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Women Pioneers of Silent CinemaFilm 11 of 22
Live Your Life Smiling
Lev livet leende
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The only complete survivor of Pauline Brunius's six Vinner-family shorts, Swedish situation comedies that played in front of the feature in 1920 to 1924. Olof and Frida Winnerstrand, a real married couple from the Stockholm stage, play a lawyer and his wife; Brunius's son Palle is their boy Putte. One morning Mrs. Vinner, reading the Swedish edition of Douglas Fairbanks's self-help book Laugh and Live (Lev livet leende), tells her grouchy husband to take the slogan as a rule. He smiles at everyone. He is taken for a drunk, a madman, and a flirt. He ends by sending Fairbanks a bill for pain and suffering. Brunius, who would become the first woman to run the Royal Dramatic Theatre, never mentioned these films in her memoirs. This one is the proof she could already do what sitcoms would later industrialize: a single comic premise, run until it breaks.
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Women Pioneers of Silent Cinema
Pauline Brunius wrote and directed the Vinner-family shorts that Swedish cinemas ran in front of the feature from 1920 to 1924, situation comedies built on a single premise and then run until it breaks. This is the only one that survives complete; Svenska Filminstitutet holds the print. Olof and Frida Winnerstrand, a married couple from the Stockholm stage, play the lawyer and his wife; Brunius's son Palle is their boy. She later became the first woman to run the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and she left these films out of her memoirs, so the reel is the evidence she already knew how to work from behind the camera.
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