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BiographySwedish-German actress, Ingrid Bergman ranked #4 female movie star legend in the history of American cinema by The American Film Institute, was born on in Stockholm, to a Swedish father, Justus Samuel Bergman, and a German mother, Friedel Adler. After school graduation, the lonely and shy girl decided to become an actress. In 1934 she debuted in the Swedish film Munkbrogreven (1935). She soon rose to stardom and by 1936 was Sweden's leading film star. In May 1939 she arrived in New York to do a remake of Intermezzo (A Love Story). In Casablanca (1942) premiered and made her a star of the first rank. Her acting in her next film, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), won her an Academy Award nomination. In 1943 she began working on Gaslight (1944), which won her the 1944 Academy Award. She followed that film with such classics as Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) with Gregory Peck and Notorious (1946) with Cary Grant. She returned to Europe after her affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini. From 1951 to 1955 she and her husband did a series of films that were ahead of their time but were generally not received well. Tired and convinced that she would never make a successful film with Rosselini, she returned to Hollywood and triumphed in Anastasia (1956), for which she received another Oscar. She received a third Academy Awards for her role in Murder on the Orient Express (1974). She and Roberto Rossellini made 6 movies together. In 1960 she became the third performer to win the Triple Crown of Acting. In 1978 she starred in Ingmar Bergman's Höstsonaten (1978), probably her best film from an artistic standpoint. Her last role was in the television film A Woman Called Golda (1982). She died in London on August 30, 1982, the day after having a small birthday party with a few friends.
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MarriagesDr. Petter Aron Lindström (1937 - 1950; divorced) - 1 child: Pia Lindström (born 1938) Roberto Rossellini (1950 - 1957; divorced) - 3 children: Roberto Ingmar Rosselini (1950); twin girls Isabella Rossellini and Isotta Rossellini, (1952) Lars Schmidt (1958 - 1975; divorced) Quotes"I've gone from saint to whore and back to saint again, all in one lifetime." "I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say." "I don't regret a thing I've done. I only regret the things I didn't do." "Happiness is good health and a bad memory." "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." Filmography1935 "Munkbrogreven" as Elsa Edlund 1935 "Bränningar" as Karin Ingman 1935 "Swedenhielms" as Astrid 1936 "Intermezzo" as Anita Hoffman 1938 "Dollar" as Julia Balzar 1938 "Die vier Gesellen" as Marianne Kruge 1938 "En kvinnas ansikte" as Anna Holm 1939 "En enda natt" as Eva Beckman 1939 "Intermezzo: A Love Story" as Anita Hoffman 1940 "Juninatten" as Kerstin Norbäc 1941 "Adam Had Four Sons" as Emilie Gallatin 1941 "Rage in Heaven" as Stella Bergen 1941 "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" as Ivy Peterson 1942 "Casablanca" as Ilsa Lund 1943 "For Whom the Bell Tolls" as María 1944 "Gaslight" as Paula Alquist 1945 "Spellbound" as Dr. Constance Petersen 1945 "Saratoga Trunk" as Clio Dulaine 1945 "The Bells of St. Mary's" as Sister Mary Benedict 1946 "Notorious" as Alicia Huberman 1948 "Arch of Triumph" as Joan Madou 1948 "Joan of Arc" as Joan of Arc 1949 "Under Capricorn" as Lady Henrietta Flusky 1950 "Stromboli" as Karin 1952 "Europa '51" as Irene Girard 1954 "Viaggio in Italia" as Katherine Joyce 1954 "La paura" as Irene Wagner 1954 "Giovanna d'Arco al rogo" as Joan of Arc 1956 "Elena et les hommes" as Elena Sokorowska 1956 "Anastasia" as Anna Koreff Anastasia 1958 "Indiscreet" as Anna Kalman 1958 "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" as Gladys Aylward 1961 "Goodbye Again" as Paula Tessier 1963 "I Hedda Gableras" as Hedda Gabler 1964 "The Visit" as Karla Zachanassian 1964 "The Yellow Rolls-Royce" as Gerda Millett 1967 "Stimulantia" as Mathilde Hartman 1969 "Cactus Flower" as Stephanie Dickinson 1970 "A Walk in the Spring Rain" as Libby Meredith 1973 "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" as Mrs. Frankweiler 1974 "Murder on the Orient Express" as Greta 1976 "A Matter of Time" as Contessa Sanziani 1978 "Höstsonaten" as Charlotte Andergast 1982 "A Woman Called Golda" as Golda Meir |
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RelationshipsHer mother died when she was only 3 years old and her father died when she was 13. She and her third husband, Lars Schmidt, spent 20 years living on the island of Dannholmen, off the coast of Sweden. |
SalaryA Matter of Time (1976) $250,000 ; Murder on the Orient Express (1974) $100,000 ; Cactus Flower (1969) $800,000 ; The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) $275,000 ; Indiscreet (1958) $75,000.00 + 10% of gross profits above $4,000,000 ; Anastasia (1956) $250,000 ; Stromboli (1950) $175,000 plus 40% of net profits; Joan of Arc (1948) $245,000 ; Arch of Triumph (1948) $175,000 + 25% of net profits; Gaslight (1944) $75,156 ; For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) $31,770 ; Casablanca (1942) $25,000 ; Rage in Heaven (1941) $34,000 ; Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939) $20,000 ; Munkbrogreven (1935) SEK 1,000 |
Awards and nominationsBergman was only the second actress to win three Academy Awards for acting: two for Best Actress, and one for Best Supporting Actress. She is tied for second place of Oscars won, with Jack Nicholson, Walter Brennan, Meryl Streep, and Daniel Day-Lewis. Bergman won the inaugural Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Joan of Arc in Joan of Lorraine. TriviaRanked #4 woman in the AFI's "The 50 greatest american screen legends" Her luck was as phenomenal as her talent. In New York City, a Swedish couple praised a film of hers to their son, an elevator operator in the apartment building where one of film producer David O. Selznick's young talent scouts lived. Six months later, Ingrid was on her way to Hollywood. "I owe my whole career to that elevator boy", she would say laughingly. She had a reputation as a tough negotiator. David O. Selznick said of her, "Her angelic nature is not above being tarnished by matters of mere money". During the making of Casablanca (1942), Humphrey Bogart's wife Mayo Methot continually accused him of having an affair with Bergman, often confronting him in his dressing room before a shot. Bogart would come onto the set in a rage. Her former French estate was up for sale for $3 million. The country compound, comprising five buildings on 18.5 acres in the pastoral town of Choisille, is located 30 minutes from the center of Paris. The property includes 10 bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a greenhouse, a 55-foot indoor-outdoor pool and a small barn. At Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, there's a special area at the museum devoted strictly to Casablanca (1942). That includes Humphrey Bogart's and her clothes from the film, the film's script, its costumes, and even the small piano on which Sam "played it again" for Rick and Ilsa. Was a good friend of Ernest Hemingway, whom she called "papa" He, in turn, called her "daughter". |
Ingrid Bergman with Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1942)
Bergman with Charles Boyer in Gaslight (1944)
Ingrid Bergman with Gregory Peck in Spellbound (1945)
Bergman with Cary Grant in Notorious (1946)
Ingrid Bergman with Yul Brynner in Anastasia (1956)
Bergman with Walter Matthau Cactus Flower (1969)
Ingrid Bergman with Roberto Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman with Lars Schmidt (married 1958 - 1975; divorced)
Pia Lindstrom , Isotta Rossellini and Isabella Rossellini
