Drafting INTERNATIONAL.- A hundred years ago, on this day, was born in Stockholm great Ingrid Bergman, one of the most talented actresses that has given the cinema and a decent life Best Film.
After losing his mother when he was three and his father at 12, Ingrid Bergman was raised first with an aunt, who also died suddenly, and with a guy, until he married at 22 years with the dentist Peter Lindstrom.
An age which was already a respected actress in Sweden for his work in the theater and his training at the prestigious Royal Dramatic Theater School in Stockholm, the same in which years earlier had studied Greta Garbo.
Bergman made his film debut at age 17 in a small role in “Landskamp” but the big boost in his career came with the first of his seven collaborations with director Gustaf Molander .
“Swedenhielms” (1935) and “pa Solsidan” (1936) were the first two films they made together, but it was “Intermezzo” (1936) which was consecrated in his country and that given the opportunity to make the leap to Hollywood.
The actress caught the attention of producer David O’Selznick superpowered who hired her to make a “remake” of the film, which was a tremendous success.
In the next decade he not stopped working and starred in thirteen films, most of which are part of the most important classics of film history, becoming one of the great stars of the time.
One of the most memorable, even though more than 70 years after its premiere have passed, is “Casablanca”, which although not the best film of his career is undoubtedly the most popular.
“Casablanca” was followed by “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (1943), which marked his first Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the Spanish revolutionary Maria, opposite Gary Cooper and “Gaslight” (1944) second nomination and first Oscar.
The following year would opt for an Oscar, although he failed, for its sweet nun in “The Bells of St. Mary’s” (1945).
That same year was his first collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock, one of the leading conductors of his career.
“Spellbound” was the beginning of a collaboration that would continue with the brilliant “Notorious” (1946) next to that would be one of his best friends, Cary Grant, and would close with “Under Capricorn” (1949) was again among middle nominated for an Oscar for “Joan of Arc” (1948) -.
Hitchcock was “an adorable genius” in the words of the actress, who paid a warm tribute in 1979 when he was commissioned to present the award for a career that was awarded the American Film Institute.
” When we were filming ‘Spellbound’ in 1945, I said ‘I do not think I can give that emotion’ and you said to me, ‘Ingrid, pretend’. Hitch is the best advice I have ever given me, “he said amid laughter from the audience.
Together with the wizard of suspense the third director would mark not only his career but also his life, was the Italian Roberto Rossellini.
The actress was “Roma, Città Aperta” (1945) and in 1948 sent a letter to the Italian director who is already part of the legend.
“I’ve seen his films’ Roma, Città Aperta “and” Paisa and I’ve loved. If you need a Swedish actress who speaks English very well, he has not forgotten the German, who is not very understandable in French and Italian only knows how to say ‘ti amo’, I’m ready to go and make a movie with you ” Bergman wrote.
Six films and three children were the result of a relationship that was a huge scandal at the time because both were married and the actress left her husband and daughter -Pia- by Rossellini.
“Stromboli”, “Europe 51″ and “Viaggio in Italia” were the three most outstanding works of this union before the actress returned to Hollywood, first with the film “Anastasia” (1956, fifth nomination and second Oscar) and then in person in 1959 to present the award for best film.
“I’ve gone from saint to whore and holy again, everything in life,” he said the actress with humor after be received with deep ovation.
But his return to Hollywood not resulted in good titles. Even for which he won his third Oscar, “Muder on the Orient Express”. His best movie of your last period was Swedish and with maestro Ingmar Bergman, “Autumn Sonata” (1978).
Behind her, closed his brilliant career with a large television work, from which it was first Minister Golda Meir of Israel. Spent years battling breast cancer that ended his life in London, the day they met 67 years.
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