Else Frölich

{{Short description|Norwegian-Danish star of silent film (1880–1960)}}

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| name = Else Frölich

| image = 21. Else Frølich i "Dollarprinsessen" (15525802835).jpg

| caption = Frölich in 1909

| birth_date = {{birth date|1880|8|31}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|1960|9|15|1880|8|31}}

| death_place = Copenhagen, Denmark

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Else Frölich (August 31, 1880 – September 15, 1960), was a Norwegian-Danish star of silent film.{{Cite book |last=Fullerton |first=John |title=Celebrating 1895: The Centenary of Cinema |publisher=National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television (Great Britain) |year=1998 |isbn=9781864620153 |pages=xvi}}

Biography

She was born Eli Marie Thaulow to a Danish mother, Ingeborg Charlotte Gad (1852–1908), and a Norwegian father, the impressionist painter Frits Thaulow.{{Cite web |title=Norway Baptisms, 1634-1927 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWFB-LN5 |website=Familysearch.org}} Her paternal grandfather was the wealthy Norwegian pharmacist Harald Thaulow (1815–1881). Her brother was the Norwegian author Harald Thaulow (1887–1971), who wrote under the pseudonym John Hell.

She often acted for the Danish Nordisk Film company, starring alongside Danish actor Valdemar Psilander.{{Cite book |last=Niver |first=Kemp R. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Motion_Pictures_from_the_Library_of_Cong/Y2HhEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Else+Fr%C3%B6lich+valdemar&pg=PT715&printsec=frontcover |title=Motion Pictures from the Library of Congress Paper Print Collection, 1894-1912 |date= |publisher=University of California Press |year=2023 |isbn=978-0-520-33410-6 |location=Berkley, California |language=en}}

File:Else Frölich from a private collection.png

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 Wagner."Norway Church Books, 1815-1930," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:683H-58VZ), Entry for Louis de La Cruz Frølieh and Eli Marie Thaulow, 9 June 1903.{{Cite journal |last=Hiort |first=Ivar |date=1 October 1910 |title=Yore Landsmænd i Udlandet: Louis Frölich |url=https://archive.org/details/masken-1-aarg-1910-11/page/168/mode/2up?q=%22louis+fr%C3%B6lich%22+%22else+fr%C3%B6lich%22&view=theater |journal=Masken |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=169 |via=Internet Archive}} 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

Category:1880 births

Category:1960 deaths

Category:Danish film actors

Category:Norwegian film actors

Category:20th-century Danish actors

Category:20th-century Norwegian actors

Category:Danish silent film actresses