Margit Manstad

Acting

Margit Manstad

Born — Died

1902-07-21 — 1996-03-23

Place of birth

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Margit Elfrida Cecilia Manstad was a Swedish stage and screen actress. She performed at Oscarsteatern, Blancheteatern, The Roya Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Gothenburg's City Theatre and Wasa Theater.

Known for

Fear poster
4.8

"The Fear of an Unfaithful Woman" - Inge Duhan lives with her husband, the lawyer Erich Duhan, and her little daughter Susi in Berlin. Inge is a very attractive woman. She loves her husband and has always been faithful to him. On a holiday trip to the French Riviera Inge meet the charming painter Francard. A brief affair begins that turns into blackmail.

Fear

1928

The Kingdom of Rye poster
7.5

Based on a Finnish poem, The Kingdom of Rye is a gorgeous romantic drama set in rural northern Sweden during the harvest. It features a young couple whose love affair is fraught with Hardy-esque complications and an unhappily married wife of the landowner.

The Kingdom of Rye

1929

Getting Married poster
7.0

Paul Rosenkrans is a Captain of the Swedish Navy and has been married to his Signe for six years. They are still as in love as if they were newly engaged. But when Paul's leave is over for this time, Signe meets an old good friend, the plucky suffragette Annie Behrman, chairman of "Women's Political Freedom Party". Annie has written a book about the woman's slavery in marriage and begins to process Signe with her ideas that soon makes Signe see her marriage in a whole new light.

Getting Married

1926

No artwork available
8.0

A series of events during a summer in Anna-Clara's life.

Anna-Clara and Her Brothers

1923

His Majesty must wait poster
8.0

New Year's Eve in Stockholm. Carl Johan Stjärna is a poor aristocrat who has to borrow money from his manservant Frans to a be able to enjoy a proper celebration.

His Majesty must wait

1931

Nygifta poster
10.0

The young architect Gunnar Bergstrand marries the Norwegian Eva, against his parents' wishes.

Nygifta

1941

Film credits

1940s · 13 titles

Nygifta poster
10.0

The young architect Gunnar Bergstrand marries the Norwegian Eva, against his parents' wishes.

Nygifta

1941

När ungdomen vaknar poster
9.0

Liv and Kåre both come from broken families bursting with frustration and aggression's. Having found each other they now feel supported and loved.

När ungdomen vaknar

1943

Åh, en sån' advokat poster
4.5

Driver Elof "Loffe" Karlsson ends his employment with the director Bergfeldt, who is divorcing wife Karin. He takes the place of a lawyer Nyberg, provides Mrs. Bergfeldt a restaurant. This is where the young and cute waitress Greta and Loffe become acquainted. Greta Bergman is involved in a large inheritance case, and as a lawyer Nyberg agreed to take care for her. But Nyberg is a swindler who himself wants to access the money.

Åh, en sån' advokat

1940

Wandering with the Moon poster
6.7

Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of money. He falls in love with the young actress Pia and together they leave, meeting a string of peculiar characters: a vagabond, a friendly vicar and a cynical adventurer.

Wandering with the Moon

1945

Three Sons poster
9.0

Drama evolving around three brothers who join the air force to become flight cadets. When Åke's plane goes missing, the other two must find him.

Three Sons

1945

Sextuplets poster
7.0

A local newspaper editor in northern Sweden starts to spread a rumor that sextuplets has been born. In reality it turns out that it's only two sets of twins.

Sextuplets

1942

No artwork available
7.5

Sonja meet Curt in a taxi cab. By mistake, each believes that the other is a rich member of the upper class. They meet on a date, but since neither wants to reveal the truth about themselves, they both get more and more caught in the web of lies they have produced.

Hennes melodi

1940

No artwork available
9.0

Harriet Rosenberg has traveled with her mother to the mountains to find a suitable victim to marry.

Jag älskar dig, argbigga

1946

I paradis ... poster
8.0

The Stockholm publisher Adam, a wealthy gentleman with a favorable appearance, has completely undeservedly gained a reputation for being a great Don Juan. Women of all ages are drawn to him and give him their invitations. To be at peace, Adam escapes on his sailboat out into the archipelago and settles down on a small islet. But the ladies follow him and in their footsteps follow jealous fiancés and angry courting cavaliers.

I paradis ...

1941

Lasse-Maja poster
10.0

About the Swedish trickster and thief Lars "Lasse-Maja" Molin. He often disguised himself and lived as a woman in 1800s. He takes place as a kitchen boy for a bailiff and manages to prevent him from taking over the cottage where his beloved lives. His true identity will, however, be disclosed and he is forced to become an outlaw.

Lasse-Maja

1941

Idel ädel adel poster
4.3

A newly married Baron plans to sell his castle. His wife, who loves to live in a castle, knows nothing about the sale.

Idel ädel adel

1945

No artwork available
10.0

A free fantasy about the Swedish poet and adventurer Lars Wivallius.

En äventyrare

1942

Familjen Björck poster
6.5

The Björcks are an ordinary middle-class family in a large Stockholm apartment with with two children, Greta and Ville. But the family's happiness is threatened in two ways: Greta prefers Börje Schack instead of the well-behaving Bertil. And the flirtatious Mrs. Holten tries to snare Mr. Björck.

Familjen Björck

1940

1930s · 10 titles

His Majesty must wait poster
8.0

New Year's Eve in Stockholm. Carl Johan Stjärna is a poor aristocrat who has to borrow money from his manservant Frans to a be able to enjoy a proper celebration.

His Majesty must wait

1931

The voice of the heart poster
8.0

Birgit Storm meets variety artist Jim Gray at a bar. They dance with each other, marry and have children. The Jim leaves to go to war.

The voice of the heart

1930

Bombi Bitt and Me poster
5.5

Bombi Bitt is the mischievous boy in 1930s Skåne whom no one can control – and the stationmaster's strict son Eli becomes his admiring companion. Together they experience a series of thrilling and cheerful adventures among characters such as Jöns Pumpare, the painter Vricklund, the sugar whore Franskan and the horse thief Nils Gallilé. The highlight is the grand visit to Kivik Market. Based on Fritiof Nilsson Piraten's autobiographical debut book.

Bombi Bitt and Me

1936

The Two of Us poster
8.0

Widower Robert Rossiter lives in New York with his two teenage children. When he visits a fashion house one day, he falls in love with the store clerk Joyce Roamer.

The Two of Us

1930

A Little Flirt poster
5.0

Orphan Didi is raised by her aunts and in love with her ward, the surgeon Dr. Gunnar Green. He is more interested in the stars of the theatre so Didi decides to fight for him.

A Little Flirt

1934

Vad veta väl männen? poster
8.0

Hjalmar Björklund and his daughter Margit runs a second-hand bookshop in a small Swedish town.

Vad veta väl männen?

1933

No artwork available
7.0

A widow wants to sell a hotel that her daughter owns. When the sales plans reach her daughter, she decides to take a look at why the hotel will be sold. She enters the hotel under false name.

Mamma gifter sig

1937

Atlantäventyret poster
4.8

Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way over the Atlantic. His niece Tusse also stows away on the ship disguised as a boy.

Atlantäventyret

1934

The Boys at Storholmen poster
10.0

The Sjölund family on Lillholmen in the archipelago of Stockholm is quite religious and is considered suitable for dealing with odd specimens of wild youth placed there by one of Stockholm's youth associations for young girls.

The Boys at Storholmen

1932

Modern Wives poster
9.0

The architect Georg Wall is sitting in his spacious Stockholm apartment. He has been waiting several hours since lunch for his significantly younger wife, Lola Wall, to appear. When she eventually comes home, she wants a divorce.

Modern Wives

1932

1920s · 13 titles

Fear poster
4.8

"The Fear of an Unfaithful Woman" - Inge Duhan lives with her husband, the lawyer Erich Duhan, and her little daughter Susi in Berlin. Inge is a very attractive woman. She loves her husband and has always been faithful to him. On a holiday trip to the French Riviera Inge meet the charming painter Francard. A brief affair begins that turns into blackmail.

Fear

1928

The Kingdom of Rye poster
7.5

Based on a Finnish poem, The Kingdom of Rye is a gorgeous romantic drama set in rural northern Sweden during the harvest. It features a young couple whose love affair is fraught with Hardy-esque complications and an unhappily married wife of the landowner.

The Kingdom of Rye

1929

Getting Married poster
7.0

Paul Rosenkrans is a Captain of the Swedish Navy and has been married to his Signe for six years. They are still as in love as if they were newly engaged. But when Paul's leave is over for this time, Signe meets an old good friend, the plucky suffragette Annie Behrman, chairman of "Women's Political Freedom Party". Annie has written a book about the woman's slavery in marriage and begins to process Signe with her ideas that soon makes Signe see her marriage in a whole new light.

Getting Married

1926

No artwork available
8.0

A series of events during a summer in Anna-Clara's life.

Anna-Clara and Her Brothers

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

Parisiennes poster
5.8

A house in Paris happens to have two families living there with the same last name. In one apartment lives opera singer Gambetta Duval with his two daughters, Jeanne and Nita. In the second apartment lives old lady Duval with her grandchild Philippa and an her lodger, the physician Leon Monnier. Jeanne is secretly in love with Dr. Monnier who is secretly in love with Nita, who is secretly having an affair with the great playwright Armand de Marny.

Parisiennes

1928

A Maid among Maids poster
7.0

Alice is engaged with Sven. She is interested in having fun and dancing, preferably with Faustino della Novarro. Sven gets upset by her behavior. They break the engagement. Alice finds work as a maid on a farm.

A Maid among Maids

1924

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 Dream Waltz poster
9.0

This is the story of Olof Svensson who works as a streetcar conductor in Stockholm. In his free time he is a music composer.

The Dream Waltz

1929

The Norrtull Gang poster
6.6

A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles and the conflict between love and work.

The Norrtull Gang

1923

The Alley Cat poster
9.5

A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.

The Alley Cat

1929

The Lady of the Camellias poster
7.0

Alexandre Dumas' tragic love story between Marguerite Gautier and Armand Duval.

The Lady of the Camellias

1925

Der Tanzstudent poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Tanzstudent

1928