The best Håkan Westergren’s comedy movies

Håkan Westergren

Håkan Westergren

29/04/1899- 15/10/1981
Today we present the best Håkan Westergren’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Håkan Westergren’s movies.
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Waiting Women

Waiting Women
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/11/1952
  • Character: Paul Lobelius
Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other stories about their marriages. Rakel tells about the time she had an affair and confronted her husband with it. Marta's story is about how she at first refused to marry and had her child by herself. Karin tells about what happened when one time she and her husband got stuck in an elevator together. While the women tell their stories, Marta's younger sister Maj is planning to elope.

Blåjackor

Blåjackor
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 23/10/1945
  • Character: Cmdr. Lilja
"Sailors" - A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.

Swedenhielms

Swedenhielms
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 08/04/1935
  • Character: Lieutenant Bo Swedenhielm
The Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf Swedenhielm. His three children Bo, Julia and Rolf Jr also live in the house. They also have an excellent house maid, Boman. Because of the family's extravagance, they are heading for bankruptcy. But perhaps their problems would be solved if Rolf was awarded the Nobel Prize?

Stampen

Stampen
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/02/1955
  • Character: Teofron "Tedde" Svensson
Pawnshop assistant Patrick and maid Viveka meet by chance and become fond of each other, but none of them want to reveal his real profession for the other.

The Lustful Vicar

The Lustful Vicar
4.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/03/1970
  • Character: The Bishop
During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who pushed through the accusations and promises that her offspring will avenge her. During the Caroline the priest's son take over as vicar of the congregation, and the daughter of the witch bewitches him so that he suffers constant erection. This is off course very embarrassing for the vicar. The local women has to step in and try to set things right

The Wrong Millionaire

The Wrong Millionaire
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/10/1931
  • Character: Fridolf F. Johnson, miljonär
The American boat is on its way to Gothenburg. On board are the Swedish-American millionaire Fridolf F. Johnson from Detroit (Håkan Westergren) and his male secretary of the same name (Fridolf Rhudin). The millionaire stays hidden in his cabin with the secretary and does not appear on deck. A journalist arrives out at sea by airplane and asks for an interview, which the millionaire refuses to agree to. The journalist disguises himself as a steward, puts on a hidden camera (a spy camera) in the buttonhole, enters with a tea tray and photographs the wrong person - the secretary.

Pappa sökes

Pappa sökes
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/06/1947
Holger Hallman, CEO of a weapons factory try to prevent his son Tom from dating a manucurist, Lydia. By mistake he try to pay off the wrong manicurist, Mary, who by coincidence has a fiancé named Tom.

For Her Sake

For Her Sake
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/08/1930
  • Character: Sigvard Löfgren
The young married couple Sigvard and Isabella Löfgren are constantly being sought by different companies where they are trading on the bill. Sigvard is a traveling salesman and Isabella works as a secretary at a theatre agency seeking artists for a revue.

En förtjusande fröken

En förtjusande fröken
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/12/1945
  • Character: Company manager
Insurance salesman Paul is to be engaged with Louise, the daughter of his boss. Trying to sell insurance to a millionaire he meet the millionaire's daughter Annette whom he fall in love with after complications and funny business.

Tonight or Never

Tonight or Never
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/06/1941
  • Character: Bertil Hallgren
Swedish Comedy film

It Pays to Advertise!

It Pays to Advertise!
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/08/1936
  • Character: Henry Miller
Mr. Miller is the CEO of a big soap company whose son Henry like to spend his father's money but isn't interesting in working. Henry's laziness makes Mr. Miller upset and stressed out, so he assigns his young secretary (who the son also is in love with) to figure out a way to make Henry work and she will get 10,000 crowns ($1000). But things doesn't really to turn out the way Mr. Miller imagined.

Gröna hissen

Gröna hissen
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/07/1944
  • Character: Filip Hanell
Ulla thinks her husband Billy is boring and starts dating other men. Lillans husband Peter is having important meetings, including girls. Billy and Lillan decides to pretend to be in love, to rouse jealousy of Ulla and Peter.

Fridas visor

Fridas visor
4.4/10

Dollar

Dollar
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/09/1938
  • Character: Ludvig von Battwyhl
Ludvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class millionaires. They don't seem to do any real work but still need a vacation in the mountains. Everybody seems to be romantically involved with everybody. A rich American woman joins them.

Kyssen på kryssen

Kyssen på kryssen
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/12/1950
  • Character: Felix Yhlén
Lasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a lighthearted comedy. The filming takes place in different cities across Europe and North Africa so Brenner and the crew have to sail on a cruse ship. Brenner's wife suspects he has an affair with the lead actress, so she also boards the ship undercover to keep an eye on him.

Bröllopsresan

Bröllopsresan
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/04/1936
  • Character: Count Erik Lejonsköld
Director Björkman travels to Copenhagen with his daughter Astrid, who is together with a certain Count Erik Lejonsköld. They will take their father-in-law's car and go on a honeymoon to the Riviera. But "Count" gets a telegram from London calling him to a business meeting. Dad Björkman and the daughter decide to go to the Riviera while the suitor must come later. The real Count Erik Lejonsköld comes home to his office in Stockholm and is congratulated on the wedding by his staff. But he did not get married at all, it was a scammer instead of Henry. Erik searches the newspaper notice his wedding announced in Copenhagen and sees a chance to expose the imposter.

Forelsket i København

Forelsket i København
6.2/10
Forelsket i København is a 1960 Danish romance film directed by Finn Henriksen and starring Siw Malmkvist.

Kungen kommer

Kungen kommer
4.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/03/1936
  • Character: Charles-Emile Spaak
A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between the leading actor Leonard Pettersson and the king Charles XV.With Pettersson dressed as the king and the other actors as the royal suite, they all go to Herrsunda castle where the officer is trying to make an impression on his fiance.

Sara Learns Manners

Sara Learns Manners
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/08/1937
  • Character: Teddy Haller

Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca

Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca
3.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/08/1962
  • Character: Manager
Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn has found an old pirate map that leads them to the island Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea as they search for the hidden treasure.

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