TRANSLATION OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLE:
SCOTTISH FILM FAN ON RETURN VISIT
Last year LT wrote about Scot Linda Wood, who has devoted her life to re-establishing the reputation of American B-movie actor Gerald Mohr. Now she has returned to Sweden and Lidingö.
Linda Wood, from Glasgow, Scotland, with the help of the internet, has rekindled her love for the American film star Gerald Mohr.
When LT wrote about her a year ago, she had recently rediscovered the charming baddie, had created her own website about him and had found out that, after he died of a heart attack in Sweden in 1968, he was buried in the graveyard of Lidingö church.
For his birthday, 11 June, she laid a bouquet of forget-me-nots at his grave.
Since then she has learned much more about Mohr. She has been in touch with Tim Dietrich from Hawaii, the son of Mohr's second wife, the Swede, Mai Dietrich.
She has also discovered that he visited Sweden several times in the 50s and 60s. Between the years 1954-55 he recorded several episodes of the gangster series "Foreign Intrigue" here, and 2 years later also made a pilot episode for a show to be called "Rough Sketch", but it came to nothing.
During his 1968 visit, which culminated in his early death, he was recording a pilot episode for a likely new TV series, "Private Entrance", in which Mohr played a hotel detective at a Swedish hotel. Mohr also produced the show in conjunction with an American film company and SF, Svensk Filmindustri.
Linda has also discovered the Swedish film "Wild West Story" from 1964 in which Mohr played the baddie. Linda laughs and says "It must be quite unique where the goodie speaks Swedish and the baddie English!" A glance at the titles show an illustrious Swedish cast were involved, including Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Lena Granhagen, Ingvar Kjellson and Carli Tonehave. "If anyone knows anything more about the film or other Mohr recordings from Sweden, then I'd like to know." says Linda.
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