Description:
Young Signe Larsson was only 12 when she started to work as a child extra at The Royal Dramatic Theater and was the youngest ever enrolled for acting studies there at 16. She quickly got leading roles in movies and always received very good reviews. In 1940 she went to Hollywood and signed a contract with RKO. Despite her talent, it didn't lead to any work and she ventured off to New York and the theater. She signed a contract with MGM and made a dozen of movies, including George Cukor's A Double Life (1947), possibly her best. However, she longed to go back to the theater and has worked in London and New York as well as touring around the US.
Birthday
August 15, 1915
Born In
Stockholm, Sweden
Alternative names
Signe Larsson
Spouse/Ex-
Harry Hasso November 12, 1933 - 1941 (divorced)
Children
Henry Hasso
Trivia
Signe Hasso related her Hollywood bound journey to the USA was very difficult with the impending Nazi war actions in the early 1940's. Signe Hasso departed Sweden traveling by Siberian Railroad across Russia, into China, sailing from Singapore to San Francisco, then traveling by train to Los Angeles, where she met with RKO studio chiefs discussing film roles. Signe reported the entire trip took six months in reaching the United States because of travel restrictions, passport problems, and the unstable military undercurrent encountered because threats of the Nazi regime affected all of Asia.
Trademarks
Striking green eyes and a mass of reddish brown hair
