Else Frölich

Else Frölich (August 31, 1880 – September 15, 1960), was a Norwegian-Danish star of silent film.^[1]

Else Frölich
Frölich in 1909
Born	(1880-08-31)August 31, 1880 Paris, France
Died	September 15, 1960(1960-09-15) (aged 80) Copenhagen, Denmark

Biography

She was born Eli Marie Thaulow to a Danish mother, Ingeborg Charlotte Gad (1852–1908), and a Norwegian father, the impressionist painter Frits Thaulow.^[2] Her paternal grandfather was the wealthy Norwegian pharmacist Harald Thaulow (1815–1881). Her brother was the Norwegian author Harald Thaulow (1887–1971), who wrote under the pseudonym John Hell.

She often acted for the Danish Nordisk Film company, starring alongside Danish actor Valdemar Psilander.^[3]

The actor's portrait from the film star portrait house Photochemie Berlin (fl. 1914–1919)

Personal life

On June 9, 1903, she married Danish opera singer Louis de la Cruz Frölich (1872 -1952), an internationally known interpreter of the works of Wagner.^[4][5] They had one daughter, Ingeborg, in 1904, and divorced after only being married for a year. In 1916 she married Danish film director and screenwriter A. W. Sandberg (1887–1938), and they, too, divorced.