Hasso, Signe

▪ 2003

Signe Eleonora Cecilia Larsson Hasso 

      Swedish-born actress (b. Aug. 15, 1910, Stockholm, Swed.—d. June 7, 2002, Los Angeles, Calif.), appeared in a wide variety of moderately successful (often villainous) roles in European and American films, beginning with Tystnadens hus (1933) in her native Sweden. In 1942 she moved to Hollywood, where her movies included Heaven Can Wait (1943), The Seventh Cross (1944), The House on 92nd Street (1945), and A Double Life (1947). She later worked onstage and on television. Hasso also published novels and short stories, composed songs, and wrote or translated (usually from Swedish to English) song lyrics, notably for the album Scandinavian Folk Songs Sung and Swung. She was made a knight first-class in Sweden's Royal Order of Vasa in 1972.

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