Acting

Märta Torén

Born May 21, 1926 · Stockholm, Sweden

Died February 19, 1957 · aged 30

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 …

Known For

Sirocco

Sirocco · 1951

MovieCrimeDrama

A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

Casbah

MovieMusicCrime

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.

Puccini

Puccini · 1953

MovieDramaMusic

The biographical story of Puccini 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 an attractive, beautiful singer whom he drops for a small town girl, and a servant girl who commits suicide over him.

House of Ricordi

House of Ricordi · 1954

House of Ricordi

MovieHistoryDrama

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.

Ride Tonight!

Ride Tonight! · 1942

MovieHistoryDrama

In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.

Assignment: Paris

Assignment: Paris · 1952

Assignment: Paris

MovieThrillerDrama

Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By · 1952

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

MovieCrimeDrama

A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company funds but he is caught in the act by his accountant who challenges his actions, leading to a reversal of roles.

One Way Street

One Way Street · 1950

MovieCrimeDrama

After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.

Filmography

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Sirocco

Sirocco · 1951

MovieCrimeDrama

A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

Violette

Casbah

MovieMusicCrime

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.

Gaby

Puccini

Puccini · 1953

MovieDramaMusic

The biographical story of Puccini 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 an attractive, beautiful singer whom he drops for a small town girl, and a servant girl who commits suicide over him.

Elvira Puccini

House of Ricordi

House of Ricordi · 1954

House of Ricordi

MovieHistoryDrama

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.

Isabella Colbran

Ride Tonight!

Ride Tonight! · 1942

MovieHistoryDrama

In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.

Woman from Brändbol

Assignment: Paris

Assignment: Paris · 1952

Assignment: Paris

MovieThrillerDrama

Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.

Jeanne Moray

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By · 1952

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

MovieCrimeDrama

A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company funds but he is caught in the act by his accountant who challenges his actions, leading to a reversal of roles.

Michele Rozier

One Way Street

One Way Street · 1950

MovieCrimeDrama

After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.

Laura Thorsen

The Golden Vein

The Golden Vein · 1955

The Golden Vein

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.

Maria

Illegal Entry

Illegal Entry · 1949

MovieActionCrime

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.

Anna Duvak O'Neill

The Shadow

The Shadow · 1954

MovieDramaRomance

A painter's wife becomes ill. A friend comes to comfort him,but he falls in love with her.

Alberta

Eviga länkar

Eviga länkar · 1946

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.

One of Signe's Daughters (uncredited)

Sword in the Desert

Sword in the Desert · 1949

Sword in the Desert

First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel.

Sabra

Rogues' Regiment

Rogues' Regiment · 1948

Rogues' Regiment

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.

Lili Maubert

Maddalena

Maddalena · 1954

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.

Maddalena

La puerta abierta

La puerta abierta · 1957

La puerta abierta

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.

Condesa Isabel de Caroli

Deported

Deported · 1950

MovieCrimeDrama

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.

Christine di Lorenzi

Spy Hunt

Spy Hunt · 1950

MovieActionCrime

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.

Catherine Ullven

Mystery Submarine

Mystery Submarine · 1950

Mystery Submarine

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.

Madeline Brenner

Changing Trains

Changing Trains · 1943

Changing Trains

MovieDramaRomance

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.

Young Lady in the Audience at the Soiree (uncredited)

Tormento d'amore

Tormento d'amore · 1956

Tormento d'amore

"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.

Sara García

Johansson och Vestman

Johansson och Vestman · 1946

Johansson och Vestman

Olga Hallman is waiting outside Långholmens prison. Out comes Adolf Johansson. Released after eight years for manslaughter. Olga takes him to a cafe.

Rospiggar

Rospiggar · 1942

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.

Young guest at Atlantic