Ms. Lindfors was a Swedish-born actress whose stage and screen career
in the U.S. and Sweden spanned more than half a century. She was
brought to Hollywood in 1946 by Warner Brothers in the hope that she
would be a new Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman. She appeared with Ronald Reagan in her
first Hollywood film, Don Siegel's Night Unto Night (1949). Perhaps best known as a stage
actress, she returned to Sweden in August 1995 to tour with the play
"In Search of Strindberg".
In 1990, while walking to a New York theatre production she was
appearing in, Viveca was assaulted and her face slashed. After
receiving stitches for the wound, she continued on to the rehearsal.
When she was included in the "In Memoriam" segment of the Academy Awards in 1996, the Academy showed a scene from The Sure Thing (1985) where she had a supporting role as a professor. In the scene, she's smiling and spreading her arms.
Son, John Tabori (born John Hasso, 1943 in Sweden).