Märta Torén
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Märta Torén (21 May 1926 – 19 February 1957) was a Swedish stage and film actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Torén began her career on the stage and from 1947 she appeared in films. She appeared on the cover of the June 13 issue of Life Magazine in 1949. One of her most important roles was opposite Humphrey Bogart in Sirocco (1951). Torén died at the age of 31 from a brain hemorrhage. Description above from the Wikipedia article Märta Torén, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 21, 1926
Deathday: February 19, 1957
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Sirocco
1951-06-13
Sirocco
Overview: A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-13
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The Shadow
1954-12-26
The Shadow
Overview: A painter's wife becomes ill. A friend comes to comfort him,but he falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-26
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Deported
1950-11-01
Deported
Overview: The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-01
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One Way Street
1950-04-01
One Way Street
Overview: After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-01
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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
1952-12-01
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
Overview: A meek teller thinks he's killed his boss. He flees with a box of cash hoping for a new life with his younger mistress.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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Illegal Entry
1949-06-01
Illegal Entry
Overview: Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry. Howard Duff, who later worked with DeCordova on the TV series Mr. Adams and Eve, stars as Bert Powers, an undercover agent for the U.S. Department of Immigration. While attempting to bring a vicious gang of alien smugglers to justice, Powers falls in love with Anna Duvak (Marta Toren), a gang member who is Not What She Seems.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-01
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Casbah
1948-04-01
Casbah
Overview: Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.
Genres: Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-01
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Assignment: Paris
1952-09-04
Assignment: Paris
Overview: Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-04
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Changing Trains
1943-01-30
Changing Trains
Overview: Inga, an unemployed actress meets a sweetheart Kim, from days long gone at a train station. Over coffee they reminisce about their romance and how Inga left Kim for a moderately successful acting career and the attractive theater director Leo Waller.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-30
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House of Ricordi
1954-12-01
House of Ricordi
Overview: The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Genres: History Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Mystery Submarine
1950-12-01
Mystery Submarine
Overview: Posing as an ex-German medical officer, a U. S. Navy Intelligence Officer sets out to rescue a kidnapped scientist, and sink a Nazi submarine, hiding off the coast of South America.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-01
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Maddalena
1954-08-07
Maddalena
Overview: The story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local priest Don Vincenzo faces a crisis when the girl selected to play the Virgin Mary shows up pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-08-07
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Rogues' Regiment
1948-12-28
Rogues' Regiment
Overview: A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-28
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Sword in the Desert
1949-08-24
Sword in the Desert
Overview: First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-24
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The Golden Vein
1955-09-30
The Golden Vein
Overview: Jealous of his widowed mother's new lover, a boy does everything to separate them. Then, after he realizes their profound feelings for each other, he tries to reunite them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-30
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Johansson och Vestman
1946-09-03
Johansson och Vestman
Overview: Olga Hallman is waiting outside Långholmens prison. Out comes Adolf Johansson. Released after eight years for manslaughter. Olga takes him to a cafe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-03
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Spy Hunt
1950-06-08
Spy Hunt
Overview: Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a microfilm in the collar of one of the animals. But when the train is derailed in the Swiss Alps and the panthers escape, she is forced to involve him in her mission, which now includes enemy agents hunting the microfilm, the animals, Catherine and Roger.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-08
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Eviga länkar
1946-12-04
Eviga länkar
Overview: Hilda Granström runs a ladies' tailoring shop. Her husband Richard is a cellist in the Opera Orchestra. Their three daughters help out in Hilda's shop. Richard's 80-year-old mother, who once was a dancer, also lives with the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-04
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La puerta abierta
1957-03-08
La puerta abierta
Overview: Shortly after moving to Madrid, a dancer is killed. His condition as a womanizer, in addition to his arrogance, makes us suspect that it is a crime of passion. As the investigation progresses, the doubts and jealousy of one of his neighbors threatens to ruin his family life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-03-08
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Rospiggar
1942-09-03
Rospiggar
Overview: A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-09-03
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Ride Tonight!
1942-11-24
Ride Tonight!
Overview: Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg's novel.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-11-24
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Tormento d'amore
1956-12-24
Tormento d'amore
Overview: "Torment of love" - Sara and Pietro meet in Barcelona and immediately a strong friendship grows between them, that soon turns into love. Sara does not dare to tell Pietro about a recent affair with a man called Roberto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-24
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Puccini
1953-04-29
Puccini
Overview: Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-04-29
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