Tancred Ibsen — Good News for Highbrows (1925) 🇺🇸

If he inherits his grandfather’s talent, Tancred Ibsen will startle the world.

He is a newcomer in the scenario department of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, and the grandson of the Norwegian dramatist, Henrik Ibsen, who wrought a complete upheaval in the technique of the stage a generation ago:

Young Ibsen wants ultimately to produce his grandfather’s plays in film form, and to translate their meaning authentically. One of his first projects would be to make a spectacular version of Peer Gynt, which more than any other play by Ibsen, contains such pictorial material as shipwrecks, and fantastical glimpses of gnomes, fairies, and other imaginary beings, plus situations that shift to all corners of the world.

Ibsen should be well qualified to picturize a story which is such a globe-trotting affair as this is. He has lived in nearly every country in the world, and traveled to such comparative remote regions as Java, Iceland, South Africa and the Argentine. He speaks seven languages quite fluently.

He is married to Sillebil, the Norwegian stage star, who came to America last season and played the leading feminine rôle in Peer Gynt.

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Photo by: Clarence Sinclair Bull (1896–1979)

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, April 1925