The only Norwegian actress known outside of Norway Liv Ullmann is 80 years old today

This is what I wrote about Greta Gynt in another thread here:

Greta Gynt (1916–2000) was a famous name in the UK just when I started going to "the pictures" with my parents, but I now see that she never appeared in a top rank film. Her career nose-dived when she went to Hollywood to become the next Greta Garbo. She was actually Norwegian, not Swedish, but whose counting?

IMDb says: After retiring from the screen she lived in a luxury Kensington property known simply as 'Mrs Moore' and her career was sadly forgotten when she died in 2000. No television news show covered her passing nor was she honoured at the BAFTA Film awards during the annual tribute to film stars passed away, which was a shame for someone so famous during the 1940s and 50s.

Well, at least she did not die in poverty like so many fallen stars.

I recently watched her in Dear Murderer dir: Arthur Crabtree and Take My Life dir: Ronald Neame (both 1947), probably her two best roles. She was a femme fatale in the former and a sleuthing wife in the latter, but played both the same way, cool and dominant. I imagine she was somewhat inflexible and hard to cast. Pity she never starred for Hitchcock. He liked that type.