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Ingrid Bergman was born 90 years ago
Ingrid Bergman lived exactly sixty-seven years and died exactly on her birthday, August 29, 1982. She only appeared once in the film of her great compatriot and namesake Ingmar (in “Autumn Sonata”), but, perhaps, she glorified Swedish cinema no less than he. Ingrid made her film debut in 1934, starting in her homeland in the films of Gustaf Mulander, mainly social dramas, where she played (according to the Russian Film Dictionary), “girls from wealthy families, painfully experiencing the atmosphere of philistinism, the emptiness of their own. life." These films are listed in considerable detail in the hefty volume, but there is no hint of the most important role, which made Ingrid Bergman an international star and one of the most significant actresses of the golden age of Hollywood. We are talking, of course, about Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, perhaps the most famous film of all time, a heartfelt and timeless story of lost love, in which Bergman's partner was the inimitable Humphrey Bogart. They were credited with an affair, but even if nothing happened between them, then “own. The actress's life cannot be called empty - it is no coincidence that her autobiography, My Life, published a quarter of a century ago, became a bestseller.Ingrid, a tall beauty who ended the Hollywood reign of short starlets, was the wife of Roberto Rossellini (whom she starred in six films), became the mother of Isabella Rossellini and - briefly - the stepmother of Martin Scorsese, was friends with Hemingway (whom she called "Daddy") and Cary Grant, starred with Cukor and Hitchcock (and her affair with photographer Robert Capa inspired Hitch to make the classic Rear Window). She played Ivy in Dr. Jekyll and Mary in For Whom the Bell Tolls, Anna Kalman and Princess Anastasia, Golda Meir and Joan of Arc three times. She was recognized in the early seventies as the best actress of the sound era and awarded the highest regalia of the film world. She was nominated for an Oscar seven times and for the first time in history became a three-time winner of the highest American film award - for "Gaslight", "Anastasia" and "Murder on the Orient Express", and in addition there were two Emmys, an honorary Cesar, star on Hollywood Boulevard and much more.
But in addition to the awards, Ingrid Bergman was given her due on the other side of the screen. An incredibly beautiful variety of roses and one of the most beautiful and largest Ferrari models were named in her honor, and in Sweden, not far from the place where her ashes were scattered according to her will, there is a monument to the actress. Country singer Woody Guthrie was going to record a song in her honor, which was called “Ingrid Bergman,” but did not have time to do it (Billy Bragg sang this composition for him a little later), and the caustic chansonnier Tom Lehrer, when he needed to remember in his next song, some 100% undiscussed movie star was proposed to be cast by Bergman in a film about a love triangle in the role of the hypotenuse. But still, the main and, perhaps, the only song with which Ingrid is forever associated will remain “Times Pass” by Herman Hupfeld, which Ilse begged to perform in “Casablanca,” her most important film, ignored by the “Film Dictionary”: “Play it again , Sam, for old times sake. I’ll remind you... Da-di-da-di-da-dam...da-di-da-di-da-dam... Sing, Sam.”