Gorgeous Photos of Greta Gynt in the 1940s and ’50s

Born 1916 as Margrethe Woxholt in Oslo, Norwegian dancer and actress Greta Gynt played lead roles in minor British films in the 1930s and early 40s, and by the late 40s she appeared in major films. The Rank Organisation tried to market her as the British Jean Harlow. She also attempted a career in the US, starring in MGM’s Soldiers Three (1951) before returning to Britain.

Her most famous films are the 1939 Bela Lugosi film The Dark Eyes of London as the tough heroine, heroic as an underground leader in Tomorrow We Live (1943), touching as Jewish Elsie Silver in Mr. Emmanuel (1944), forceful as loyal wife proving her husband’s innocence in the thriller Take My Life, a promiscuous murderess in Dear Murderer, both in 1947, and as a nightclub singer singing “The Shady Lady Spiv” in Easy Money (1948).

Her last film was The Runaway in 1963 (released by Columbia Pictures in 1966), in which she played the lead. She died in 2000 in London, aged 83. Take a look at these gorgeous photos to see the beauty of young Greta Gynt in the 1940s and 1950s.