Grete Frische

Grete Frische was a Danish actress, screenwriter and director. The daughter of a playwright, Frische is best known for her screenplays, especially the war drama Stt str den danske smand which received the 1949 Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. During a short career of less thanyears, Frische wroteproduced screenplays including five of the popular Far til Fire family comedies and two adaptations of Morten Korch novels.

Frische was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the daughter of the actor and playwright Axel Frische and Christine Jrgine Christensen. In accordance with her fathers wishes, Frische began her career by studying English and History at Bedford, England rather than attending theater school. While studying in England, she met a young Burmese student, whom she married, and moved to Mandalay and Rangoon. Before the outbreak of World War II, she divorced her husband, became ill, and returned home to Denmark.

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