Swedish Actress Lindfors Dies At 74

Viveca Lindfors, the tall, dark and square-shouldered Swedish actress whose towering presence made her a star in dozens of movies and plays, died Wednesday in Uppsala, Sweden. She was 74.

Miss Lindfors appeared in many plays in Sweden and was considered that country’s leading film attraction before leaving in 1946 for the United States, where her auburn hair and elegant features led more than one observer to proclaim her an actress of Garboesque beauty.

Her American screen debut was two years later in “Night Unto Night,” with Ronald Reagan. The director was Don Siegel, who would become her third husband.

Her early starring roles in American movies included parts in “Adventures of Don Juan” (1948), with Errol Flynn; “No Sad Songs for Me” (1950), with Margaret Sullavan, and “Four in a Jeep” (1951), with Ralph Meeker, for which she won the “Best Actress of the Year” International Film Award.

Her 1955 Broadway debut in the title role of “Anastasia,” a drama about a woman claiming to be the missing daughter of Czar Nicholas II, won her immediate acclaim.