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Filmmaker · Denmark

Alice O'Fredericks

Died in 1968

Alice O'Fredericks was born in 1899 in Gothenburg, the daughter of a telegraphist; after her parents' divorce, she grew up in Copenhagen with her mother. She moved into directing in 1934 in tandem with Lau Lauritzen junior, with whom she signed twenty-seven films, then worked for the company ASA, for which she directed the great popular successes of the fifties, including eight family comedies from 1953 to 1961. Regarded as the most prolific woman director in the history of cinema, she died in 1968; a prize at the Copenhagen festival bears her name.

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