Glorian på sned (The Halo Is Slipping). 1957. Sweden. Written and directed by Hasse Ekman. In Swedish; English subtitles. 93 min.
With Sickan Carlsson, Ekman, Sture Lagerwall. In the late 1950s Ekman made a series of satirical comedies with the popular star Sickan Carlsson, whose bright personality and independent spirit suggest the Swedish equivalent of Doris Day. Anticipating the romantic comedies Day would popularize with Pillow Talk two years later, this 1957 effort finds Carlsson as a secretary at a publishing house who has written, under a pseudonym, a novel about a failed marriage. Various complications ensue involving her boss, her husband, and her husband’s mistress; it even has surreal dream sequences. Unusually for Ekman it was filmed in widescreen and Eastman Color.