Ingrid Bergman the biography

Ingrid Bergman, Actress, - Biography

Actress

Height: 5' 10" (177 CM)
Born August 29, 1915, in Stockholm, Sweden

Died August 29, 1982, London, England, Great Britain

Ingrid Bergman was a three-time Academy Award-winning & two-time Emmy Award-winning Swedish actress. She also won one of the original Tony Awards. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.

. When she was three years old, her mother died. Her father passed away when she was thirteen. She was then sent off to live with an aunt, who died of heart complications only six months later. Afterwards she was raised by another aunt & uncle, who had five children.

At the age of 17, Ingrid Bergman auditioned for & was accepted to the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. During her first summer break, she was hired at a Swedish film studio, which consequently led to her leaving the Royal Dramatic Theater to work in films full time, after having attended for only one year. Her first film role after leaving the Royal Dramatic Theater was a small part in 1935's Munkbrogreven (She had previously been an extra in the 1932 film Landskamp).

Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca.On July 10, 1937, at the age of 21, she married a dentist, Petter Lindström (who would later become a neurosurgeon). On September 20, 1938, she gave birth to a daughter, Pia Lindström.

After a dozen films in Sweden (including En kvinnas ansikte which would later be remade as A Woman's Face with Joan Crawford) & one in Germany, Bergman was signed by Hollywood producer David O. Selznick to star in the 1939 English language remake of her 1936 Swedish language film, Intermezzo. It was an enormous success & Bergman became a star, described as "Sweden's illustrious gift to Hollywood". Some things that set her apart from other female stars in Hollywood at that time were that she did not change her name, her appearance was entirely natural with little to no makeup, & that she was one of the tallest leading ladies.

Hollywood period: 1938-1949
After completing one last film in Sweden & 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.

Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman in Notorious.That same year, she received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), which was also her first color film. The following year she won the Academy Award for Best Actress 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). Later, she would receive another Best Actress nomination for Joan of Arc (1948), an independent film produced by Walter Wanger & initially released through RKO, which Bergman had championed since her arrival in Hollywood & which she had previously acted in as a stage play. Partly because of the scandal with Rossellini, the film was not a big hit, & received disastrous reviews. It was subsequently shorn of 45 minutes, & it was not until its restoration to full length in 1998 & its 2004 appearance on DVD that later audiences could see it as it was intended to be shown.

She also starred in the Alfred Hitchcock films Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), & Under Capricorn (1949).

Between motion pictures, Bergman appeared in the stage plays Liliom, Anna Christie, & Joan of Lorraine. Furthermore, during a press conference in Washington, D.C. for the promotion of Joan of Lorraine, she protested segregation after seeing it first hand at the theater she was acting in. This led to a lot of publicity & some hate mail.

Ingrid Bergman also went to Alaska during World War II in order to entertain troops. Soon after the war ended, she also went to Europe for the same purpose, where she was able to see the devastation caused by the war. It was also during this time that she began a relationship with the famous photographer Robert Capa.

For Whom the Bell Tolls was one of the few color films in which Ingrid Bergman acted during the 1940s.

Italian period: 1949-1957
In 1949, Bergman met Italian director Roberto Rossellini in order to make the film Stromboli (1950), after having been a fan of two of his previous films that she had seen while in the United States. During the making of this movie, she fell in love with him & became pregnant with a son, Roberto Ingmar Rossellini (born February 7, 1950).

The pregnancy caused a huge scandal in the United States. It even led to her being denounced on the floor of the U.S. Senate by Edwin C. Johnson, a Senator from Colorado, who referred to her as "a horrible example of womanhood & a powerful influence for evil." In addition, there was a floor vote, which resulted in her being made a persona non grata. The scandal forced Ingrid Bergman to exile herself to Italy, leaving her husband & daughter in the United States. Her husband, Dr. Petter Lindström, eventually sued for desertion & waged a custody battle for Pia Lindström.

Ingrid Bergman married Roberto Rossellini on May 24, 1950. On June 18, 1952, she gave birth to twin daughters, Isabella Rossellini, who is a famous actress & model, & Isotta Ingrid Rossellini. Over the next few years, she appeared in several Italian films for Rossellini, including Giovanna d'Arco al rogo (1954), a dramatic oratorio by Arthur Honegger about Joan of Arc. The Rossellini-Bergman marriage ended in divorce on November 7, 1957.

After separating from Rossellini she starred in Jean Renoir's Elena & Her Men, a romantic comedy where she played a Polish princess caught in political intrigue. Although the film wasn't a success, it has since come to be regarded as one of her best performances.

During her time in Italy, anger over her private life in the United States had continued unabated, with Ed Sullivan at one point infamously polling his TV show audience as to whether she should be forgiven.

With her starring role in 1956's Anastasia, Bergman made her post-scandal triumphant return to the American screen & won the Academy Award for Best Actress for a second time. This award was accepted for her by her friend Cary Grant. Bergman would not make her first post-scandal public appearance in Hollywood until the 1958 Academy Awards, when she was the presenter of the Academy Award for Best Picture.Furthermore, after being introduced by Cary Grant & walking out on stage to present, she was given a standing ovation.

Bergman would continue to alternate between performances in American & European films for the rest of her career & 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.

During this time, she also performed in several stage plays. In addition, she married the producer Lars Schmidt, a fellow Swede, on December 21, 1958. This marriage ultimately led to divorce in 1975.

In 1972, Senator Charles H. Percy entered an apology into the Congressional Record for the attack made on her 22 years earlier by Edwin C. Johnson.

Bergman received her third Academy Award (and first for Best Supporting Actress) for her performance in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), but she publicly declared at the Academy Awards telecast that year that the award rightfully belonged to Italian actress Valentina Cortese for Day for Night by concluding her acceptance speech with "Please forgive me, Valentina. I didn't mean to."

In 1978, she played in Ingmar Bergman's Höstsonaten (Autumn Sonata) for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination & made her final performance on the big screen. In the film, 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 on her 67th birthday in London, England, following a long battle with breast cancer. Her body was cremated in Sweden. Most of her ashes were scattered in the sea with the remainder being interred in the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm next to her parents. The most heartbreaking moment at her funeral was said to be when a single violin played the song "As Time Goes By", the theme from her most famous role, Casablanca. She was honored posthumously by Ingmar Bergman.
In 1980, Bergman's autobiography was published under the title Ingrid Bergman: My Story & was written with the help of Alan Burgess, who had written The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, the movie version of which had starred Bergman. In the book, Ingrid tells about her childhood, her early career, her life during her time in Hollywood, the Rossellini Scandal, & subsequent events. The book was written after her children warned that she would only be known through rumors & interviews if she did not tell her own story. It was through this autobiography that her affair with Robert Capa became known.
For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Ingrid Bergman has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6759 Hollywood Blvd. She continues to be a cultural icon - not only for her role in Casablanca, but for her career as a whole & for her innocent, natural beauty. In addition, she is considered by many to be one of the foremost actresses of the 20th century.

Ingrid Bergman in Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.There is a hybrid tea rose named after her.
She became a smoker after needing to smoke for her role in Arch of Triumph.
She was the President of the Jury at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
Bergman could speak Swedish (her native language), German (her second language), English (learned when brought over to United States), Italian (learned while exiled in Italy through osmosis from previous knowledge of French), & French (learned formally from language teachers) fluently. Fellow actor John Gielgud, who had acted with her in Murder on the Orient Express & who had directed her in the play The Constant Wife, playfully mocked this ability when he remarked, "She speaks five languages & can't act in any of them."
She was the topic of a Woody Guthrie song entitled "Ingrid Bergman," which was composed in the year 1950. At the request of Woody's daughter Nora Guthrie, English folk-rocker Billy Bragg & the southern-rock group Wilco set these lyrics to music & placed the song on the 1998 hit album "Mermaid Avenue."[9]
She hosted the AFI's Life Achievement Award Ceremony for Alfred Hitchcock in 1979.
After losing to Ingrid Bergman for the 1944 Best Actress Academy Award, Barbara Stanwyck told the press she was a member of the Ingrid Bergman Fan Club, "I don't feel at all bad about the Award because my favorite actress won it & has earned it by all her performances."
Ingrid Bergman was a student of the acting coach Michael Chekhov during the 1940s. Coincidentally, it was his role in Spellbound, of which she was a star, that he received his only nomination for an Academy Award.

I saw a real biography of her in a book shop and she had very good legs

Quotes
“ A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ”

“ Happiness is good health & a bad memory. ”

“ I've gone from saint to whore & back to saint again, all in one lifetime. ”

“ I've never sought success in order to get fame & money; it's the talent & the passion that count in success. ”

Filmography
1932 Landskamp Girl Waiting in Line 1935 Munkbrogreven The Count of the Monk's Bridge Elsa Edlund 1935 Bränningar Ocean Breakers Karin Ingman
1935 Swedenhielms Swedenhielms Family Astrid 1935 Valborgsmässoafton Walpurgis Night Lena Bergström 1936 På solsidan On the Sunny Side Eva Bergh
1936 Intermezzo Anita Hoffman 1938 Dollar Julia Balzar 1938 Kvinnas ansikte, En A Woman's Face Anna Holm, aka Anna Paulsson 1938 Vier Gesellen, Die The Four Companions Marianne 1939 Enda natt, En Only One Night Eva Beckman 1939 Intermezzo: A Love Story Anita Hoffman 1940 Juninatten June Night Kerstin Norbäc - aka Sara Nordanå 1941 Adam Had Four Sons Emilie Gallatin 1941 Rage in Heaven Stella Bergen Monrell 1941 Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Ivy Peterson
1942 Casablanca Ilsa Lund 1943 For Whom the Bell Tolls María 1943 Swedes in America (short subject) Herself 1944 Gaslight Paula Alquist Anton
1945 Saratoga Trunk Clio Dulaine 1945 Spellbound Dr. Constance Petersen 1945 The Bells of St. Mary's Sister Mary Benedict 1946 American Creed (short subject) Herself 1946 Notorious Alicia Huberman 1948 Arch of Triumph Joan Madou 1948 Joan of Arc Joan of Arc 1949 Under Capricorn Lady Henrietta Flusky 1950 Stromboli Karin 1952 Europa '51 The Greatest Love Irene Girard 1953 Siamo donne (segment: "The Chicken") We, the Women Herself
1954 Giovanna d'Arco al rogo Joan of Arc at the Stake Giovanna d'Arco (Joan of Arc) 1954 Viaggio in Italia Journey to Italy Katherine Joyce 1954 La Paura Fear Irene Wagner 1956 Anastasia Anna Koreff/Anastasia 1956 Elena et les hommes Elena & Her Men Elena Sokorowska 1958 Indiscreet Anna Kalman 1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness Gladys Aylward 1961 Aimez-Vous Brahms? Goodbye Again Paula Tessier 1961 Auguste Kolka, My Friend (Uncredited Cameo)
1964 The Visit Karla Zachanassian 1964 The Yellow Rolls-Royce Gerda Millett 1967 Stimulantia (Episode: "The Necklace") Mathilde Hartman
1969 Cactus Flower Stephanie Dickinson 1970 Henri Langlois (documentary) Herself 1970 Walk in the Spring Rain Libby Meredith 1973 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Mrs. Frankweiler 1974 Murder on the Orient Express Greta Ohlsson 1976 A Matter of Time Countess Sanziani 1978 Höstsonaten Autumn Sonata Charlotte Andergas

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