Birgit Carp better known by her screen name Git Gay, was a Swedish

Sweden

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 revue

Revue

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 director, actress, and singer.

Git Gay was born Birgit Agda Holmberg in 1921 in Karlshamn

Karlshamn

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, Sweden

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. Her parents wanted her to become a concerto pianist and sent her to the Music Conservatory in Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

. However, in the end of the 1940s, she was invited to act as a prima donna in a summer revue by director Sigge Holmberg. The following year, she performed at the Gröna Lund

Gröna Lund

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 in Stockholm

Stockholm

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 in the revue Klart Grönan. In 1949, she was hired by the entertainer 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....

 to participate in the revue Där de stora torskarna går in Gothenburg

Gothenburg

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In the 1950s, she performed with actor Åke Söderblom

Åke Söderblom

Åke Söderblom was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1933 and 1965.-Selected filmography:* Julia jubilerar * Sailors * Här kommer bärsärkarna -External links:...

 in Ge mig en lektion i kärlek, a show that was sold out for three seasons. Towards the end of the 1950s, she worked with actors such as Nils Poppe

Nils Poppe

Nils Poppe was a Swedish actor, director and screenwriter. He is internationally most famous for his part in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, but in Sweden he was much loved and participated in over 50 films on cinema and TV.He started as a serious stage actor in 1930, but quickly realised that...

 and Albert Gaubier at the Södran Theatre in Malmö, and with director Hagge Geigert at Uddevalla

Uddevalla

Uddevalla is a city and the seat of Uddevalla Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 30,513 inhabitants in 2005.It is located at the bay Byfjorden, of the south-eastern part of the sea known as Skagerrak...

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In 1960, Git Gay set up the Git Gay Show at Lorensberg Theatre in Gothenburg. The show is sometimes considered the first modern restaurant performance in Sweden. Git Gay took personal responsibility for directing, choreography, and designing the costumes. She even went to Las Vegas

Las Vegas Strip

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 to get inspiration for the show. Altogether, Git Gay set up 20 different stage shows, with some performed at the legendary restaurant and entertainment venue Hamburger Börs in Stockholm. With some of the most notable Swedish actors of the time, the shows became quite successful.

In the beginning of the 1990s, she was a senior TV-presenter in a series of revues from Gothenburg. She died in Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

 in 2007, 11 days before her 86th birthday.

External links

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