Lilly Jacobson
actress
- Born:
- 1893-06-08, Göteborg, Sweden
- Died:
- 1979-11-11
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
A twelve-year-old Lilly Jacobsson slipped through the doors of Svenske Biografteatern in 1911 and spent the next three summers lighting up Scandinavian screens with a freshness no camera could resist. A Copenhagen beauty pageant crown in 1916 carried her straight to Nordisk Film, where directors framed her face like a silent poem through one melodrama after another. Marriage bells in 1919 lured her away from the arc lamps—yet the footlights still flickered: Asta Nielsen, her old set-partner, coaxed her back for a single, spell-binding cameo as a courtier in the German “Hamlet,” proving that even retirement could be persuaded to take one last bow.
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