Oslo 1954-03: Filmball at the Grand Hotel. In the middle of the snow slap and...

Oslo 1954-03: Filmball at the Grand Hotel. In the middle of the snow slap and Mondays, Oslo gets the frivolous whim to want to play Hollywood for an evening and one night. The Norwegian Film Critics team and the film record ally with the Travel Traffic Association for Oslo and the surrounding area and arrange a huge film ball at the Grand Hotel. The pretext is that money will be raised for film grants and other good film purposes, but it is easily transparent camouflage. Actually, the film ball is a well -known attempt to chase the winter frost out of mind and sense with a slightly liberating carnival mood. In the absence of the sun outside, both the fashionable and the not so fashionable Oslo would like to sunbathe in the brilliance of movie star fame. The picture: Charming Mademoiselle Barbara Laage from Paris was one of the three foreign movie stars who visited the Film Ballet at the Grand Hotel in Oslo to shine the event. Barbara Laage, best known from the movie "The Decent Skjøgen", was wearing cracking red hair and sea green dress, and won big. Photo: SV. A. Børretzen / Aktuell / NTB