
Birthday:
05-11-1896
Deathday:
05-07-1975 (78 years)
Birthplace:
Fors, Södermanland, Sweden
Biography
Mary Johnson, born Carlsson, was a Swedish international actress. She made her acting debut as a teenager in 1910. Her first appearance in a film was three years later in "Mannekängen/The Model" (1913) where she met Karl Gerhard Johnson. That film directed by Mauritz Ztiller was never finished. Karl Gerhard Johnson and Mary Carlsson married the same year. She was later married to the Norwegian actor Einar Rød (1920-1931), and the well known German actor Rudolf Klein-Rogge( 1932-1955). Mary Johnson made about 40 feature films during her artistically active years 1913 to 1931.
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The Suburban Vicar
Act like Elin von Prangen
event1917 star_border 5
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"Suburban Priest". The film premiered on September 3 1917 at cinema Sture and Brunkeberg Theatre in Stockholm . The film was shot at the Hasselblad studio on Otterhällan in Gothenburg with exteriors from Gothenburg by Carl Gustaf Florin.
The Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter
Act like Awa
event1918 star_border 5
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"The Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter". The film premiered on April 2 1918 at Brunkeberg Theatre in Stockholm . The film was to be the last feature film that was released from Hasselblad film before it went up in the newly founded Film Industry Skandia. Filming took place at the Hasselblad Studio in Otterhällan with exteriors from Böttö lighthouse outside Gothenburg by Gösta Stäring.
Aktiebolaget Hälsans gåva
event1915
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A travelling circus experience bad times and starts to produce a miracle cure based on cake flour and sugar.
Do You Remember?
Act like (archive footage)
event1935
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Compilation film with scenes from different Swedish silent films, many of the films have since been lost and the only surviving fragments can be found in this film.
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
event1928 star_border 4
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Paul Wegener gives one of his most active performances here as Captain Ramper, a heroic aviator who makes a pioneering flight across the Arctic accompanied only by Ippling, his faithful mechanic (Kurt Gerron). Near the North Pole, their plane develops engine failure and crashes in the desolate wastes. Ippling dies straight off but Ramper finds a supply base containing food which has been left behind by a previous expedition. After fifteen years in the Arctic wastes, Ramper has considerably mutated.
Gunnar Hede's Saga
Act like Ingrid
event1923 star_border 6.5
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Gunnar Hede is raised by a strict mother, who wants him to become respectable to match his family’s wealth. He is more interested in his grandfather, who started as an itinerant violin player, but got rich by leading a herd of wild reindeer south to market. He falls for a violinist working with a married couple of traveling performers and renounces his fortune to go with them. He then tries to earn a fortune by driving reindeer to market, but it doesn’t work out and he goes insane. He is finally restored to sanity by the violinist when she returns with the performers.
Calles nya kläder
event1917 star_border 5
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Calle has to go on the run.
A Modern Robinson
event1920
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The Silfverdahl sisters goes sailing. One of them married, the other one, Brita, not. After a short journey Brita's sweetheart Einar secretly climbs aboard. Agathon, her prospective husband, get seasick and choose to leave the party.
Children of the Night
Act like Violet Holmes
event1916 star_border 6.5
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Violet, employed as a maid of Count Berkow, is wrongly accused of burglary of the Count. After an unjust prison sentence Violet travels to America.
Sex in Chains
Act like Helene - Sommers Frau
event1928 star_border 5.4
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A young man is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term in prison. There he forms a close relationship with his cellmate. Upon his release his wife is concerned as to how prison has changed the man she married.
The Mystery of the Night of the 25th
Act like Marie de Valincourt
event1917 star_border 6.5
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A private investigator is invited to come to an address. He realizes that it is a trap and take some precautions before going there. Once in place, he is overpowered and tied to a chair with a time bomb.
Reveille
Act like Marianne
event1917 star_border 5.2
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Countess Hedvig von Wärnfelt (born Wärnfelt), receives her orphan's granddaughter Marianne to educate her in tukt and her reverence. Marianne is an iron and vibrant young girl, who also carries theater grills. The Countess is staggered over her uneducated facials and treats her severely, hard and joyless.
Between Life and Death
Act like Elsa Warren
event1917 star_border 6
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"Between life and death" - Dr Brinck and his assistant Inger Holm spend days and nights in his laboratory to experiment with a revolutionary medical cure for poisoning. Inger Holm is deeply in love with his boss. When the two scientists one day go to bed and visit an outdoor server, Brinck's manufacturer will meet Warren and his daughter Elsa and get an opportunity to help Elsa with a damaged foot. Thanks to him, he is invited to a party in the manufacturer's luxurious home...
The Mannequin
event1913
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Lili is a young and courageous woman. She does things that create confusion. She suddenly begin to act in a film's plot in a movie theater, or take a mannequin from a shop.
Sir Arne's Treasure
Act like Elsalill
event1919 star_border 7.1
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Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled with gold. The only survivor is Elsalill, who moves to relatives in Marstrand. There she meets a charming young officer- Sir Archi- and she soon understands that he was one of the murderers.
Was die Kinder ihren Eltern verschweigen
Act like Else
event1927
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What the children conceal from their parents. Banned at first in Europe. Released in the U.S.
Familjens traditioner
Act like Inga
event1920
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"Family Traditions" - The young Baron Robert falls in love with his distant relative Helga.
You have to forgive a woman everything
event1931
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"A woman must forgive everything"- Brunhilde's parents expects her to marry Mr. Kuhn. To avoid this Brunhilde makes plans with her lover and piano teacher. She will wear the ugliest possible dress and sing horribly when she meets with Kuhn.
Artisten - Im Zauber der Manege
Act like Helga Hardt
event1928
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The magic of the circus stables. Controversies and small private conflicts between the artists, clowns and entertainers.
Nobelpristagaren
Act like Violet Starford
event1918 star_border 5
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"The Nobel Prize Winner" - Dr. Henry Arel and his fiancee, Violet Starford, joins the war as paramedics. During a flight attack, Violet is badly hurt. The doctor makes a very bold intervention in the hope that Violet will survive.
Storstadsfaror
Act like Inga Gregor
event1918
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"Big City Dangers" - About two orphanages children's upbringing in the countryside. Brynolf travels to his father in America. Inga moves to Stockholm for work. In the city lurks many dangers.
Johan Ulfstjerna
Act like Agda
event1923 star_border 5
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The story of a man who makes a great sacrifice for his country and for his son. Based on the play of the same title by Tor Hedberg.
The Victory of Love
event1916
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Farm girl Olga Ström is seduced by the Hans Brandt, who soon abandons her, even though she carries their child.
The House of Lies
Act like Hedwig
event1926
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Adaptation of Ibsen's play Vildanden.
A Fortune Hunter
Act like Gertrud Wulffsdotter
event1921 star_border 7
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Historical drama which features Gösta Ekman as the dashing rogue who steals the heart of the ethereal Mary Johnson.
Ministerpresidenten
Act like Guest
event1916 star_border 6
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Jean Bazard (Carl Barcklind) and the lawyer Alphonse Carrel (Arvid Hammarlund) are rivals of the beautiful Rose Legrange (Maja Cassel), but Bazard wins her love. Carrel is more successful in his shameful economic speculations together with banker Leroux (Manne Göthson), who is Roses's uncle.
Puss in Boots
Act like Helga Anthon, "Pips"
event1918 star_border 5
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Young Jörgen Steenfeld is the heir of it over the chimney-indebted estate Steensgaard and unable to clear up its finances. He is being looked after by his old friend, "Mästerkatten", ie the enterprising, charming but somewhat irreplaceable Karl Konstantin Kattrup, who has been relegated from the university. Kattrup, involved as a manager at Steensgaard. Steenfeld receives visits by county governor Markdanner and her daughter Rose. The Countess is planning a marriage between Rose and Jörgen, but Jörgen is secretly in love with the orphan Helga Anthon, called Pips. The conditions are further complicated by the appearance of Kattrup and Rose.
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