Mim Persson
Swedish actress
Mim Persson (born Ida Elisabet Hanna Hilda Sofia Ekelund; 8 November 1902 – 16 November 1982) was a Swedish film actress. She was married to the actor Edvard Persson and co-starred in several films with him, including When the Mills are Running (1956), which was the last film that Edvard Persson appeared in, before his death in 1957.
Selected filmography
Black Roses (1932)
South of the Highway (1936)
Kalle's Inn (1939)
A Sailor on Horseback (1940)
Life in the Country (1943)
Turn of the Century (1944)
The Happy Tailor (1945)
Jens Mansson in America (1947)
Count Svensson (1951)
The Girl from Backafall (1953)
Blue Sky (1955)
When the Mills are Running (1956)
References
Bibliography
Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
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