What are the "must-have" films of Ingrid Bergman?
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What are the "must-have" films of Ingrid Bergman?
Gaslight is a fav w/Charles Boyer. Also have Notorious and Adam Had Four Sons. Intermezzo is on order along with some others. I must join her fan club!
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Autumn Sonata (1978), directed by Ingmar Bergman - Ingrid Bergman's last movie. The cast also includes Liv Ullman, Gunnar Björnstrand, and Erland Josephson. Ingrid Bergman portrays a concert pianist, Liv Ullman her daughter. Not light entertainment, but a wonderful film. And you hear la Bergman speaking her native language.
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I'll tell you one to avoid--Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, in which she is laughably miscast.
I thought her late performance as Golda Meir was as good as anything she ever did.
I thought her late performance as Golda Meir was as good as anything she ever did.
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All of them. But I'll start with "Suspicion."
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Anastasia, hands down.
I also enjoyed some of her lighter work, like The Bells of St. Mary's and Cactus Flower. It was a pleasure watching her among the superb ensemble cast of Murder On The Orient Express .
An aside ... her daughter Isabella Rossellini was in a wonderful 1998 film called "Left Luggage" (well worth seeing) ... she wore a head covering, and I gasped ... it was like looking at her mother's beautiful face.
I also enjoyed some of her lighter work, like The Bells of St. Mary's and Cactus Flower. It was a pleasure watching her among the superb ensemble cast of Murder On The Orient Express .
An aside ... her daughter Isabella Rossellini was in a wonderful 1998 film called "Left Luggage" (well worth seeing) ... she wore a head covering, and I gasped ... it was like looking at her mother's beautiful face.
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After all these years, to finally catch you (not that I've been trying). If she's in that fine movie, it's a mighty small role.Ralph wrote:All of them. But I'll start with "Suspicion."
Did you mean perhaps "Spellbound"?
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Notorious
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Re: What are the "must-have" films of Ingrid Bergman?
When I was living in Sweden I saw some quite interesting films at a film festival. One of them was Branningar, which came out in 1935. Ingrid Bergman plays the part of a young girl living on an island. During a violent storm with the passionate music of Tchaikowsky playing in the background, a visiting priest succumbs to temptation. Overcome with remorse, he runs out into the night, grasps a flagpole and is struck by lighting. This causes him to lose his memory. A few years later he revisits the island and wonders who is the father of the girl's illegitimate child. Bergman gives him a wonderful, incredulous look at that point. I wouldn't rate this as indispensable Bergman, but it did give a fascinating glimpse of the twenty year old actress.
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It has to 'Casablanca' above all others. What a wonderful and beautiful actress. Bergman was one of a kind!
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Ingrid Bergman's autobiography, Ingrid Bergman: My Story by Ingrid Bergman and Alan Burgess, published by Delacorte Press in New York in 1980 arrived a few days ago. I was able to find a great used copy. Leafing through, it looks like a great read.
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Me too, although IMO somehow Colleen Dewhurst was more believable as Meir. Notorious and Gaslight are also must haves.jbuck919 wrote:I thought her late performance as Golda Meir was as good as anything she ever did.
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