Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman. Ingrid Bergman movies on TCM: From the artificial ‘Gaslight’ to the magisterial ‘Autumn Sonata’ Two days ago, Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” series highlighted the film career of Greta Garbo. Today, Aug. 28, ’15, TCM is…

Anna Magnani in Rome, Open City, known in the U.S. as Open City. ‘Rome, Open City’ returns: 4K digital restoration of Roberto Rossellini masterpiece at London’s BFI Southbank A restored digital print of Roberto Rossellini’s best-known film, Rome, Open City…

Oscar curse? Two-time Best Actress Luise Rainer remembers In Mason Wiley and Damien Bona’s Inside Oscar, Luise Rainer is quoted as saying the following about winning back-to-back Best Actress Academy Awards for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth…

Casablanca with Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. About three years ago, I finally gave in to watch Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) for the first time. I had hesitated because of the five- and ten-minute snippets of the…

“Apostle of degradation” Ingrid Bergman and co-star Bing Crosby in Leo McCarey’s The Bells St. Mary’s Natalie Portman made history last Sunday as the first unmarried, pregnant individual to win the Best Actress Oscar for her performance as an unbalanced…

Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Bergman, Autumn Sonata Ingrid Bergman’s best on-screen performance, as Liv Ullmann’s painfully self-centered mother in Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata, can be appreciated on Friday, August 6 – Ingrid Bergman Day – on Turner Classic Movies. TCM’s “Summer…

Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Intermezzo. Ingrid Bergman movies on Monday, Aug. 25, on Turner Classic Movies: Before being vilified, accursed, and banished from Hollywood because of her adulterous affair with Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman was one of the biggest box…

Hedy Lamarr biography: Discussing Charles Boyer’s romantic interest in in Algiers. See previous post: Hedy Lamarr: Q&A with Author Patrick Agan: Part II Is it true that Hedy Lamarr refused the lead roles in Casablanca, Gaslight, and Saratoga Trunk? If…

Isabella Rossellini as her mother, Ingrid Bergman, in ‘My Dad Is 100 Years Old’ Guy Maddin’s 2005 16-minute short film My Dad Is 100 Years Old, in which Isabella Rossellini pays “a unique personal tribute to her father, director Roberto Rossellini, in observance of…

Gaslighting abuse: Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in Gaslight. Though remembered for his female-centered dramas and comedies (Camille, The Women, A Woman’s Face, etc.) and for being what’s derisively called a “woman’s director” (Constance Bennett, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, et al.), George…

Ingmar Bergman films: Autumn Sonata with Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann. American Cinematheque screening Ingmar Bergman films ‘Autumn Sonata’ & ‘Cries & Whispers’ A number of Ingmar Bergman movies, among them the Ingrid Bergman / Liv Ullmann mother-daughter drama Autumn…