Teacher's First Born
1950 film by Schamyl Bauman
Teacher's First Born (Swedish: Frokens forsta barn) is a 1950 Swedish comedy film directed by Schamyl Bauman and starring Sickan Carlsson, Edvin Adolphson and Viveca Serlachius. It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bibi Lindström.
Synopsis
An author is planning a book about single mothers, but his publisher is not convinced he knows enough about the subject and places an advertisement for single mothers to assist. The former journalist Sonja Broberg is very short of money and needs the job but is childless, so she borrows a boy from a children's home to support the masquerade.
Cast
Sickan Carlsson as Sonja Broberg, journalist
Edvin Adolphson as Johannes Porshammar
Olof Winnerstrand as Albert Wahlstrand
Dagmar Ebbesen as Viktoria
Viveca Serlachius as Birgit Björk
Sven Lindberg as Willgot Mosch
Douglas Håge as Gustafsson
Nils Kihlberg as Göran Hallman
Gösta Cederlund as Adolf Mosch
Gull Natorp as Betty Mosch
Christer Borg as Lukas
Harriet Andersson as Hallman's bride
Frithiof Bjärne as Police
Astrid Bodin as Augusta
John Botvid as Mr. Gran
Carl-Axel Elfving as 'Nysis', photographer
Mona Geijer-Falkner as Sales woman
Axel Högel as Karlsson, groom
Stig Johanson as Bus driver
Magnus Kesster as Police
Wilma Malmlöf as Cleaning-woman
Sten Sture Modéen as Young man
Bellan Roos as Willgott's hostess
Alf Östlund as Postman
References
Bibliography
Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
Segrave, Kerry & Martin, Linda.
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