Karin Molander (20 May 1889 â€" 3 September 1978) was a Swedish stage
and film actress whose career spanned over five decades.Born Katarina
Margareta Elisabet Edwertz in Stockholm, Sweden, she began taking
classes from theater actress Julia HÃ¥kansson at a young age. She
debuted on stage at the Vasa Theatre in 1907 and was engaged at the
Intiman Theatre from 1911 to 1920, the Lorensberg Theatre from 1920 to
1922 and at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in two phases: 1922 to 1925 and
again from 1931 to 1936. Molander made her film debut in 1913 in
director Victor Sjöström's Halvblod. Working with filmmaker Mauritz
Stiller, Molander became a very popular leading lady in silent films,
a symbol of the young, modern and emancipated women of the 1910s. She
is possibly best recalled in director Mauritz Stiller's 1920 social
satire Erotikon, one of many films by Stiller she appeared in.Karin
Molander was married twice. Her first marriage was to Swedish film
director Gustaf Molander from 1909 to 1919, which produced a son -
actor and producer Harald Molander - but ended in divorce. She married
actor Lars Hanson in 1920 and the couple remained married until
Hanson's death in 1965.Karin Molander died in Täby, at Höstsol,
which was a foundation for retired actors which had been founded by
the Teaterförbundet (Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film) in
1978, aged 89. She was buried at the Norra Begravningsplatsen cemetery
in Solna.
and film actress whose career spanned over five decades.Born Katarina
Margareta Elisabet Edwertz in Stockholm, Sweden, she began taking
classes from theater actress Julia HÃ¥kansson at a young age. She
debuted on stage at the Vasa Theatre in 1907 and was engaged at the
Intiman Theatre from 1911 to 1920, the Lorensberg Theatre from 1920 to
1922 and at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in two phases: 1922 to 1925 and
again from 1931 to 1936. Molander made her film debut in 1913 in
director Victor Sjöström's Halvblod. Working with filmmaker Mauritz
Stiller, Molander became a very popular leading lady in silent films,
a symbol of the young, modern and emancipated women of the 1910s. She
is possibly best recalled in director Mauritz Stiller's 1920 social
satire Erotikon, one of many films by Stiller she appeared in.Karin
Molander was married twice. Her first marriage was to Swedish film
director Gustaf Molander from 1909 to 1919, which produced a son -
actor and producer Harald Molander - but ended in divorce. She married
actor Lars Hanson in 1920 and the couple remained married until
Hanson's death in 1965.Karin Molander died in Täby, at Höstsol,
which was a foundation for retired actors which had been founded by
the Teaterförbundet (Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film) in
1978, aged 89. She was buried at the Norra Begravningsplatsen cemetery
in Solna.
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