Sunday 10 June 2012

Classic Female Actresses

Classic Female Actresses Biography

INGRID BERGMAN Biography
Name: Ingrid Bergman                                                                                  
Born: 29 August 1915 Stockholm, Sweden                                                                
Died: 29 August 1982 London, United Kingdom                                                          
Ingrid Bergman (August 29, 1915 – August 29, 1982) was a three-time Academy Award-winning          
and two-time Emmy Award-winning Swedish actress. She also won the Tony Award for                      
Best Actress in the first Tony Award ceremony in 1947. She is ranked as the                          
fourth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.                                                                                                                                     
Bergman, named after Princess Ingrid of Sweden, was born in Stockholm, Sweden                        
on August 29, 1915 to a Swedish father, Justus Samuel Bergman, and a German                          
mother, Friedel Adler Bergman. When she was three years old, her mother died and                      
her father passed away when she was thirteen. She was then sent to live with an                    
aunt, who died of heart complications only six months later. Afterwards she was                      
raised by another aunt and uncle, who had five children.                                              
At the age of 17, Ingrid Bergman auditioned for and 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).                                                                                                                                                                                                 
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) and 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. According to                          
Bergman's A&E Biography, Selznick suggested she change her name, have her teeth                      
capped, and her eyebrows plucked, but Ingrid was having none of it. Taken aback                      
by her reply, Selznick changed his mind, allowing Ingrid to keep all her real                        
features and her real name. Intermezzo was an enormous success and 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, and that she was one of the tallest leading ladies.                                                                                                                                     
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 best known role. Bergman did not                      
consider Casablanca to be one of her favorite performances. "I made so many                        
films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about                      
is that one with Bogart." About Bogart, she said "I never really knew him. I                          
kissed him, but I didn't know him."                                                                                                                                                                         
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).                      
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 and has                      
earned it by all her performances." She received a third consecutive                                  
nomination for Best Actress with her performance as a nun in The Bells of St.                        
Mary's (1945). Bergman had been considered for the role of Mother Maria-Veronica                      
in 1944's The Keys of the Kingdom, but the part ultimately went to Rose Stradner,                    
who was then the wife of the film's producer, Joseph Mankiewicz.                                                                                                                                             
Later, she would receive another Best Actress nomination for Joan of Arc (1948),                    
an independent film produced by Walter Wanger and initially released through RKO.                    
Bergman had championed the role since her arrival in Hollywood, which is one of                      
the reasons she had played it on the Broadway stage in Maxwell Anderson's Joan                        
of Lorraine. Partly because of the scandal with Rossellini, the film, based on                        
the Anderson play, was not a big hit, and received disastrous reviews. It was                        
subsequently shorn of 45 minutes, and it was not until its restoration to full                        
length in 1998 and its 2004 appearance on DVD that later audiences could see it                      
as it was intended to be shown.                                                                                                                                                                             
Bergman starred in the Alfred Hitchcock films Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946),                    
and Under Capricorn (1949). Unlike her earlier Hitchcock films, Under Capricorn                    
was a slow-paced costume drama, slow to such a degree that Bergman's reputation                      
and the film's release suffered from this,  in addition to the                                      
gathering adverse publicity over Bergman's affair with Rossellini. 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.                                                                                                                                                           
Between motion pictures, Bergman appeared in the stage plays Liliom, Anna                          
Christie, and Joan of Lorraine. Furthermore, during a press conference in                            
Washington, D.C. for the promotion of Joan of Lorraine, she protested against                        
segregation after seeing it first hand at the theater she was acting in. This                        
led to a lot of publicity and some hate mail.                                                                                                                                                               
Ingrid Bergman 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 during this time                        
that she began a relationship with the famous photographer Robert Capa. She                          
became a smoker after needing to smoke for her role in Arch of Triumph.                                                                                                                                     
Ingrid Bergman, in her first Roberto Rossellini film, Stromboli (1950).                                                                                                                                     
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 and 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 Democrat                      
senator from Colorado, who referred to her as "a horrible example of womanhood                        
and a powerful influence for evil." In addition, there was a floor vote, which                        
resulted in her being made persona non grata. The scandal forced Ingrid Bergman                      
to exile herself to Italy, leaving her husband and daughter in the United States.                    
Her husband, Dr. Petter Lindström, eventually sued for desertion and waged a                      
custody battle for their daughter.                                                                                                                                                                           
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 and                        
model, and Isotta Ingrid Rossellini. Over the next few years, she appeared in                        
several Italian films for Rossellini, including Giovanna d'Arco al rogo (Jeanne                      
d'Arc au bûcher, Joan of Arc at the Stake, 1954), a 1935 dramatic oratorio by                        
Arthur Honegger about Joan of Arc. Their marriage ended in divorce on November 7,

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