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Thor Modéen
Thor Modéen

Miller

Håkan Westergren
Håkan Westergren

Henry Miller

Åke Söderblom
Åke Söderblom

Ambrosius Bergman

Birgit Tengroth
Birgit Tengroth

Mary Lind, secretary

Valdemar Dalquist
Valdemar Dalquist

Oskar Fagerberg

Anders Henrikson
Anders Henrikson

Adolf Fagerberg

Eric Abrahamsson
Eric Abrahamsson

Karlsson

Ruth Stevens
Ruth Stevens

Eva Zander

Hjördis Petterson
Hjördis Petterson

Eric Gustafson
Eric Gustafson

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    Mr. Miller is the CEO of a big soap company whose son Henry like to spend his father's money but isn't interesting in working. Henry's laziness makes Mr. Miller upset and stressed out, so he assigns his young secretary (who the son also is in love with) to figure out a way to make Henry work and she will get 10,000 crowns ($1000). But things doesn't really to turn out the way Mr. Miller imagined.

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    1936-08-19

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