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A Swedish actress, born in Stockholm, Sweden, as Signe Eleonora Cecilia Larsson. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994. Signe Hasso married the German director Harry Hasso (1933-1941) and gave birth to a child before they separated in divorce. She married the actor William Langford and remained with him until he died in 1955. Hasso's most important works include The House on 92nd Street (1945), Heaven Can Wait (1943), A Scandal in Paris (1946), and The Seventh Cross (1944). Hasso's father and grandfather died when she was 4 years old, and she lived with her mother, grandmother, and two of her siblings in a one-room apartment. Her mother was trying to make her way to become an actress, but she was forced to cook pies and sell them to support the family. Hasso began standing on stage when she was 12 at the famous Royal Dramatic Theatre. She became one of the youngest students studying drama in the theater when she was 16. Her liberal education led her to appear in cinema for the first time in 1933 in the film Tystnadens hus (1933), and within 7 years, she moved between cinema and theater. In the late 1930s, when the harbingers of Nazi war loomed, Hasso left Sweden by rail across the Russian lands of Siberia to China, and from there to Singapore, where she sailed to San Francisco and from there by train to Los Angeles, on a trip that took 6 months. She signed a contract with RKO Pictures. She did not perform anything with RKO, so she headed to New York, where she performed 5 shows in Broadway theaters before signing a contract with MGM and making her first film in Hollywood, Heaven Can Wait (1943). She began her television career in 1951 and stopped acting in Hollywood following the death of her only son in a car accident. During that period, she presented some European films, and she returned to Hollywood in the mid-sixties with the movie Picture Mommy Dead (1966) and others while continuing to work in American television and theatrical work in London and New York. In her late days, she wrote and published lyrical poems and translated Swedish folk songs into English. Her first book was about her childhood period in Stockholm between the wars. She died in Los Angeles, California, USA, on June 7, 2002, as a result of pneumonia.
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