Actress Eva Dahlbeck dies at 87
Debuted in 1942, collaborated with Bergman
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Dahlbeck made her screen debut in 1942. In 1949, she played the lead in Alf Sjoberg's hit "Only a Mother," which for a while cemented her position as an actress who typically played the mother and wife roles.
Her first collaboration with Ingmar Bergman was in 1952 in "Secrets of Women." After that, she played leads in Bergman's "A Lesson in Love" (1954), "Smiles of a Summer Night" (1955), "Brink of Life" (1958) and "All These Women" (1964). For the part in "Brink of Life," she won a shared actress award at the Cannes film festival.
Bergman called her "the battleship femininity" and loved to confront her with charming but weak males. These parts were often played by Gunnar Bjornstrand, and their exchanges of words in "Smiles of a Summer Night" and "Brink of Life" have become classics.
In the end of the 1960s, Dahlbeck played one of the leads in the popular TV series "The Markurells in Wadkoping." After that she left the film business and became a succesful novelist. Her husband, Sven Lampell, died in 2007.
