Inger Stender (1912â€"1989) was a Danish actress of stage, film and
television whose sophisticated elegance and classic beauty earned her
the description of Denmark's version of Marlene Dietrich.Inger
Margueritha Stender, born 7 June 1912 in Copenhagen, Denmark, was the
daughter of a baker from Valby. She attended drama classes from 1929
to 1931 at the student schools for the Komediehuset (Comedy House) and
Det Ny Teater (The New Theater), then made her stage debut at Det Ny
Teater on 24 April 1931 in the role of Flora in C.E. Soya's Kendt
Navne. Beginning in the 1930s, Stender was an actress for several
stage companies throughout Denmark, including the Riddersalen, Odense
Theater, Apollo Theater, Aalborg Theater and Aarhus Theater. She was a
prolific and versatile stage actress, playing roles in Uncle Tom's
Cabin, Tartuffe, and Henry IV as well as cabarets and comedies. In one
season alone at the Odense Theater (1934â€"1935), Stender played 14
leading roles and received critical success as The Ship's Boy in Alle
Mand på Dæk (All Hands on Deck). Stender also became an operetta
star when she sang the title role in Den Skønne Helene (The Beautiful
Helena) and was Zorina in Zorina.Stender made her film debut in 1931
as the daughter Rosa in Hotel Paradis. The following year, at the age
of 20, Stender played her first leading role as the sweet heroine in
the Liva Weel farce Odds 777. Throughout the 1930s and the early
1940s, she continued to be cast as the charming young girl in such
films as Benjamin Christensen's Barnet and the Herman Bang story,
Sommerglæder. In the meantime, Stender married Mogens Flindt-Larsen
in 1935 and they had two sons together. She divorced him in 1940, and
thereafter maintained a lifelong romantic relationship with the Danish
actor Poul Reichhardt with whom she played opposite in the 1941 film
Moster fra Mols. It was in her next film that Stender finally caught
the type of role for which she would become knownâ€"the 1943
Marguerite Viby comedy Som du vil ha' mig -! (However You Would Have
Me-!), in which she played the sophisticated, and a little too
intimate society girl.
television whose sophisticated elegance and classic beauty earned her
the description of Denmark's version of Marlene Dietrich.Inger
Margueritha Stender, born 7 June 1912 in Copenhagen, Denmark, was the
daughter of a baker from Valby. She attended drama classes from 1929
to 1931 at the student schools for the Komediehuset (Comedy House) and
Det Ny Teater (The New Theater), then made her stage debut at Det Ny
Teater on 24 April 1931 in the role of Flora in C.E. Soya's Kendt
Navne. Beginning in the 1930s, Stender was an actress for several
stage companies throughout Denmark, including the Riddersalen, Odense
Theater, Apollo Theater, Aalborg Theater and Aarhus Theater. She was a
prolific and versatile stage actress, playing roles in Uncle Tom's
Cabin, Tartuffe, and Henry IV as well as cabarets and comedies. In one
season alone at the Odense Theater (1934â€"1935), Stender played 14
leading roles and received critical success as The Ship's Boy in Alle
Mand på Dæk (All Hands on Deck). Stender also became an operetta
star when she sang the title role in Den Skønne Helene (The Beautiful
Helena) and was Zorina in Zorina.Stender made her film debut in 1931
as the daughter Rosa in Hotel Paradis. The following year, at the age
of 20, Stender played her first leading role as the sweet heroine in
the Liva Weel farce Odds 777. Throughout the 1930s and the early
1940s, she continued to be cast as the charming young girl in such
films as Benjamin Christensen's Barnet and the Herman Bang story,
Sommerglæder. In the meantime, Stender married Mogens Flindt-Larsen
in 1935 and they had two sons together. She divorced him in 1940, and
thereafter maintained a lifelong romantic relationship with the Danish
actor Poul Reichhardt with whom she played opposite in the 1941 film
Moster fra Mols. It was in her next film that Stender finally caught
the type of role for which she would become knownâ€"the 1943
Marguerite Viby comedy Som du vil ha' mig -! (However You Would Have
Me-!), in which she played the sophisticated, and a little too
intimate society girl.
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