Maritta Marke
Acting
Biography
Maritta Marke, born Asta Margit Svensson, was a Swedish stage and screen actress, and singer. She made her stage debut in the operetta "Lyckoflickan" in 1927. Her first film was in Gustaf Edgren's "Trötte Teodor" (1931).
Born: June 30, 1905
Place of Birth: Vanstad, Malmöhus län, Sweden
Known For
Kvartetten som sprängdes
Woman of Darkness
Sweden 1889. The young Per Nilsson has a very dominant mother, Anna Månsdotter. His father died many years ago and he and his mother have for a long time been in a incestuous relationship. But Per marries Hanna for the sake of her money and Anna is mean and evil towards her, and Per refuses to have sex with her. She starts to suspect that something is going on between her husband and stepmother.
Mannequin in Red
A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to kill her.
Klasskamrater
Newly graduated teacher Anna-Greta is courted by a senior student.
June Night
A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
The Phantom Carriage
The third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel of the same name. The drinker David Holm gets killed right on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve will face the death coachman, which happens to be his old friend Georges. Together, reliving the events of the past, and David becomes aware that he ruined the lives of two women who both loved him.
Får jag låna din fru?
Bertil Lund works at the wholesaling company Everything for the Baby. The supervisor Fredriksson is considering promoting him to vice-president but there is one obstacle: Bertil is yet unmarried and is thus considered unsuitable. But Bertil's friend Torbjörn has an idea: Bertil can borrow Torbjörn's wife Ulla and tell everybody that she is his wife. When his colleagues at work hears that he is married, Bertil has a lot of problems to deal with. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
When Darkness Falls
Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in peace and quiet but on Christmas Eve, the grocer is brutally murdered with an axe. Police inspector Christer Wijk comes to the small village to find the murderer. He soon discovers the puzzle of evidence that makes almost everybody a suspect.
The Yellow Car
On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the President Hurkas. One of the tourists has evidence against the perpetrators, and is killed when the coach reaches Sweden. Another passenger observes how one of the perpetrators is picked up by a yellow car. She is kidnapped and locked up in a mental hospital.
Guest House Paradise
Paradiset is a boarding house in the archipelago of Stockholm, run by the strict Elvira Pettersson, and with a large variety of guests. Her maid Lotta quits her job but when she leaves she accidentally forgets to turn off the iron. However, her brother Julle sneaks back one night to turn it off. When he is discovered, he tries to make them believe that he is the great Argentine opera singer Don Carlos they have been waiting for
Filmography
as Ester
as Dam med hund i parken
as Stina Edvards
as Hostess
as Alice Broman
as Tourist
as Mrs. Antonsson
as Elsa Magnusson
as Gerda Rosén
as Anna-Greta's landlady
as Miss Vanja
as Eva Berg
as Birgit Bergman
as Lotta Bergström
as Maria Barke
as Karin
as Anette
as Märta Larsson
as Lina
as Black sheep