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Ingrid Bergman Actor

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: Sweden
  • Born: Aug 29, 1915
  • Died: Aug 29, 1982

Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca, a World War II drama co-starring Humphrey Bogart, and as Alicia Huberman in Notorious, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller co-starring Cary Grant.

Before becoming a star in American films, she had been a leading actress in Swedish films. Her first introduction to U.S. audiences came with her starring role in the English-language remake of Intermezzo in 1939. In the United States, she brought to the screen a "Nordic freshness and vitality", along with exceptional beauty and intelligence, and according to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, she quickly became "the ideal of American womanhood" and one of Hollywood's greatest leading actresses.

After her performance in Victor Fleming's remake of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1941, she was noticed by her future producer David O.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough. marriage

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. love & nature

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. happiness & health

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18. being alone & money

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left. time

St. Patrick's Day March 17, 2025

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3 wisdom & wit from John Millington Synge

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28 views from William Butler Yeats

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. 27 other thoughts from Dave Barry

27 other thoughts from Dave Barry

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. 74 more views from Winston Churchill

74 more views from Winston Churchill