Alice Babs
Also Known As: Alice Sjöblom, Hildur Alice Nilson
Biography: Hildur Alice Nilson (26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014), known by her stage name Alice Babs, was a Swedish singer. She worked in a wide number of genres – Swedish folklore, Elizabethan songs and opera. While she was best known internationally as a jazz singer, Babs also competed as Sweden's first annual competition entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958. In 1972 she was named Sweden's Royal Court Singer, the first non-opera singer as such.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kalmar, Kalmar län, Sweden
Birthday: January 26, 1924
Deathday: February 11, 2014
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Swing it Alice!
Overview: Documentary on the Swedish jazz singer Alice Babs where interviews with her are interspersed with clips of her performances.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-01-22
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Minns ni?
Overview: A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-10-24
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Musik ombord
Overview: Ulla Winther has retired from her singing career to a marriage with two children. But her agent wants her to return and she finally agrees to take part in a charity concert
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-23
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Swing it, fröken
Overview: There is a new English teacher in school, Miss Lind. She moves in with the Nilssons, whose son Sigge prefers playing with his trumpet than to study German. Miss Lind convinces him how important his studies are. But Sanna, a girl in Sigge's class becomes jealous and angry when Sigge prefers his homework instead of her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-10-20
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Swinging at the Castle
Overview: Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-03-08
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I dur och skur
Overview: "In rain and shine" - Sid och Filibert are identical twins. Sid is a theater manager and composer and when his brother arrives to Stockholm for a position at the Museum of Natural History, Filibert is mistaken for Sid.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-05-22
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Our Gang
Overview: A gang of friends lose their club house and collect money for a new one by singing in public.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-02-02
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Resan till dej
Overview: The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-12-19
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Stjärnbilder
Overview: A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-09-10
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Magistrarna på sommarlov
Overview: Inga Danell's summer vacation is near. But unfortunately both Inga and her brother Acke have bad grades and are forced to study by the help of a tutor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-11-22
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'Swing It' Teacher
Overview: Old fashioned teachers are taught swing dancing by a student.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-12-21
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Kungen av Dalarna
Overview: Malm is the editor at a Stockholm newspaper who gets the assignment to cover the big ski race Vasaloppet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-05-20
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Thunder and Lightning
Overview: The aristocratic count Hägerskiöld is very proud of his swine Helen of Troy who wins a prize every year as the best swine in the area. This year his son Claes-Ferdinand needs money to get married with Pyret, a chorus-girl. His father won't give him any so he steals the swine, expecting that his father will give a reward to anyone who can find her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-03-21
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Swedish Girl
Overview: Britta is the foster daughter of Professor Rydberg. The last 13 years she has lived with him and his son Sven. She and Sven are closely not only at the siblings' way. They are engaged.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-09-28
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H.C. Andersens sagor
Overview: It's evening and mother Alice read bedtime stories for her three children.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-12-13
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När molnen skingras
Overview: The story of the popular Swedish singer Ulla Billquist. The WW2's most famous voice in Sweden. The fate of a female that has never been told before.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2016-02-08
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Drömsemester
Overview: The Danish school teacher Mogens Jensen is on his holiday through Sweden in a rickety T-Ford.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-10-03
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Song of Stockholm
Overview: Knatten and Janne, just released from the prison of Långholmen, meet a romantic Stockholm in the 40s. Knatten tries to earn money while Janne is looking for the music.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-02-22
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Young Eagles
Overview: The spoiled Marianne has switched cocktail parties to flight lessons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-10-09
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Det glada kalaset
Overview: Bojan runs a guest house, with economical problems. She decides, therefore, to arrange a big party. If she will go bankrupt, it might as well happen to cheerful music.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-03
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A Singing Girl
Overview: A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-03-09
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Det hopfällbara slottet
Overview: "The Folding Castle" - a musical drama - Built in blue, lasts longer than you think, can withstand being watch. The shadow of the cloud is slowly eroding, the edges of the giant mountain. The dust of the fairy tale grinds the raw diamonds of life. A story by Gunnel Linde, to music by Bengt Hallberg, choreographer by Tyyne Talvo Cramér, starring Alice Babs.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-04-13
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Pfingstbummel - Pfingstrummel
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-05-18
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Symphonie in Gold
Overview: Revue film on ice.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-03-02
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Alice Babs - Swing It!
Overview: This documentary film features plenty of archival material, also showing Alice Babs from her private side: as a vivacious lady who has held on to her happy and "up-beat" nature into old age.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Skådetennis
Overview: Tennis competitions between Swedish actors at Saltsjöbaden.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-01-22
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Terras fönster 4
Overview: The newsboy Sigge first sells "Terras fönster" on trains. Sweden's smallest car on Stockholm's streets run by Ville Wallén. Bird Sports: Who has made the silent film father?. Night -working streets, taxi drivers and newspaper messages. Garvis Carlsson gives football lessons. Fishing at Lofoten. The father made by Ingmar Bergman for prison. Newspaper flights. Gotland artist David Ahlqvist. Female War Packers at the Ring Wall in Visby. Michel Auclair at Snäckgärdsbaden. Hobby photography city doctor in Visby Nils Bohlin. Alice Babs and her children in a singing cavalcade written by Roland Eiworth.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-18
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