- Child with Strindberg: Anne-Marie Hagelin, born 25 March 1902, died 17 August 2007, 105 years old.
- The actress Harriet Bosse began her stage career at a company of her sister Alma Fahlstrom, it followed engagements in Stockholm which made Harriet Bosse a well-known stage actress. There she met the writer August Strindberg and they got married in 1901. At that time Harriet Bosse impersonate many leading roles in plays written by Strindberg.
- The year 1912 was a year of loss for Harriet Bosse. Her ex-husband August Strindberg died of cancer, her nephew Arne Fahlstrom died by the sinking of the Titanic and her second ex-husband Gunnar Wingard committed suicide.
- Because August Strindberg was insanely jealous and the marriage was an up and down - which is reflected in many letters who were published later - and the marriage was divorced.
- After her divorce from August Strindberg she got married with the actors Anders Gunnar and Edvin Adolphson.
- Her last silent movie came in 1920 into being with "Karin Ingmarsdotter" directed by Victor Sjöström. It lasted 16 years before Harriet Bosse took part in a movie again with "Bombi Bitt och jag" (1936). Afterwards followed her last cinematical works in the 40s with "Anna Lans" (1943) and "Appassionata" (1944).
- Harriet Bosse entered the film business in 1919 and she appeared in front of the camera for the Swedish silent movie "Ingmarssönerna" (1919) with Victor Sjöström and for the German silent movie "Kameraden" (1919) with Alfred Abel.
- Besides her sister Alma her sister Dagmar Bosse became a stage actress too.
- Strindberg wrote a number of major roles for Bosse during their short and stormy relationship, especially in 1900-01, a period of great creativity and productivity for him. Like his previous two marriages, the relationship failed as a result of Strindberg's jealousy, which some biographers have characterized as paranoid.
- On retiring after a high-profile acting career based in Stockholm, she returned to her roots in Oslo.
- Bosse made two films, ambitiously shot and directed and based on novels by well-known writers. The artistic achievement of Sons of Ingmar (1919) has been highly praised. Directed by and co-starring Victor Sjöström, it was based on a novel by Swedish Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf; many years later, Ingmar Bergman referred to Sons of Ingmar as a "magnificent, remarkable film" and acknowledged his own debt to Sjöström. Bosse, who played the female lead Brita, called Sons of Ingmar "the only worthwhile Swedish film I was involved in." However, the film failed to give her career the kind of fresh start that the Swedish film industry had given Edvin Adolphson, and it was seventeen years before she made another film. This was Bombi Bitt and I (1936), her only talkie, based on Fritiof Nilsson Piraten's popular first novel with the same title and directed by Gösta Rodin. Bombi Bitt was a successful, though more lightweight, production with a smaller Bosse role ("Franskan").
- Despite her real-life role as muse to Strindberg, she remained an independent artist.
- Bosse was born in Norway's capital Kristiania, today called Oslo, as the thirteenth of fourteen children of Anne-Marie and Johann Heinrich Bosse.
- Bosse married Swedish actor Anders Gunnar Wingård in 1908, and Swedish screen actor, director, and matinee idol Edvin Adolphson in 1927. All three of her marriages ended in divorce after a few years, leaving her with a daughter by Strindberg and a son by Wingård.
- Having secured an engagement at the Royal Dramatic Theatre ("Dramaten"), the main drama venue of Sweden's capital Stockholm, Bosse caught the attention of Strindberg with her intelligent acting and exotic "oriental" appearance.
- Bosse began her career in a minor company run by her forceful older sister Alma Fahlstrøm in Kristiania (now Oslo, the capital of Norway).
- After a whirlwind courtship, which unfolds in detail in Strindberg's letters and diary, Strindberg and Bosse were married in 1901, when he was 52 and she 23.
- The spectrum of Strindberg's feelings about Bosse, ranging from worship to rage, is reflected in the roles he wrote for her to play, or as portraits of her.
- Her German father was a publisher and bookseller, and his business led to the family's alternating residence in Kristiania and Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Bosse was to experience some confusion of national identity throughout her life, and to take the 512 kilometers (318 mi) rail trip between the cities many times. A bold, independent child, she first made the journey alone when she was only six years old.
- A celebrity in her day, Bosse is now most commonly remembered as the third wife of the playwright August Strindberg.
- Retiring from the stage during World War II, Bosse considered moving back to Norway's capital Oslo, the home of her childhood and youth. Both her children had settled there. The move was delayed for ten years, during which she travelled whenever possible, and when it took place in 1955, she perceived it to be a mistake.
- Bosse always guarded her privacy, so much so that the memoir she wrote of her life with Strindberg was deemed to be too uninterestingly discreet to be publishable.
- Her brother Ewald's death in 1956 left her the only survivor of the fourteen children of Anne-Marie and Johann Heinrich Bosse. "How I long desperately for Stockholm", she wrote to a friend in 1958. "My whole life is there." She became chronically melancholy, enduring failing health and bitter memories of the final phase of her career at Dramaten.
- Bosse and August Strindberg were married on 6 May 1901. Strindberg insisted that Bosse bring none of her possessions to the home he had furnished for her, creating a "setting in which to nurture and dominate her".
- Strindberg claimed that Queen Christina was an "explanation" of Bosse's character as being that of an actress in real life, flirtatious and deceitful. In his influential Strindberg biography, Lagercrantz describes this play as a synopsis of the entire course of the Bosse-Strindberg marriage. He sees the courtiers as representing various stages of Strindberg's own emotions: Tott, in the first glow of love; de la Gardie, betrayed but loyal; Oxenstierna, who has rejected her. Each of the three men has words to speak which Strindberg himself had spoken to Bosse.
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