Alice Babs
Born: 1924-01-26 in Kalmar, Kalmar län, Sweden
Died: 2014-02-11
Known For: Acting
Biography
Hildur Alice Nilson (26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014), known by her stage name Alice Babs, was a Swedish singer. She worked in a wide number of genres – Swedish folklore, Elizabethan songs and opera. While she was best known internationally as a jazz singer, Babs also competed as Sweden's first annual competition entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958. In 1972 she was named Sweden's Royal Court Singer, the first non-opera singer as such.
Filmography
2016
- När molnen skingras as Self
2007
- Alice Babs - Swing It! as Herself
2004
- Swing it Alice! as Self
1997
- Så ska det låta as Self
1995
- Stjärnbilder as (archive footage)
1993
- Minns ni? as (archive footage)
1968
- Det hopfällbara slottet as Mother
1959
- Swinging at the Castle as Inga "Trollet" Larsson
- Pfingstbummel - Pfingstrummel as herself
1958
- Musik ombord as Ulla Wickström
1956
- Swing it, fröken as Alice Lind
- Symphonie in Gold as Singer
1955
1954
- Bitte recht freundlich as Self
1953
- I dur och skur as Greta Norman
- Kungen av Dalarna
- Resan till dej as Gunborg Karlsson
1952
- Drömsemester as Alice Babs
- H.C. Andersens sagor
1950
1947
- Song of Stockholm as Britt Forsberg
1946
- Det glada kalaset as Guest house guest, jazz singer
1945
- Skådetennis as Herself
1944
- Young Eagles as Marianne Hedvall
1942
- A Singing Girl as Inger Babs Jansson
- Our Gang as Alice Bergendahl
1941
- Magistrarna på sommarlov as Inga Danell
1940
- 'Swing It' Teacher as Inga Danell