 short) The Sun of St. Moritz (1954) – Gerti Selle Taxi 13 (1954) – Agneta The Magnificent Lie (1955) – Joséphine de Merret Bonanza (1963), episode A Stranger Passed This Way - Christina Vandervort Picture Mommy Dead (1966) – Sister René Code Name: Heraclitus (1967 TV movie) – Lydia Constantine A Reflection of Fear (1972) – Julia Shell Game (1975 TV movie) – Countess The Black Bird (1975) – Dr. Crippen Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976 TV movie) – Fraulein Reichenbach I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) – Helene Winner Take All (1977 TV movie) Evita Peron (1981 TV movie) – Fedora Pappa är död (1982 TV movie) – Sonja Bengtsson Mirrors (1985 TV movie) – Madame Eugenia One Hell of a Guy (1998) – Aunt Vivian

Selected bibliography Momo (1977) Kom slott (1978) Inte än (1988) Om igen (1989) Tidens vän (1990)