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Smiles of a Summer Night (Desperate Housewives)
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“Smiles of a Summer Night” is the 72nd episode of the ABC dramedy series Desperate Housewives. It was written by Bob Daily and Matt Berry and directed by David Grossman and it is the second episode of the show’s fourth season and aired on October 7,2007. Julie asks Susan if she can go to a party, however, Mike tells Susan that he would rather Susan forbade her daughter to go due to the fact he has seen some crazy parties in the house where Julie is going. Even though Susan had already given Julie permission to go to the party, she sides with Mike and Julie is banned. However, Susan decides to go behind Mike’s back and tells Julie she just wanted Mike to feel as if he were part of the decision-making process, and she allows Julie to attend the party. Later that night Mike tells Susan he drove past the house earlier on and saw things like running around topless, people staggering around drunk. Susan says she needs to run to the store, and she runs to the party to pick up Julie, Mike later finds out about Susan’s lie and tells Susan that he respects her decisions on how to raise Julie how she wants, as Julie is her child. Dylan is walking by Mrs. McCluskeys, and she strikes up a conversation with Dylan about how she used to see her playing on her tricycle around the neighborhood with her father close behind. Later, she waits until Katherine leaves then grabs her family photo album and she comes across a baby picture of herself and the picture of her father cropped off from the family portrait, but hides it quickly when her mom comes into the room. Lynette Scavo asks during her lunch if anyone would like to attend chemotherapy with her, Bree, Susan and even Katherine all offer to do it, however Gabrielle pretends to not hear the question and Lynette confronts her about it. Gabrielle gives in and decides to go with Lynette, however, when she is there to entertain Lynette, she seems uncomfortable and awkward, constantly finds reasons to leave the room and disappear for hours. She said she smiled all night – even after he had died – and she fights back tears when she tells Lynette she is so scared of losing her that she cannot pretend to smile. Lynette is choked up and promises her she will not die, Katherine Mayfair suggests to have a lunch party for Lynette one day and she and Bree both insist to bring dessert for the party, which at first Katherine reluctantly agreed to bring salad. During the lunch, everyone tries the pie Bree has brought, Susan and Gabrielle tell her that it is the best she has ever made. However, when Bree tries it, she realizes that it is not hers, Katherine comes clean and announces that she swapped hers with Bree’s so that everyone could try it. Bree, furious about Katherines deceit and largely irate about Katherine upstaging her pie, when that doesn’t work she gives Katherine her meat pie recipe and then asks nicely for Katherines lemon meringue pie recipe. Katherine refuses, but Bree keeps pushing it and they get into a verbal tussle. In her determination, Bree breaks into the Mayfair house to steal it, instead of giving up, Bree gets a pair of bolt cutters from Mike, but is trapped when Katherine and her family come home
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Ingmar Bergman
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Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer, and producer who worked in film, television, theatre and radio. He directed over sixty films and documentaries for cinematic release and for television and he also directed over 170 plays. From 1953 he forged a creative partnership with his full-time cinematographer Sven Nykvist. Among his company of actors were Harriet and Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Björnstrand, Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, most of his films were set in Sweden, and numerous films from Through a Glass Darkly onward were filmed on the island of Fårö. His work often dealt with death, illness, faith, betrayal, bleakness and insanity. Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala, Sweden, the son of Erik Bergman, a Lutheran minister and later chaplain to the King of Sweden, and Karin and he grew up with his older brother Dag and sister Margareta surrounded by religious imagery and discussion. His father was a parish minister with strict ideas of parenting. Ingmar was locked up in dark closets for infractions, such as wetting the bed, there was everything that ones imagination could desire—angels, saints, dragons, prophets, devils, humans. Although raised in a devout Lutheran household, Bergman later stated that he lost his faith at age eight and only came to terms with this fact while making Winter Light in 1962. His interest in theatre and film began early, At the age of nine, he traded a set of tin soldiers for a magic lantern, a possession that altered the course of his life. Within a year, he had created, by playing with this toy and he fashioned his own scenery, marionettes, and lighting effects and gave puppet productions of Strindberg plays in which he spoke all the parts. Bergman attended Palmgrens School as a teenager and his school years were unhappy, and he remembered them unfavorably in later years. Bergman wrote in a response that he had disliked the emphasis on homework. In 1934, aged 16, he was sent to Germany to spend the vacation with family friends. He attended a Nazi rally in Weimar at which he saw Adolf Hitler, Bergman commented that Hitler was unbelievably charismatic. The Nazism I had seen seemed fun and youthful, Bergman did two five-month stretches of mandatory military service. In 1937 he entered Stockholm University College to study art and literature and he spent most of his time involved in student theatre and became a genuine movie addict. At the same time, a romantic involvement led to a break with his father lasted for years
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Ulla Jacobsson
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Ulla Jacobsson was a Swedish actress who is perhaps best known for playing the only female speaking role in the film Zulu. Jacobsson was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1929, originally a stage actress, she started appearing in English language films in the early 1960s and tended to play serious and anxious looking characters. She first become known internationally for her scenes in One Summer of Happiness. Other notable roles include Ingmar Bergmans Smiles of a Summer Night, Zulu, The Heroes of Telemark, a role in the American film Love Is a Ball was an attempt to make her a sex symbol. She won the German Film Award for Supporting Actress in Alle Jahre wieder and her last husband was Austrian ethnologist Hans Winfried Rohsmann. Jacobssons film career tailed off in the 1970s, and she died in Vienna, Austria, kolczyk Fox and His Friends - Eugens mother Ulla Jacobsson at the Internet Movie Database Ulla Jacobsson at AllMovie
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Eva Dahlbeck
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Eva Elisabet Dahlbeck was a Swedish actress and author. Eva Dahlbeck was born in Saltsjö-Duvnäs near Stockholm and she attended the prestigious acting school of the Royal Dramatic Theatre from 1941 to 1944, and acted on the Theatres stage from 1944 to 1964. She made her debut in the role of Botilla in Rid i natt. in 1942. In the mid-1950s Dahlbeck was one of Swedens most popular and successful actresses and she became internationally known for her strong female leads in a number of Ingmar Bergmans films, in particular his comedies Secrets of Women, A Lesson in Love and Smiles of a Summer Night. In 1965 she won the award for Best Actress at the 2nd Guldbagge Awards for her role in the film The Cats, in the 1960s Dahlbeck moved away from acting as she started to write. She retired from the stage in 1964 and made her appearance on screen in the Danish film Tintomara. She published several novels and poems in her native Sweden, Dahlbeck married Sven Lampell, an air force officer, in 1944. She lived out the last years of her life in Hässelby Villastad, Stockholm,1961 - Eugene ONeill Award for her stage work. Svenskfilmdatabas. se Eva Dahlbeck at the Internet Movie Database
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Harriet Andersson
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Harriet Andersson is a Swedish actress, best known outside Sweden for being part of director Ingmar Bergmans stock company. She often played impulsive working class characters and quickly established a reputation on screen for her youthful, unpretentious and she disdains the use of makeup. Harriet Andersson began her career as a 15-year-old student at Calle Flygare stage school. She joined director Ingmar Bergman for several productions at Malmö stadsteater 1953-56. In a 2008 interview with Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, Andersson debunks a rumor that she was discovered by Bergman while working as an elevator operator, ha, thats a new one for me. I did operate an elevator, but that was when I was 14 1/2, I was discovered in 1949 in theater school. Before Monika, I had many small parts, most of them were a little like Monika. I looked like a bad girl, but I wasnt a bad girl, really. I was a nice little girl, until I found out what life was. Bergman wrote the role in Summer with Monika, specifically for Andersson. The film featured Andersson in a scene, one of the first in postwar European cinema. It was inspired by Hedy Lamarrs once notorious skinny-dipping scene in Ecstasy, filmed in Sweden, the motion picture features a musical score by Les Baxter. Although the romantic relationship with Bergman was brief, they continued to work together, Andersson appeared in several of his best known films, including Smiles of a Summer Night, Through a Glass Darkly, Cries and Whispers, and Fanny and Alexander. In Through A Glass Darkly, in which Andersson appeared with Max von Sydow and Gunnar Björnstrand, the plot deals with the actions of four persons during a twenty-four-hour period in an old house a far distance out on the Swedish Archipelago. Some audiences were shocked by Anderssons vivid portrayal of the presence of God as represented in the world of a schizophrenic. Like several other Bergman regulars, she has also had a career in English-language films including performances in Sidney Lumets The Deadly Affair and her autobiography, a set of interviews with Jan Lumholdt, was published in 2006. In 1968, Andersson received the Bodil Award for Best Actress for her role in the Henning Carlsen Danish comedy People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart, recently, Andersson won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Stockholm International Film Festival 2010. Harriet Andersson was married to childhood friend Bertil Wejfeldt 1959-1963/4 and she has a daughter, Petra Wejfeldt, whom Andersson named after her character in Smiles of a Summer Night
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Jarl Kulle
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Jarl Lage Kulle was a Swedish film and stage actor and director, and father of Maria Kulle. Kulle was born in the village of Truedstorp, outside Ekeby, Sweden and was the son of the merchant Nils Kulle, in 1965 he won the award for Best Actor for his role in Swedish Wedding Night at the 2nd Guldbagge Awards. He won his second Guldbagge Best Actor award for Fanny and Alexander at the 19th Guldbagge Awards in 1983, in 1960, Kulle married Louise Hermelin, daughter of cavalry captain, Baron Carl-Magnus Hermelin and Ann-Marie Sourander. In 1976, Kulle married the actress Anne Nord, Kulle died in Gregersboda, Sweden in 1997 of bone cancer
