The Selander Company was a famous and renowned theatre company in Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 from 1889-1928 run by the head-strong theatre couple Hjalmar

Hjalmar Selander

Hjalmar Selander was a Swedish actor, stage director and theatre manager.Selander was active in Gothenburg 1877-79, in various travelling theatre companies 1879-1888 and the Swedish Theatre in 1888-89....

 and Concordia Selander

Concordia Selander

Concordia Cornelia Johanna Selander, née Hård , was a Swedish actress and theatre manager.She first trained at the school of the Royal Swedish Ballet and later at the Royal Theatre's acting school Dramatens elevskola...

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They were famous for discovering and producing young stage talents, for quality productions on tour and for a "respected repertoire" - and, above all, for good finances that actually made sure their actors got paid (something that was important and not all too certain in theatre companies and troupes of those days).

Many of the young talents that started out in the Selander Company later became famous stage actors in Sweden; Lars Hanson

Lars Hanson

Lars Hanson was a Swedish film and stage actor, internationally mostly remembered for his motion picture roles during the silent film era.-Biography:...

, Gösta Ekman (senior)

Gösta Ekman (senior)

Gösta Ekman, Sr. , born Frans Gösta Viktor Ekman, was a Swedish actor. Generally spoken of as Swedish theatre's most legendary stage actor, Gösta Ekman enjoyed a prolific stage career during his short life, becoming the first real star of Swedish theatre...

, Victor Sjöström

Victor Sjöström

Victor Sjöström was a Swedish actor, screenwriter, and film director.- Biography:Born in Silbodal, in the Värmland region of Sweden, he was only a year old when his father, Olof Adolf Sjöström, moved the family to Brooklyn, New York. His mother died when he was seven years old in 1886...

, Olof Winnerstrand

Olof Winnerstrand

Carl Olof Magnus Winnerstrand was a Swedish actor.-Biography:Born in a bourgeois home in Stockholm, Winnerstrand was a son of the well-known Stockholm goldsmith and jeweller C.A. Winnerstrand, and started out in his father's footsteps, learning the trade...

 and Karl Gerhard

Karl Gerhard

Karl Gerhard was a Swedish revue-writer and performer. Many of Karl Gerhard’s plays and songs are politically to the left, and during the 1930s and World War II, they contained clear anti-fascist statements....

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