Alice Ingegärd Marianne Timander (October 6 1915 – July 3 2007) was a Swedish dentist, but was better known as an entertainer and a Swedish red carpet queen at Stockholm theatre premieres. Born Alice Müller in Stockholm, she grew up in Trelleborg and Eslöv. In 1937, at the age of twenty-one, Alice Timander was the youngest female dentist in Sweden.

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  • Alice Ingegärd Marianne Timander (October 6 1915 – July 3 2007) was a Swedish dentist, but was better known as an entertainer and a Swedish red carpet queen at Stockholm theatre premieres. Born Alice Müller in Stockholm, she grew up in Trelleborg and Eslöv. In 1937, at the age of twenty-one, Alice Timander was the youngest female dentist in Sweden. By that time, Timander had also attended some acting classes at a private institute named Koblancks teaterskola, but did not pursue her dream of becoming an actress. In 1942, she married the Swedish actor Bengt Logardt, with whom she had one child. The marriage let her appear as an extra in some plays and movies. In 1949, Timander was considered for expulsion from the Swedish Dental Association after appearing publicly in a bikini. In her first autobiography, Strunt i kläder, Timander writes that she defied the threat by wearing an even smaller bikini. Together with her second husband, the well-known dentist Torsten Timander, she established volunteer dental practices in Morocco and Egypt. At that time, she had become a national celebrity and appeared in a 1960 revue starring Zarah Leander. In that capacity she later became known as a Swedish red carpet queen, appearing at notable theatre premieres. In her second autobiography Alice Timander, she describes the years as a red carpet queen by her own diagnosis "foyer exhibitionism". Timander was also involved in social politics, advocating free dental care for homeless and elderly people. She billed herself as a politically active Social Democrat, but in 1988 turned to the small Christian Democratic Party to be involved in the party's general election campaign the same year. However, she announced her resignation from the party on the very election night, saying that the party had only taken advantage of her fame and ignored her social ideas of free dental care for the elderly. In 2006, Swedish National Television produced a documentary of Alice Timander named Alice och Jag. The film was nominated for the Guldbagge Award documentary class in 2007. During the final stages of the making of the documentary, Timander was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She died in Stockholm in 2007.
  • Alice Ingegärd Marianne Timander, född Müller 6 oktober 1915, död 3 juli 2007 i sitt hem i Stockholm, var en svensk tandläkare och underhållare. Hon är framför allt känd för sin närvaro på otaliga premiärer. Alice Müller föddes i Stockholm men flyttade vid två års ålder till Trelleborg där fadern fått tjänst som veterinär. När hon var tolv år bosatte sig familjen i Eslöv, där Alice tog studenten 1933. Därefter flyttade hon tillbaka till Stockholm för att studera till tandläkare. Hon tog examen 1937 och var då Sveriges yngsta kvinnliga tandläkare. Hon utövade yrket både i Sverige och utomlands. Samtidigt med tandläkarstudierna tog hon teaterlektioner. Hon var filmskådespelerska i flera svenska filmer under perioden 1935-1982. Som mycket flitig teaterbesökare blev hon känd som "premiärlejon" - själv diagnosticerade hon sig som "foyer-exhibitionist". Hon har också verkat som konferencier och underhållare. Alice Timander skrev fem böcker varav två självbiografiska: Strunt i kläderna (1968) och Alice Timander (1990). Hon var gift med Bengt Logardt mellan 1942 och 1950. Hennes efternamn kommer från Torsten Timander som hon därefter var gift med. Hon har tre barn. Sommaren 2006 var hon en av sommarvärdarna i Sveriges Radio P1. Samma år gjorde Rebecka Rasmusson en dokumentärfilm vid namn Alice och jag, där Alice Timander berättar om sitt liv och sina relationer.
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  • October 6, 1915
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  • July 3, 2007
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  • Alice Ingegärd Marianne Timander (October 6 1915 – July 3 2007) was a Swedish dentist, but was better known as an entertainer and a Swedish red carpet queen at Stockholm theatre premieres. Born Alice Müller in Stockholm, she grew up in Trelleborg and Eslöv. In 1937, at the age of twenty-one, Alice Timander was the youngest female dentist in Sweden.
  • Alice Ingegärd Marianne Timander, född Müller 6 oktober 1915, död 3 juli 2007 i sitt hem i Stockholm, var en svensk tandläkare och underhållare. Hon är framför allt känd för sin närvaro på otaliga premiärer. Alice Müller föddes i Stockholm men flyttade vid två års ålder till Trelleborg där fadern fått tjänst som veterinär. När hon var tolv år bosatte sig familjen i Eslöv, där Alice tog studenten 1933.
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