Ingrid Bergman
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"In 1947, at the height of her fame as the leading Hollywood star, Ingrid Bergman saw Rossellini's Open City and Paisan, his two neorealist masterpieces, in a small New York theater."--Enjoy Your Symptom! (1992) by Slavoj Žižek |
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Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 - 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films, television movies, and plays.
Born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German mother, Bergman began her acting career in Swedish and German films. Her introduction to the U.S. audience came in the English-language remake of Intermezzo (1939). Known for her naturally luminous beauty, she starred in Casablanca (1942) as Ilsa Lund, her most famous role, opposite Humphrey Bogart, although she was not nominated for a Academy Award. Bergman's notable performances in the 1940s include the dramas For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) with Gary Cooper, Gaslight (1944), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), and Joan of Arc (1948), all of which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress; she won for Gaslight. She made three films with Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound (1945), with Gregory Peck, Notorious (1946), opposite Cary Grant and Under Capricorn (1949), alongside Joseph Cotten.
In 1950, she starred in Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli, released after the revelation she was having an affair with Rossellini; that and her pregnancy prior to their marriage created a scandal in the U.S. that prompted her to remain in Europe for several years. During this time she starred in Rossellini's Europa '51 and Journey to Italy (1954), now critically acclaimed. She had a successful return to working for a Hollywood studio in Anastasia (1956), winning her second Academy Award for Best Actress. Soon after, she co-starred with Grant in the romance Indiscreet (1958). In later years, Bergman won her third Academy Award, this one for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Murder on the Orient Express (1974). In 1978, she starred in Ingmar Bergman's (no relation) Swedish Autumn Sonata receiving her sixth Best Actress nomination. Bergman spoke five languages – Swedish, English, German, Italian and French – and acted in each.
In her final role, she portrayed the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the television miniseries A Woman Called Golda (1982) for which she posthumously won her second Emmy Award for Best Actress. In 1974, Bergman discovered she was suffering from breast cancer but continued to work until shortly before her death on her sixty-seventh birthday (29 August 1982). According to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Bergman quickly became "the ideal of American womanhood" and a contender for Hollywood's greatest leading actress. David O. Selznick once called her "the most completely conscientious actress" he had ever worked with. In 1999, the American Film Institute recognised Bergman as the fourth greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
Filmography
Year | Film | English Title | Role |
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1930s | |||
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 | En kvinnas ansikte | A Woman's Face | Anna Holm, aka Anna Paulsson |
1938 | Die Vier Gesellen | The Four Companions | Marianne |
1939 | En enda natt | Only One Night | Eva Beckman |
1939 | Intermezzo: A Love Story | Anita Hoffman | |
1940s | |||
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 and 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 | |
1950s | |||
1950 | Stromboli | Karin | |
1952 | Europa '51 | The Greatest Love | Irene Girard |
1953 | Siamo donne (segment: "Ingrid Bergman") | 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 and Her Men | Elena Sokorowska |
1958 | Indiscreet | Anna Kalman | |
1958 | The Inn of the Sixth Happiness | Gladys Aylward | |
1960s | |||
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 | |
1970s | |||
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 Andergast |