Alice Babs
Acting
Biography
Hildur Alice Nilson (26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014), known by her stage name Alice Babs, was a Swedish singer. She worked in a wide number of genres – Swedish folklore, Elizabethan songs and opera. While she was best known internationally as a jazz singer, Babs also competed as Sweden's first annual competition entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958. In 1972 she was named Sweden's Royal Court Singer, the first non-opera singer as such.
Known For
Så ska det låta is a Swedish game show, based on the Irish The Lyrics Board. The show was introduced in 1997 and led by Peter Harryson until Peter Settman took over in 2006. Så ska det låta can be watched online at svt play for approximately one month after airing.
Så ska det låta
It's evening and mother Alice read bedtime stories for her three children.
H.C. Andersens sagor
There is a new English teacher in school, Miss Lind. She moves in with the Nilssons, whose son Sigge prefers playing with his trumpet than to study German. Miss Lind convinces him how important his studies are. But Sanna, a girl in Sigge's class becomes jealous and angry when Sigge prefers his homework instead of her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Swing it, fröken
Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.
Swinging at the Castle
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
Stjärnbilder
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Minns ni?
"In rain and shine" - Sid och Filibert are identical twins. Sid is a theater manager and composer and when his brother arrives to Stockholm for a position at the Museum of Natural History, Filibert is mistaken for Sid.
I dur och skur
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Bitte recht freundlich
Old fashioned teachers are taught swing dancing by a student.
'Swing It' Teacher
The aristocratic count Hägerskiöld is very proud of his swine Helen of Troy who wins a prize every year as the best swine in the area. This year his son Claes-Ferdinand needs money to get married with Pyret, a chorus-girl. His father won't give him any so he steals the swine, expecting that his father will give a reward to anyone who can find her.
Thunder and Lightning
A gang of friends lose their club house and collect money for a new one by singing in public.
Our Gang
Bojan runs a guest house, with economical problems. She decides, therefore, to arrange a big party. If she will go bankrupt, it might as well happen to cheerful music.
Det glada kalaset
Britta is the foster daughter of Professor Rydberg. The last 13 years she has lived with him and his son Sven. She and Sven are closely not only at the siblings' way. They are engaged.
Swedish Girl
Inga Danell's summer vacation is near. But unfortunately both Inga and her brother Acke have bad grades and are forced to study by the help of a tutor.
Magistrarna på sommarlov
Tennis competitions between Swedish actors at Saltsjöbaden.
Skådetennis
Malm is the editor at a Stockholm newspaper who gets the assignment to cover the big ski race Vasaloppet.
Kungen av Dalarna
The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough.
Resan till dej
Ulla Winther has retired from her singing career to a marriage with two children. But her agent wants her to return and she finally agrees to take part in a charity concert
Musik ombord
"The Folding Castle" - a musical drama - Built in blue, lasts longer than you think, can withstand being watch. The shadow of the cloud is slowly eroding, the edges of the giant mountain. The dust of the fairy tale grinds the raw diamonds of life. A story by Gunnel Linde, to music by Bengt Hallberg, choreographer by Tyyne Talvo Cramér, starring Alice Babs.
Det hopfällbara slottet
The Danish school teacher Mogens Jensen is on his holiday through Sweden in a rickety T-Ford.