Alma Fahlstrøm
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Alma Isabella Bosse was born in Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

, and became a well known Norwegian actress and theatre manager together with her husband Johan Fahlstrøm
Johan Fahlstrøm
Johan Peter Broust Fahlstrøm was born in Trondheim, Norway. He was regarded as Norway's leading male actor before World War I. Fahlstrøm was also a theatre manager, and, together with his wife Alma, he ran the Fahlstrøm's Theatre in Christiania...

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Their only son, Arne Fahlstrøm, drowned in the Titanic disaster. As they had no other children, they willed their fortune to the Norwegian Sea Rescue Society, which used it to purchase a rescue boat that was given Arne's name.

The sister of Alma, Harriet Bosse
Harriet Bosse
Harriet Sofie Bosse was a Swedish–Norwegian actress. A celebrity in her own day, Bosse is today most commonly remembered as the third wife of August Strindberg, an influential playwright. Bosse began her career in a minor company run by her forceful older sister Alma Fahlstrøm in Kristiania...

 was married to August Strindberg
Strindberg
Strindberg may refer to:People* August Strindberg , Swedish dramatist and painter* Nils Strindberg , Swedish photographer* Anita Strindberg , Swedish actor* Henrik Strindberg , Swedish composerOther...

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