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VICTOR SEASTROM
N the 70s two of the best known actors of the Swedish stage were Victor and Elizabeth Harrman, brother and sister.
The sister, Elizabeth, married a lumber dealer named Sjastram and went to live with him at Varmland, where he had his business.
To them was born a son on September 21, 1879. The son was named Victor, after his uncle, the famous actor, and he was destined to become known to the civilized world as Victor Seastrom, master motion picture director.
In the boy's second year his parents removed to the big city of Stockholm.
When Victor was 7, just starting to primary school, his father died.
The boy went on through school, then through the established courses at Upsala University.
When he was 17 he acted in his first play. It was Sudermann's "Fritz," produced at a theater in Helsingfors, Finland.
In the next twelve years Victor Seastrom received wonderful dramatic training. He acted many parts in many plays. He played in both comedy and drama. He became stage director as well as an actor.
Coming to pictures from the stage as an actor and director in 1912, he was given full leeway and entire responsibility for all the pictures he made. He chose his stories, wrote continuities, made all preparations, >t-lected his actors, directed them (acting as assistant and technical director, often designing sets and even handling the
Portrait by Mishkin New York
camera), then edited the film.
He made his first Swedish feature length picture, "A Man There Was" (from Ibsen's poem, "Terje Vigen").
He made a tragedy of Iceland in three reels, "Eyvind of the Hills," that he still considers his best work. But he says it would not be understood or appreciated in England or America. He proved this with "The Girl from the Marshcroft." ยป
Seastrom made "The Stroke of Midnight," the best-known of his pictures in the United States, in 1920, and has since made four other pictures.
He is now making his first American picture for Goldwyn Pictures Corporation. It is Hall Caine's "The Master of Man."
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