Meg Westergren
Acting
Biography
Westergren is the daughter of famous actors Håkan Westergren and Inga Tidblad. They moved to Nockeby, Stockholm, in 1931 and got married the same year. Westergren was born the following year on 16 May 1932. As a child, Westergren was a big admirer of her mother who was one of the biggest stars in Swedish theater. Westergren was raised with a nanny and has later said she wishes her busy parents would have spent more time with her while growing up. Westergren was originally not planning on becoming an actress. Instead she decided to become a fashion designer and traveled to Paris to study. In between lessons at the designer institute, she walked the runway as a model at the fashion house Carven.
Known For
Five celebrities spend five days together on a castle somewhere in Sweden. Each episode (or day) centres around one of them. This person decides what to to and eat. The others get the chance to ask questions about this persons life and career.
Stjärnorna på slottet
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.
Julkalendern
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Gäster med gester
Sune, an 11 year old boy struggles with girl troubles and school while he and his goofy family prepares for Christmas with failed attempts at all of the usual December traditions.
Sunes jul
Drama about the life of the writer Carl Jonas Love Almqvist.
Nya himlar och en ny jord
8-year-old Selma Traskvist and her family are in danger of being evicted from their home, when Selma meets scientist Efraim von Trippelhatt who is working to build an airship and prove Santa's existence.
Selmas saga
A fairy tale and satire about a wealthy industrialist, whose son has been subdued and oppressed and totally uninterested in his father's business.
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
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Himmel och pannkaka
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Pappas pojkar
Fridolf's daughter becomes pregnant and Fridolf and Selma become strongly involved in this.
Lille Fridolf blir morfar
When teenager Dante's parents go on vacation, they give him strict instructions not to "make anything up" while they're away. But when Dante and his friend Tvärsan find a diamond ring in the snow, they're drawn into an exciting detective adventure.
Dante: Beware of the Shark!
The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her he takes a job there but Maj is in love with Osvald Berg, the big star of the opera. To wake Osvald's interest for her she asks Marcus if he could play deeply in love with her. Plot summary by nL.
Miss April
Inga Tidblad started acting in 1921 and became one of Sweden's greatest and most successful actresses of all time. Daughter Meg Westergren, colleagues Bibi Andersson, Helena Bergström, Thommy Berggren and Sven Wollter are a few who talk and remember her as a person and as an actor.
Inga Tidblad - Lysande stjärna av sin tid
A professor's convictions about modern sexual education and free love are challenged when his daughter decides she wants an abortion.
The Right to Love
To increase sales of the magazine Veckohatten, the management decides to invest heavily in the beauty contest Miss Sweden. A communist cell is planning to sabotage the competition, because it is sexist.
Miss and Mrs Sweden
The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold war is imminent. At F8 - Air Fore Base, the yellow squadron stand ready with its J29 fighters.
The Yellow Squadron
The story of the charlatan Gustaf Raskenstam life and times during World War II, who for financial gain seduced a large number of women.
Raskenstam
The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.
Jazz Boy
Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.
Miss Chic
Alongside a tranquil road somewhere in Sweden live a number of people who are pretty much like people in general. When a highly improbable and catastrophic chain of events besets them, it leads to break up and change. A tragicomic story that feels both familiar and alien at the same time.