Ingrid Bergman
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 Publicity shot of Ingrid Bergman in "Notorious".
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- born: 29/Aug/1915 (Stockholm, Sweden)
- died: 29/Aug/1982 (London, England, UK) - breast cancer
[edit] Biography
Ingrid Bergman was a three-time Academy Award-winning Swedish actress.
[edit] Early career
Bergman studied at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm. Her first film role was a small part in 1935's Munkbrogreven (English title, The Count of the Old Town), although it is believed that she had previously been an extra in the 1932 film Landskamp).
After a dozen films in Sweden and one in Germany (including "En kvinnas ansikte" which would later be remade as "A Woman's Face" with Joan Crawford), Bergman was signed by Hollywood producer David O Selznick to star in the English language remake of her 1936 Swedish language film, "Intermezzo" (1939). The "Intermezzo" remake was an enormous success and Bergman was a star, described as "Sweden's illustrious gift to Hollywood".
[edit] Hollywood career
After completing one last film in Sweden and appearing in three moderately successful films in the United States, Bergman joined Humphrey Bogart in the 1942 classic film "Casablanca", which remains her most recognizable role.
That same year, she received her first Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1943). The following year she won the Best Actress award for "Gaslight" (1944). She received a third consecutive nomination for Best Actress with her performance as a nun in "The Bells of St. Mary's" (1945). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for "Joan of Arc" (1948), a film produced by Howard Hughes which Bergman had championed since her arrival in Hollywood.
She also starred in the Alfred Hitchcock films "Spellbound" (1945), "Notorious" (1946), and "Under Capricorn" (1949).
Between motion pictures, Bergman also appeared in several stage plays, including a version of the Joan of Arc story.
[edit] Relationship with Rossellini
In 1949, Bergman met Italian director Roberto Rossellini. She fell in love with him while performing in his film "Stromboli" (1950). Bergman left her husband, Dr. Aron Petter Lindström and their daughter, Pia Lindström, for Rossellini.
They married on 24 May 1950, and had three children, a son named Roberto Ingmar Rossellini, and twin daughters, Isabella Rossellini, who is a famous actress and model, and Isotta Ingrid Rossellini. The affair caused a scandal; Bergman, who was pregnant at the time of the marriage, was branded as "Hollywood's apostle of degradation" and forced to leave the States. Over the next few years, she appeared in several Italian films for Rossellini, including "Giovanna d'Arco al rogo" (1954), a remake of "Joan of Arc". The Rossellini-Bergman marriage ended in divorce on 7 November 1957.
[edit] Return to Hollywood
With her starring role in 1956's "Anastasia", Bergman made her post-scandal triumphant return to Hollywood and won the Best Actress Oscar for a second time. She would continue to alternate between performances in American and European films for the rest of her career and also made occasional appearances in television dramas such as a 1959 production of "The Turn of the Screw" for Startime for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress.
Bergman received her third Academy Award (and first for Best Supporting Actress) for her performance in "Murder on the Orient Express" (1975), but she publicly declared at the Academy Awards telecast that year that the award rightfully belonged to Italian actress Valentina Cortese.
[edit] Later years
In 1978, she played in Ingmar Bergman's "Höstsonaten" (Autumn Sonata) for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on the big screen. Bergman plays a celebrity pianist who returns to Sweden to visit her neglected daughter, played by Liv Ullman. The film was shot in Norway. It is considered by many to be among Ingrid's best performances.
Bergman was honored posthumously with her second Emmy Award for Best Actress in 1982 for the television mini-series "A Woman Called Golda", about the late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir. It was her final acting role. One of her co-stars in this mini-series was Leonard Nimoy.
Bergman died in 1982 in London, England following a long battle with breast cancer on her 67th birthday. Her body was cremated in Sweden and her ashes scattered with a part kept to be interred in the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm. She was honored posthumously by Ingmar Bergman.
For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Ingrid Bergman has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6759 Hollywood Blvd. She contines to be a cultural icon, most notably for her role in "Casablanca", but also for her career as a whole, and for her innocent beauty. She is considered by many to one of the foremost actresses of the 20th Century.
[edit] Filmography
With Hitchcock...
- Spellbound (1945) - cast: Dr. Constance Petersen
- Notorious (1946) - cast: Alicia Huberman
- Under Capricorn (1949) - cast: Lady Henrietta Flusky
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[edit] Books
"Ingrid: Ingrid Bergman, A Personal Biography" by Charlotte Chandler
"Notorious: The Life of Ingrid Bergman" by Donald Spoto
"Ingrid Bergman My Story" by Ingrid Bergman and Alan Burgess
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