Else Frölich
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Died | September 15, 1960 | (aged 80)
Else Frölich (August 31, 1880 – September 15, 1960), was a Norwegian-Danish star of silent film.[1]
Biography
[edit]She was born Eli Marie Thaulow to a Danish mother, Ingeborg Charlotte Gad (1852–1908), and a Norwegian father, the impressionist painter Frits Thaulow.[2] Her paternal grandfather was the wealthy Norwegian pharmacist Harald Thaulow (1815-1881). Her brother was the Norwegian author Harald Thaulow (1887-1971), who wrote under the pseudonym John Hell.
She often acted for the Danish Nordisk Film company, starring alongside Danish actor Valdemar Psilander.[3]
Personal life
[edit]On June 9, 1903 she married Danish opera singer Louis de la Cruz Frölich (1872 -1952), an internationally known interpreter of the works of Wagner.[4] [5] They had one daughter, Ingeborg, in 1904, and divorced after only being married for a year. In 1916 she married Danish film director and screenwriter A. W. Sandberg (1887-1938), and they, too, divorced.
References
[edit]- ^ Fullerton, John (1998). Celebrating 1895: The Centenary of Cinema. National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television (Great Britain). pp. xvi. ISBN 9781864620153.
- ^ "Norway Baptisms, 1634-1927". Familysearch.org.
- ^ Niver, Kemp R. (2023). Motion Pictures from the Library of Congress Paper Print Collection, 1894-1912. Berkley, California: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-33410-6.
- ^ "Norway Church Books, 1815-1930," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:683H-58VZ), Entry for Louis de La Cruz Frølieh and Eli Marie Thaulow, 9 June, 1903.
- ^ Hiort, Ivar (1 October 1910). "Yore Landsmænd i Udlandet: Louis Frölich". Masken. 1 (1): 169 – via Internet Archive.