Alice Babs

Acting

Alice Babs

Born 1924-01-26 · Kalmar, Kalmar län, Sweden

Hildur Alice Nilson (26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014), known by her stage name Alice Babs, was a Swedish singer. She worked in a wide number of genres – Swedish folklore, Elizabethan songs and opera. While she was best known internationally as a jazz singer, Babs also competed as Sweden's first annual competition entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958. In 1972 she was named Sweden's Royal Court Singer, the first non-opera singer as such.

Acting credits

Our Gang poster
7.0

A gang of friends lose their club house and collect money for a new one by singing in public.

Our Gang

1942

När molnen skingras poster
NR

The story of the popular Swedish singer Ulla Billquist. The WW2's most famous voice in Sweden. The fate of a female that has never been told before.

När molnen skingras

2016

Swinging at the Castle poster
7.0

Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.

Swinging at the Castle

1959

Swing it, fröken poster
6.7

There is a new English teacher in school, Miss Lind. She moves in with the Nilssons, whose son Sigge prefers playing with his trumpet than to study German. Miss Lind convinces him how important his studies are. But Sanna, a girl in Sigge's class becomes jealous and angry when Sigge prefers his homework instead of her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Swing it, fröken

1956

Young Eagles poster
8.0

The spoiled Marianne has switched cocktail parties to flight lessons.

Young Eagles

1944

Swing it Alice! poster
NR

Documentary on the Swedish jazz singer Alice Babs where interviews with her are interspersed with clips of her performances.

Swing it Alice!

2004

Drömsemester poster
7.0

The Danish school teacher Mogens Jensen is on his holiday through Sweden in a rickety T-Ford.

Drömsemester

1952

Magistrarna på sommarlov poster
6.0

Inga Danell's summer vacation is near. But unfortunately both Inga and her brother Acke have bad grades and are forced to study by the help of a tutor.

Magistrarna på sommarlov

1941

No artwork available
8.0

Britta is the foster daughter of Professor Rydberg. The last 13 years she has lived with him and his son Sven. She and Sven are closely not only at the siblings' way. They are engaged.

Swedish Girl

1955

Alice Babs - Swing It! poster
NR

This documentary film features plenty of archival material, also showing Alice Babs from her private side: as a vivacious lady who has held on to her happy and "up-beat" nature into old age.

Alice Babs - Swing It!

2007

No artwork available
NR

The newsboy Sigge first sells "Terras fönster" on trains. Sweden's smallest car on Stockholm's streets run by Ville Wallén. Bird Sports: Who has made the silent film father?. Night -working streets, taxi drivers and newspaper messages. Garvis Carlsson gives football lessons. Fishing at Lofoten. The father made by Ingmar Bergman for prison. Newspaper flights. Gotland artist David Ahlqvist. Female War Packers at the Ring Wall in Visby. Michel Auclair at Snäckgärdsbaden. Hobby photography city doctor in Visby Nils Bohlin. Alice Babs and her children in a singing cavalcade written by Roland Eiworth.

Terras fönster 4

1950

Musik ombord poster
7.0

Ulla Winther has retired from her singing career to a marriage with two children. But her agent wants her to return and she finally agrees to take part in a charity concert

Musik ombord

1958

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pfingstbummel - Pfingstrummel

1959

No artwork available
NR

It's evening and mother Alice read bedtime stories for her three children.

H.C. Andersens sagor

1952

Det glada kalaset poster
8.0

Bojan runs a guest house, with economical problems. She decides, therefore, to arrange a big party. If she will go bankrupt, it might as well happen to cheerful music.

Det glada kalaset

1946

Thunder and Lightning poster
7.0

The aristocratic count Hägerskiöld is very proud of his swine Helen of Troy who wins a prize every year as the best swine in the area. This year his son Claes-Ferdinand needs money to get married with Pyret, a chorus-girl. His father won't give him any so he steals the swine, expecting that his father will give a reward to anyone who can find her.

Thunder and Lightning

1938

I dur och skur poster
5.3

"In rain and shine" - Sid och Filibert are identical twins. Sid is a theater manager and composer and when his brother arrives to Stockholm for a position at the Museum of Natural History, Filibert is mistaken for Sid.

I dur och skur

1953

Charlie Norman - 60 år som artist poster
NR

Swedish pianist Charlie Norman celebrates 60 years as an artist with a concert featuring some of his frequent collaborators.

Charlie Norman - 60 år som artist

1997

Stjärnbilder poster
10.0

A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.

Stjärnbilder

1995

Minns ni? poster
NR

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

Minns ni?

1993

Det hopfällbara slottet poster
2.0

"The Folding Castle" - a musical drama - Built in blue, lasts longer than you think, can withstand being watch. The shadow of the cloud is slowly eroding, the edges of the giant mountain. The dust of the fairy tale grinds the raw diamonds of life. A story by Gunnel Linde, to music by Bengt Hallberg, choreographer by Tyyne Talvo Cramér, starring Alice Babs.

Det hopfällbara slottet

1968

A Singing Girl poster
6.5

A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.

A Singing Girl

1942

'Swing It' Teacher poster
5.9

Old fashioned teachers are taught swing dancing by a student.

'Swing It' Teacher

1940

Resan till dej poster
7.0

The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough.

Resan till dej

1953