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Ingrid Bergman

            Dutch postcard. Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! means Happy New Year!

Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) was ‘Sweden's illustrious gift to Hollywood’. In the 1940’s the fresh and naturally beautiful actress won three times the Oscar, twice the Emmy, and once the Tony Award for Best Actress. Little known is that before she went to Hollywood she already had a European film career. She was born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German mother. She had had a taste of acting at age 17 when she played an uncredited role of a girl standing in line in the Swedish film Landskamp (1932, Gunnar Skoglund). The next year she was accepted to the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, but she soon decided that stage acting was not for her. During her first summer break, she was hired at a Swedish film studio to work in films full time. Her first film part was in Munkbrogreven (1935, Edvin Adolphson), where she had a speaking part as Elsa Edlund. She soon was to become Sweden's most promising young actress.

The following years Ingrid Bergman made a dozen films in Sweden that established her as a class actress. Among them were Bränningar (1935, Ivar Johansson) and Dollar (1938, Gustaf Mollander). Another film, En kvinnas ansikte (1938, Gustav Molander) would later be remade as A Woman's Face with Joan Crawford. Ingrid also made a film in Germany, Die Vier Gesellen (1938, Carl Froelich). Her breakthrough film was Intermezzo (1936, Gustaf Molander), in which she played a pianist who has a love affair with a celebrated and married violinist, played by Gösta Ekman. Hollywood producer David O. Selznick saw it and sent a representative from MGM to gain the rights to the story and have the actress signed to a contract. Ingrid went to California and starred in MGM's remake Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939, Gregory Ratoff), reprising her original role. The film was a hit and so was Ingrid. Her beauty was unlike anything the movie industry had seen before and her acting was superb. She was under contract to go back to Sweden to film En enda natt (1939, Gustaf Molander) and Juninatten (1940, Per Lindberg). Back in the USA she appeared in three films, all well-received. In 1942 she played in only one film, but Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz) would make her a huge star.

Sources: Wikipedia, Hitchcock.tv and IMDb.

Taken on: December 13, 2008

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Sets appears in: • Happy New Year! • Dutch postcards of the 1930s

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