Bodil Miller née Møller (1928–2017) was a Danish

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and

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. She studied drama at Frederiksbergske Teatres Elevskole in Copenhagen but soon moved to

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and joined

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where she performed in three or four movies. After her marriage with the screenwriter Eugene Solov ended in divorce in 1954, she returned to Denmark and married Universal's local director Knud Eigil Jørgensen. She performed roles in a few Danish films without acclaim but then became a highly successful model, appearing in Danish magazines as well as in ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Early life and education

Born on 14 April 1928 in

Nørresundby Nørresundby () is a city in Aalborg Municipality, north of Limfjorden, in Vendsyssel, in Denmark. The urban area has a population of 24,436 (1 January 2025). It is located just north of Aalborg, which lies south of Limfjorden. Statistically it ...

in the north of

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, Bodil Møller was the daughter of the factory foreman Alfred Rasmus Jespersen Møller and his wife Edith Marie née Jensen. Following her father's early death, when she was seven, together with her mother and siblings she moved to Copenhagen. After beginning a housekeeping course at

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, she decided she wanted to work in farming an attended Haslev Landbrugsskole. She then turned to drama, training under

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and as a student at Frederiksbergske Teatres Elevskole.

Career

She managed to perform one role in Denmark as the daughter in ''

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'' before she moved to Hollywood in 1951. After further training at Universal Studios, she had roles in a few films including ''

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'', '' Scarlet Angel'' and '' Because of You'' but without any real success. While in Hollywood, she married the screenwriter Eugene Solow but the marriage was dissolved in 1954 and she returned to Denmark. In October 1955, she married Knud Eigil Jørgensen, the Universal Studios director in Denmark, with whom she had a son. She took a number of roles in Danish films, the most significant being in the Danish version of science fiction movie ''

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''. Miller later became a highly successful model, appearing in Denmark's leading magazines as well as in ''Vogue'' and ''Harper's Bazar''. Bodil Miller died in

Hellerup Hellerup () is a very affluent district of Gentofte Municipality in the suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. The most urban part of the district is centred on Strandvejen and is bordered by Østerbro to the south and the Øresund to the east. It compr ...

on 16 September 2017.

References

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