Academy Award winning actress Ingrid Bergman was born on
August 29, 1915 in Stockholm, Sweden and died on the same date in 1982.
Educated at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School in Stockholm, she made her film
debut in Branningar (1935). Bergman
established herself as one of Sweden's leading stars during the middle 1930s. American
producer, David O. Selznick was so impressed with her talent that he brought
her to Hollywood. The Hollywood version of Intermezzo
was a great success and Bergman followed this with other popular films such
as Adam had Four Sons (1941), Rage in Heaven (1941), Casablanca (1942), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), The
Bells of St. Mary’s (1945), Spellbound
(1945), Notorious (1946) and Joan of Arc (1948). In August, 1949,
Bergman became the center of a major scandal when it was revealed by her
husband, that she had abandoned their ten year old daughter, to live with Italian
film director, Roberto Rossellini. Politicians became involved in the case and
one senator, Edwin Johnson of Colorado, denounced her behavior as "an
assault upon the institution of marriage" and described her as a
"powerful influence of evil.” Bergman was unable to work in Hollywood for
seven years but made a triumphant return in Anastasia
(1956) for which she won an Academy Award. Other successes were to follow that
included Murder on the Orient Express
(1974). Ingrid Bergman died on August 29, 1982 from breast cancer in London. Most
of her cremated remains were scattered
at sea off the west coast of Sweden and the rest were placed next to her
parents' ashes at the Northern Cemetery, Stockholm, Sweden.
Michael Thomas Barry is the author of Fade to Black: Graveside Memories
of Hollywood Greats, 1927-1950. The book can be purchased from Amazon
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