Märta Torén

Märta Torén

Born: May 21, 1926
Died: February 19, 1957
in Stockholm, Sweden
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Märta Torén (21 May 1926 – 19 February 1957) was a Swedish stage and film actress of the 1940s and 1950s.

Torén began her career on the stage and from 1947 she appeared in films. She appeared on the cover of the June 13 issue of Life Magazine in 1949.

One of her most important roles was opposite Humphrey Bogart in Sirocco (1951).

Torén died at the age of 31 from a brain hemorrhage.

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La puerta abierta
Title: La puerta abierta
Character: Condesa Isabel de Caroli
Released: March 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Shortly after moving to Madrid, a dancer is killed. His condition as a womanizer, in addition to his arrogance, makes us suspect that it is a crime of passion. As the investigation progresses, the doubts and jealousy of one of his neighbors threatens to ruin his family life.
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Tormento d'amore
Title: Tormento d'amore
Character: Sara Garcia
Released: December 24, 1956
Type: Movie
"Torment of love" - Sara and Pietro meet in Barcelona and immediately a strong friendship grows between them, that soon turns into love. Sara does not dare to tell Pietro about a recent affair with a man called Roberto.
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The Golden Vein
Title: The Golden Vein
Character: Maria
Released: September 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Jealous of his widowed mother's new lover, a boy does everything to separate them. Then, after he realizes their profound feelings for each other, he tries to reunite them.
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The Shadow
Title: The Shadow
Character: Alberta
Released: December 26, 1954
Type: Movie
A painter's wife becomes ill. A friend comes to comfort him,but he falls in love with her.
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House of Ricordi
Title: House of Ricordi
Character: Isabella Colbran
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
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Maddalena
Title: Maddalena
Character: Maddalena
Released: August 7, 1954
Type: Movie
The story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local priest Don Vincenzo faces a crisis when the girl selected to play the Virgin Mary shows up pregnant.
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Puccini
Title: Puccini
Character: Elvira Puccini
Released: April 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir.
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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
Title: The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
Character: Michele Rozier
Released: December 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A meek teller thinks he's killed his boss. He flees with a box of cash hoping for a new life with his younger mistress.
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Assignment: Paris
Title: Assignment: Paris
Character: Jeanne Moray
Released: September 4, 1952
Type: Movie
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
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Sirocco
Title: Sirocco
Character: Violette
Released: June 13, 1951
Type: Movie
A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
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Mystery Submarine
Title: Mystery Submarine
Character: Madeline Brenner (as Marta Toren)
Released: December 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Posing as an ex-German medical officer, a U. S. Navy Intelligence Officer sets out to rescue a kidnapped scientist, and sink a Nazi submarine, hiding off the coast of South America.
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Deported
Title: Deported
Character: Countess Christine di Lorenzi (as Marta Toren)
Released: November 1, 1950
Type: Movie
The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities.
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Spy Hunt
Title: Spy Hunt
Character: Catherine Ullven
Released: June 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a microfilm in the collar of one of the animals. But when the train is derailed in the Swiss Alps and the panthers escape, she is forced to involve him in her mission, which now includes enemy agents hunting the microfilm, the animals, Catherine and Roger. Corrected from an original submission by Guy Bellinger.
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One Way Street
Title: One Way Street
Character: Laura
Released: April 1, 1950
Type: Movie
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
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Sword in the Desert
Title: Sword in the Desert
Character: Sabra
Released: August 24, 1949
Type: Movie
First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel.
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Illegal Entry
Title: Illegal Entry
Character: Anna Duvak O'Neill
Released: June 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry. Howard Duff, who later worked with DeCordova on the TV series Mr. Adams and Eve, stars as Bert Powers, an undercover agent for the U.S. Department of Immigration. While attempting to bring a vicious gang of alien smugglers to justice, Powers falls in love with Anna Duvak (Marta Toren), a gang member who is Not What She Seems.
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Rogues' Regiment
Title: Rogues' Regiment
Character: Lili Maubert
Released: December 28, 1948
Type: Movie
A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.
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Casbah
Title: Casbah
Character: Gaby
Released: April 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.
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Eviga länkar
Title: Eviga länkar
Released: December 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Hilda Granström has a ladies tailoring shop. Her husband Richard is a cellist in the Opera Orchestra. Their three daughters are helping out in Hilda's shop. Richard's 80-year-old mother, who once was a dancer, also lives with the family.
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Johansson och Vestman
Title: Johansson och Vestman
Released: September 3, 1946
Type: Movie
Olga Hallman is waiting outside Långholmens prison. Out comes Adolf Johansson. Released after eight years for manslaughter. Olga takes him to a cafe.
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Changing Trains
Title: Changing Trains
Character: Young woman in the theater audience
Released: January 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Inga, an unemployed actress meets a sweetheart Kim, from days long gone at a train station. Over coffee they reminisce about their romance and how Inga left Kim for a moderately successful acting career and the attractive theater director Leo Waller.
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Ride Tonight!
Title: Ride Tonight!
Released: November 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg's novel.
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Rospiggar
Title: Rospiggar
Character: Young guest at Atlantic
Released: September 3, 1942
Type: Movie
A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.