Brita Appelgren

Acting

Brita Appelgren

Born 1912-12-21 · Stockholm, Sweden

Disa Brita Jakobina Appelgren was a Swedish actress and dancer. She was prime dancer/ballerina at the Royal Opera 1934 - 1955, and made her film debut as a child actress in Gustaf Molander's "Mälarpirater" (1923).

Acting credits

Artificial Svensson poster
9.3

When silly inventor Svensson gets mistaken for Swedish/American aviator Smith, he is accidentally enlisted in the military and drawn into unexpected romantic affairs.

Artificial Svensson

1929

Minns ni? poster
NR

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

Minns ni?

1993

Father and Son poster
7.0

Mr Markurell the innkeeper has great aspirations for his son and he doesn't hesitate to pull a few strings to ensure his son's success at school, causing great scandal in the process.

Father and Son

1931

His Majesty the Barber poster
7.8

A handsome barber in Sweden doesn't know he's actually the Crown Prince of a Balkan kingdom in this charming Swedish-German comedy that effortlessly weaves together multiple Ruritanian tropes.

His Majesty the Barber

1928

Love and Champagne poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Love and Champagne

1930

Gustaf Edgren - flitig, folklig, framgångsrik filmregissör poster
NR

Documentary about the prolific Swedish director Gustaf Edgren.

Gustaf Edgren - flitig, folklig, framgångsrik filmregissör

1988

Pirates of the Mälaren poster
6.3

Three boys steal a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren.

Pirates of the Mälaren

1923

His English Wife poster
10.0

London socialite Cathleen Paget's adventures in love and misfortune a year after the death of her husband. Ivor Willington and Lionel Jesop play cards for who will be given the shot at flirting with Paget, as to claim her wealth. But when her brother Bruce has lost the family fortune in bad business, Cathleen is suggested to court Nordic giant Birger Holm. The two marry and the families financial problems seem to be at bay, although the life in the northern Sweden is wearing Cathleen down as she misses parties, friends and dancing at the Savoy Hotel.

His English Wife

1927

Tired Theodore poster
8.0

Teodor is afraid to tell his rich wife that he works extra nightly at the sinful hotel Babylon.

Tired Theodore

1931

Knights of the Crown poster
10.0

Conscript Fridolf and his sergeant, Göransson, both try to win the love of sweet Mary. According to an older relative's last will, she will inherit a fortune if she marries the unfortunate Dick Carter. A con man comes to the little town, claiming to be the legitimate Carter.

Knights of the Crown

1930

Skeppsbrutne Max poster
8.0

Max Mattsson gets stranded on a remote island in the archipelago together with four other people and a dog.

Skeppsbrutne Max

1936

Youth poster
9.0

Lisa, Pontus and Herman has formed a small artists’ collective in Stockholm. The successes are rare and occasionally this sets off an irritated mood.

Youth

1927

Flickan från varuhuset poster
7.0

During a night at the big department store a gang of thieves are active, while the CMO is staging a pr coup to increase sales of swimsuits. The clerk Ann Marie and CEO's son Erik, manages to catch the thieves and then spend the night in the store dining and dancing.

Flickan från varuhuset

1933

Perhaps a Gentleman poster
6.0

Director Hugo Berner and Doctor Olof Mellgren have come out of the theater where they have just shown the classic play Pygmalion. Director Mellgren claims that, like Higgins in the play, he can turn a harbor worker into the gentleman.

Perhaps a Gentleman

1935

Ship Ahoy! poster
9.0

In the Swedish small town Kungshamn the journalist Fridolf Svensson writes for the local newspaper Allehanda.

Ship Ahoy!

1931

She Is the Only One poster
8.0

Love entanglements among the upper class of Paris. The young upper-class Parisian Valentin van Zanten has a luxurious lunch-density dinner with the flirtatious Inez Maria, when the "friend" shows up and interferes with his own and successful pre-man manners.

She Is the Only One

1926

The Lady Incendiary poster
8.0

Ragnhild is a girl who enjoys dancing. Her school teacher forbids her to go to the dance hall. She rebels against the ban by setting the hall on fire. The outbreak of fire becomes extremely violent.

The Lady Incendiary

1926

Sten Stensson Stéen från Eslöv på nya äventyr poster
8.0

A traveling theatre company comes to Lund and one of the smallest hotels in town. A female actress gets a key by mistake to a room where Sten Stensson Stéen lives.

Sten Stensson Stéen från Eslöv på nya äventyr

1932

No artwork available
10.0

In the cellar Tuppen in Stockholms Old Town the troubadour Bellman sits with his drinking buddies Fredman, Mollberg, Mowitz and Father Berg.

Ulla, My Ulla

1930