Ingrid Bergman  

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"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
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




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