Peer Gynt birthplace, where Ibsen claims he found inspiration for the character "Peer Gynt", and is regarded by many as the most authentic version. The play is performed by professional actors from the national theater institutions, and nearly 80 local amateur actors. The music to the play is inspired by the original theatre music by Edvard Grieg - the "Peer Gynt suite". The play is one of the most popular theater productions in Norway, attracting more than 12,000 people every summer. The festival also holds the Peer Gynt Prize, which is a national Norwegian honor prize given to a person or institution
Greta Gynt Is a Woman" (1957) and the lead in "Morning Call" (1957), and "The Crowning Touch" (1959). Gynt had a support role in "Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons" (1959). Her last film was a Columbia Pictures release, "The Runaway" 1963 (released 1966) in which she played the lead. Reportedly, she adopted the name Gynt after she heard a pianist playing Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite" in a hotel in London in the late 1930s. In her 1938 radio interview with NRK she states her husband exclaimed "What's this?" and her name was born. Gynt was married four times. Her last husband was Frederick