Anna Hofman-Uddgren

In her unpublished memoirs, Hofman-Uddgren stated that when she was seventeen, she was taken to Stockholm Palace by her mother, where she was introduced in private to the king, and that he asked her if there was anything he could do for her.

In 1887, Oscar II financed a trip to Paris, where she remained for eight years, studying the French language and singing.

Oscar II did not approve of her choice of career, and retracted his allowance, and she was engaged as a singer in an operetta company, touring France and Italy.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Anna Hofman-Uddgren assumed management of the popular open-air music hall theater Kristallsalongen in Djurgården.

In 1897, film was launched in Sweden, and Hofman-Uddgren was among the very first to use this new art form in her establishment: movie strips were shown regularly in her theater from the 1890s onward.

[6] She married screenwriter, poet, journalist, and author Karl Gustaf Uddgren (1865–1927) in 1900 and they had six children: five daughters and one son.