Else Frölich (August 31, 1880 – September 15, 1960), was a Norwegian-Danish star of silent film.

Biography

She was born Eli Marie Thaulow to a Danish mother, Ingeborg Charlotte Gad (1852–1908), and a Norwegian father, the impressionist painter

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. Her paternal grandfather was the wealthy Norwegian pharmacist

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(1815–1881). Her brother was the Norwegian author

(1887–1971), who wrote under the pseudonym John Hell. She often acted for the Danish

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company, starring alongside Danish actor

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Personal life

On June 9, 1903, she married Danish opera singer Louis de la Cruz Frölich (1872 -1952), an internationally known interpreter of the works of

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. They had one daughter, Ingeborg, in 1904, and divorced after only being married for a year. In 1916 she married Danish film director and screenwriter A. W. Sandberg (1887–1938), and they, too, divorced.

References

1880 births 1960 deaths Danish film actors Norwegian film actors 20th-century Danish actors 20th-century Norwegian actors Danish silent film actresses {{Denmark-actor-stub