
Eva Dahlbeck
Highest Rated: 100% Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Lowest Rated: 27% All These Women (1964)
Birthday: Mar 8, 1920
Birthplace: Saltsjö-Duvnäs, Sweden
The cool, elegantly beautiful blonde Dahlbeck appeared in films by Gustaf Molander and others from 1942, switching from comedy to drama with apparent ease. A gifted and versatile performer, Dahlbeck gave a landmark performance, spanning from girlish naivete to middle-aged despair, in Alf Sjoberg's powerful tale of a long-suffering rural woman, "Only a Woman" (1949). Outside of Sweden, however, she is perhaps best-known for her finely controlled performances in several Ingmar Bergman films. Her first with the director was "Kvinnors vantan/The Secrets of Women" (released in Sweden in 1952; in the USA in 1961). Although made during Bergman's most fruitful dark period, the film is a light-hearted comedy with Dahlbeck as the other woman in one of the episodes. Dahlbeck is also recalled as Desiree, the actress and former mistress of a lawyer, in Bergman's comedy "Smiles of a Summer Night" (1955). She received the Best Actress award at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival for her turn as a woman coping with a miscarriage in Bergman's poignant "Brink of Life."





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No Score Yet | 50% | The Creatures | Michele Quellec (Character) | - | 1966 |
27% | 43% | All These Women | Adelaide (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Loving Couples | Mrs. Landborg (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | 83% | The Counterfeit Traitor | Ingrid Erickson (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Matter of Morals | Eva Walderman (Character) | - | 1961 |
50% | 85% | Brink of Life | Stina Andersson (Character) | - | 1957 |
50% | 74% | Dreams | Susanne (Character) | - | 1955 |
100% | 89% | Smiles of a Summer Night | Desiree Armfeldt (Character) | - | 1955 |
100% | 77% | A Lesson in Love | Marianne Erneman (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Village | Wanda Piwonska (Character) | - | 1953 |
88% | 75% | Waiting Women | Karin (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eva | Susanne (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Only a Mother | Maria (Character) | - | 1949 |