“I do not regret anything. I would not have lived my life the way I did if I had worried about what people thought.” That was Ingrid Bergman, one of the actresses with more personality in the history of cinema, whose birth is now 100 years old.
Born in Stockholm on August 29, 1915, she was a strong woman and very attached directly to earth, he never lies and always answered with a disarming honesty.
With three seven Oscar nominations, Bergman’s career is an example of versatility and risk, with many complex securities, several masterpieces and some other blur, but it is impossible to summarize in ten jobs. So here is the list of the twelve essential films.
1. Casablanca (1942). It is absolutely the best of his films, but the charm of this love story and the spectacular couple composed with hard Humphrey Bogart made this film one of the cornerstones of cinema. “We’ll always have Paris” became a mythical sentence.
2. Intermezzo (1939). It was his first job in Hollywood after the producer David O. Selznick discovered. Bergman did not speak English, it was very high by the standards of the time (1.75 m) and was a complete unknown, but his performance was superb and naturalness conquered immediately to the public.
3. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). Although Casablanca is what has remained in the memory, his first Oscar nomination came at a rather uneven film, based on a work of Ernest Hemingway, and which gave life amidst a Spanish Civil War in love with Gary Cooper
4. Gaslight (1944). Your deserved first Oscar, for his brilliant portrayal of a dominated and manipulated by her wicked husband (Charles Boyer) trying to drive her crazy woman. One of his most memorable works and popular with the pulse marking a teacher, George Cukor.
5. Spellbound (1945). His first collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock and a film that paired with Gregory Peck in a psychological thriller in height full of unknowns and surprises. Despite its high quality, Bergman was nominated for an Oscar this year for a significantly lower film, The Bells of St. Mary’s.
6. Notorious (1946). A kiss of two and a half minutes as usual were just seconds accounted for almost a scandal in Hollywood, but Hitchcock is much more than that and the chemistry between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman have allowed today remains a masterpiece and the best, no doubt, of the three collaborations between Swedish actress and genius of suspense.
July. Joan of Arc (1948). was his recurring role. He played three times: in 1946 in the theater, in this film by Victor Fleming and again in 1954 on the orders of then her husband, Roberto Rossellini. He was nominated for an Oscar, but is considered the beginning of an era of decline for the actress.
8. Stromboli (1950). First collaboration with Roberto Rossellini, with a scandalous affair that began when the two were married. It is a complex film that has gained weight over the years, but that will always be remembered as the film that brought together one of the most cinematic history couples.
9. Viaggio in Italia (1954). Although most remember Stromboli , this is the best film of its six work with Rossellini. Less and less neorealist classic, was a break for the usual classicism in the roles of the actress. A bright and content analysis of isolation and an example of how Bergman could be different depending on the direction.
10. Anastasia (1956). After several years in Europe and rolling away from the Puritan America, which had rejected his relationship with Rossellini, Bergman returns to the United States with a large production time and does a great job despite the general mediocrity of the film. He was given his second Oscar and produced the expected reconciliation with Hollywood star.
11. Höstsonaten (1978). Another comeback, this Swedish film, from the hand of master teachers, Ingmar Bergman, with whom he had never worked. Heartbreaking and tragic but far less affected than in the great dramas of Hollywood, the actress knew to shape the honesty and simplicity that characterize the Swedish film director. But, inexplicably, was not the Oscar.
12. A Woman Called Golda (1982). had already won her third Oscar (absolutely amazing, one of his most forgettable works, Murder on the Orient Express) and was ill cancer up with his life. With nothing to prove or to lose, the actress gave his last lecture, on television, with the history of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. Golden Globe and Emmy, three weeks after his death was
Source:. EFE
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