Here's Looking at You, Ingrid
Known for her radiant, natural looks and impressive emotional range,
Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) remains one of cinema’s most indelible, revered screen presences. Her name has appeared on numerous greatest-actress lists. In her lifetime, she received three Academy Awards and worked with directors such as George Cukor, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini, and Ingmar Bergman. After her personal relationship with Rossellini led to vilification on our puritanical shores, she triumphantly revived her career. (“I’ve gone from saint to whore and back to saint again,” she said.) In conjunction with the current Ingrid Bergman centenary celebration, the actress has received some local spotlight at the Mill Valley Film Festival, and is about to be saluted with a four-day retrospective featuring films from both Hollywood and her native Sweden.
Casablanca (1942), Bergman’s best-known film, leads off the series. Additional titles include Hitchcock’s
Notorious (1946), Rossellini’s
Journey to Italy (1954), and Gustav Molander’s
Intermezzo (1938). Impressed with the latter, David O. Selznick brought Bergman aboard for the remake, launching her career in Hollywood.
— Anita Katz
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