Immortal Ingrid
(About.com) - Ingrid Bergman was born in Sweden into a family that would face tragic years during her childhood.
Her mother, Friedel Adler Bergman, passed away when Bergman was two. Left to be raised by her father, Justus Samuel Bergman, who owned a photography shop, Bergman was encouraged in artistic endeavors before a camera by her father. Sadly, he too passed away when Bergman was 12. She went to live with a spinster aunt who died in her arms only months after her father before being raised by an uncle.
After high school, Bergman landed a moment as a film extra in the Swedish film Landskamp (1932), which spurred a dream to star on the big screen. She enrolled in the Royal Dramatic Theater School in Stockholm where she performed in stage plays. Bergman landed her first speaking role in the Swedish film Munkbrogreven (1935). It was after several films and a role in Intermezzo (1936), where Hollywood producer David O. Selznick saw Bergman's performance, that Hollywood would meet the beautiful actress to Hollywood.
Selznick had MGM obtain the rights to the story Intermezzo and signed Bergman to a contract for the film Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939). Audiences fell in love with the beguiling beauty from Sweden – who married Dr. Peter Lindström in 1937 – and both she and the film were huge hits. Bergman delivered a daughter (Pia Lindström) in 1938 and then returned briefly to Sweden to fulfill contracts for films there.
In 1940, Bergman starred in three films including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde followed by the role of Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942) opposite the Humphrey Bogart . While the film became known as a classic, both leads disliked the film and didn't want to do it. In bonus features of the HD DVD Casablanca, Pia Lindström talks very candidly about her mother and says she wasn't interested in Casablanca because she was focused on her next film, For the Whom the Bells Toll (1943) with Gary Cooper.
The focus paid off as Bergman not only landed the role as Maria in the civil war saga, but was nominated for her first Academy Award for Best Actress. Jennifer Jones won the Oscar for The Song of Bernadette. More success came when Bergman won the Oscar for Best Actress in Gaslight (1944) as a woman driven insane by her husband played by Charles Boyer. Bergman was nominated again the next year for The Bells of St. Mary’s with Bing Crosby.
Many directors wished to work with Bergman, and it was Alfred Hitchcock, who was also under contract with Selznick, who won the honor in Spellbound (1945), and Notorious (1946), opposite Cary Grant, which proved to be another hit for the actress, and again later with Hitchcock in Under Capricorn (1949).
Bergman decided to return to Broadway and in 1946 won a Tony Award for Best Actress as Joan of Arc in Joan of Lorraine. She won another Best Actress nomination in the 1948 film version of the play. In 1949 Bergman filmed Stromboli (1950), directed by Roberto Rossellini, with whom Bergman would fall in love and soon marry. Bergman continued to make films in Italy with Rossellini during the 1950s, including the stageplay Joan at the Stake, before returning to Hollywood where she starred in Anastasia (1956) and earned her second Oscar.
Bergman continued her work in the late 1950s with The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) before returning to the stage. In 1975 she earned an Oscar for her role in Murder on the Orient Express (1974). Her final feature film Höstsonaten (Autumn Sonata 1978) with famed director Ingmar Bergman brought Ingrid back to Sweden for her final film and it earned her last Academy-Award nomination. Before her death, an entire new generation would get a glimpse of a true Hollywood star in her incredible performance as Israeli prime minister Golda Meir in A Woman Called Golda (1982).
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Rosa Ingrid Bergman (gardening.mweb.co.za) - Rose named after Ingrid Bergman.
Evergreen/Deciduous: Evergreen
Plant Type: Rose
Flower Colour: Velvet red
Foliage Colour: Green
Best Season: Summer to Autumn
Light : Sun
Attributes: Cut Flower
Height (m): 1.5
Hybrid tea rose. Only a very special rose could honour Ingrid Bergman, and being a red rose, it had to excel. It is most fitting that this rose was raised in Scandinavia by the rose breeding firm of Poulsens Roses which has a century of traditions and experience. "Poulsen" roses are famous for their vigour and general toughness and Ingrid Bergman is no exception. 35 broad and firm petals make up the large, glowing, velvet red blooms which hold their brilliancy in the sun as no other crimson hybrid tea does.
The bushes grow into well branched specimen plants clothed with glossy, deep green leaves which remain untouched by mildew or black spot. New, bronze red shoots appear until deep into Winter, producing their shapely blooms in an abundance comparable to a grandiflora rose.
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