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INGRID BERGMAN Biography
Name: Ingrid Bergman
Born: 29 August 1915 Stockholm, Sweden
Died: 29 August 1982 London, United Kingdom
Ingrid Bergman (August 29, 1915 â€“ 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 LindstrÃ¶m (who
would later become a neurosurgeon). On September 20, 1938, she gave birth to a
daughter, Pia LindstrÃ¶m.
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 LindstrÃ¶m, 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 bÃ»cher, 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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