Sylvi Salonen mastered each comedy and tragedy on stage. They have been additionally in his personal life.
Few Finns have been described by as many mouths as an enormous diva, however within the case of actress Sylvi Salonen, everybody who knew her appeared to agree with the outline.
Salonen was born in Pori on March 1, 1920, the primary little one of a well-to-do working class household. Salonen, who cherished performs and the theater as a toddler, ended up on stage early. Salonen was a 14-year-old economics scholar when he turned an everyday night assistant at Porin Theatre.
Sylvi Salonen – The final diva within the biography (Minerva) it’s mentioned that on the age of 17, Salose had a alternative: whether or not she would take a place as a maid in an excellent household with an inexpensive wage or an apprentice place in a theater with virtually no pay. The selection was straightforward for him.
Salonen quickly danced contentedly within the again row. Later, his path led to the Tampere Theater and from there to the Tampere Staff’ Theater.
Salonen turned referred to as a comic, but additionally for severe roles. Though Salonen made his profession on the theater stage, he was conscious of the popularity that TV roles introduced.
Salo has been described as an individual for interviews and he was comfortable to current his residence and discuss his life within the pages of magazines. The biography says that Salonen loved being worshiped and admired.
The performing legend by no means had a household or youngsters, however he had a profitable profession, a house in Tampere, a summer time villa on an island together with his personal “Riviera” and a miniature pinscher. Like her proprietor, Chérie lived as a lot at residence as she did on the theater. Within the theater dressing room, he heard his mistress’s voice over the loudspeakers.
Sylvi Salonen by no means married. THE-arkisto
Underneath the slipper out of the highlight
Why did Salonen take pleasure in being single? These near the actor believed that the explanation was surrendering to the theater.
Salonen fell in love and fell in love simply. The guide says that Salonen maintained the picture of an unattainable single and girl of the world. In newspaper articles, Salonen favored to trace about males – younger, wealthy, indulgent… She let it’s identified that she “is not a nun” and that she “would not all the time eat breakfast alone”.
However solely the closest knew Salonen and the actor Yrjö “Ykä” Kallionpää concerning the relationship. The connection remained hidden from the general public. Kallionpää was 13 years youthful than Salo. Some claimed that the person was even below the slipper.
Salonen maintained the picture of an unattainable single and girl of the world.
Kallionpää was referred to as a warm-hearted man, however his relationship with alcohol was not with out issues. Whereas Salonen excelled in main roles, Kallionpää remained a prisoner of secondary roles.
The person’s checklist of roles included, amongst different issues, “tain muna” within the play The horrible lifetime of the nice GargantuaSalonen’s biography tells.
The guide describes that Salonen handled Kallionpäät because it damage. Kallionpää was even blamed for the dying of Chérie’s canine. The canine misplaced its mood in the course of outside play, and the alarmed man is claimed to have run to the theater. Salonen, who was reverse, turned enraged. It was apparent to him that the canine died as a result of the person did not give the polo, who was affected by coronary heart issues, the cognac he wanted.
Kallionpää had tried. He had run to the hut, however there they did not give the canine slop combined with a splash of milk.
The connection got here to an finish when Kallionpää left for the Jyväskylä Metropolis Theater in 1975. He died in 1983 when he was 50 years previous.
It was apparent to him that the canine died as a result of the person did not give the polo, who was affected by coronary heart issues, the cognac he wanted.
Financial savings for the grave
It was clear that Salonen gave his life to the theater. Salosen was additionally awarded the title of theater advisor.
The guide says that the actor had financial savings that he had deliberate to donate to the theater museum to be established in Tampere. He already noticed together with his soul’s eyes the gilded signal on the Sylvi Salonen museum on Sylvi Salonen avenue. The title of Hämeenpuisto was modified after him. It was Väinö Linnan too acquired its personal sq..
Nonetheless, the mayor was not enthusiastic concerning the venture, however answered diplomatically that we’d watch.
Salonen acquired bloody indignant. He rejected the thought of donating and invested his cash within the design of his grave monument. He needed an enormous black panther to embellish his grave. To not Tampere, however to Pori, the place the worth of a terrific star born in Pori was understood. The black panther nonetheless decorates Salonen’s grave immediately.
Sylvi Salonen and fellow actress Sinikka Sokka on the Telvis gala in 1998. THE-arkisto
Emilia Vilén
Salonen had acted on TV, amongst different issues Heikki and Kaija sequence, however maybe his best-known TV function was in a comedy sequence Fill her up.
“Emilia Vilén, with an apostrophe!”, are the enduring phrases of Salonen’s function because the outspoken hostess of the fuel station.
Salonen performed the hostess of a fuel station within the sequence “Tankki riune”. Within the picture, the principle stars of the sequence Ilmari Saarelainen, Sylvi Salonen and Tauno Karvonen. YLE TV 2 Info
Sequence collectively Jussi Tuominen Neil Hardwick, who co-wrote the screenplay, mentioned in Salonen’s biography that working with the star was sensible, and at the least not troublesome. No, though Salose had a popularity as a troublesome individual.
Though 46 years have handed because the first present of the sequence, the sequence has not fallen into oblivion. The sequence has been proven in reruns and may be discovered at Yle Areena.
The star light
Salonen acquired an residence for the remainder of his life at Hämeenpuisto 39, reverse which TTT’s present purple brick constructing was accomplished. From the lounge you would see the group.
– From that you would fly throughout the road to work on a liana, like Tarzan, Salonen mentioned in an interview with Iltalehti in April 1983.
TTT was Salonen’s most beloved and long-term job: he retired after greater than 35 years of being connected, and even after that he returned to the stage to go to.
In his final years, Salonen misplaced weight, his reminiscence additionally weakened. The latest TV roles have been Fireplace port (1998) and Hovimäki (2002).
From there you would fly throughout the road on a liana to work.
Salonen lived within the instant neighborhood of his office. Brother Matti Parkkinen
The 80-year-old actor took to the stage of Työväe teatteri Kellariteatteri in March 2000 within the efficiency Tonight Sylvi Salonen. The auditorium was offered out.
Salonen’s energy waned. The guide says that the final individual to see him was longtime colleague Eila Roine.
– He had misplaced lots of weight. I mentioned climate you look good. Sure, replied Sylvi, however I by no means knew {that a} teacup may weigh a lot, Roine mentioned in Salonen’s biography.
On the second day, the curtain on the door was pulled down, and also you could not see into the room. It was December 23, 2003. The diva of the theater world had left for the final time.
There was no Sylvi Salonen avenue, however in 2017 TTT reported that the massive stage space has been named Sylvi.
Sources: Pirkko Vekkel and Ismo Loivamaa’s guide Sylvi Salonen – The Final Diva (Minerva) and Iltalehti’s archive
The theater attracted Salo as a toddler. He had an extended profession at TTT. THE-arkisto
Corrected on July 28, 2024 at 10:40 a.m. Neil Hardwick didn’t direct the Full Tank sequence, however wrote it along with Jussi Tuominen.
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