Marguerite Viby (25 June 1909 â€" 8 April 2001) was a Danish actress
of stage, film and television. Considered one of the great comedy
actresses of Danish cinema, Viby received honorary Bodil and Robert
Awards in 2000 for lifetime achievement. She appeared in more than 50
films and television shows during a career that spanned from the
silent film era in 1929 until a television series in 1983.Marguerite
Viby was born Ida Marguerite Steenberg Jensen Viby in Copenhagen,
Denmark on 25 June 1909, the daughter of a policeman and a secretary.
Her father died when she was 16 and her mother a year later. Viby left
school at 14, and worked part-time to pay for dance lessons. She was
schooled as a dancer at Emilie Walbom's Ballet School as'a well as
through private instruction from the Danish Royal Dancer John
Andersen. In 1923, when she was 14 years old, Viby debuted in a summer
revue at Tivoli Gardens. She continued to perform in revues and stage
musicals throughout her life.In 1929, Viby began her film career in
the silent film Højt på en kvist (High on in the Attic). She
followed with four Fy og Bi comedies film in which her casting was
mostly based on her physical attraction, however in He, She and
Hamlet, the first Danish combined sound film, she danced and sang a
romantic duet with leading man Hans W. Petersen.
of stage, film and television. Considered one of the great comedy
actresses of Danish cinema, Viby received honorary Bodil and Robert
Awards in 2000 for lifetime achievement. She appeared in more than 50
films and television shows during a career that spanned from the
silent film era in 1929 until a television series in 1983.Marguerite
Viby was born Ida Marguerite Steenberg Jensen Viby in Copenhagen,
Denmark on 25 June 1909, the daughter of a policeman and a secretary.
Her father died when she was 16 and her mother a year later. Viby left
school at 14, and worked part-time to pay for dance lessons. She was
schooled as a dancer at Emilie Walbom's Ballet School as'a well as
through private instruction from the Danish Royal Dancer John
Andersen. In 1923, when she was 14 years old, Viby debuted in a summer
revue at Tivoli Gardens. She continued to perform in revues and stage
musicals throughout her life.In 1929, Viby began her film career in
the silent film Højt på en kvist (High on in the Attic). She
followed with four Fy og Bi comedies film in which her casting was
mostly based on her physical attraction, however in He, She and
Hamlet, the first Danish combined sound film, she danced and sang a
romantic duet with leading man Hans W. Petersen.
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