Ingrid Bergman

Born: 1915-08-29

Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films, television movies, and plays. With a career spanning five decades, she is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history. According to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, upon her arrival in the U.S. Bergman quickly became "the ideal of American womanhood" and a contender for Hollywood's greatest leading actress. David O. Selznick once called her "the most completely conscientious actress" he had ever worked with. In 1999, the American Film Institute recognised Bergman as the fourth greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema. She won numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Award and a Volpi Cup. She is one of only four actresses to have received at least three acting Academy Awards (only Katharine Hepburn has four). Born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German mother, Bergman began her acting career in Swedish and German films. Her introduction to the U.S. audience came in the English-language remake of Intermezzo (1939). Known for her naturally luminous beauty, she starred in Casablanca (1942) as Ilsa Lund, her most famous role, opposite Humphrey Bogart. Bergman's notable performances in the 1940s include the dramas For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight (1944), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), and Joan of Arc (1948), all of which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress; she won for Gaslight. She made three films with Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound (1945), with Gregory Peck, Notorious (1946), opposite Cary Grant and Under Capricorn (1949), alongside Joseph Cotten. In 1950, she starred in Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli, released after the revelation she was having an affair with Rossellini; that and her pregnancy prior to their marriage created a scandal in the U.S. that prompted her to remain in Europe for several years. During this time she starred in Rossellini's Europa '51 and Journey to Italy (1954), now critically acclaimed, the former of which won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She had a successful return to working for a Hollywood studio in Anastasia (1956), winning her second Academy Award for Best Actress. Soon after, she co-starred with Grant in the romance Indiscreet (1958). In 1969, she starred in the acclaimed and highly successful film Cactus Flower. In later years, Bergman won her third Academy Award, this one for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Murder on the Orient Express (1974). In 1978, she starred in Ingmar Bergman's (no relation) Swedish Autumn Sonata receiving her sixth Best Actress nomination. Bergman spoke five languages – Swedish, English, German, Italian and French – and acted in each. In her final role, she portrayed the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the television miniseries A Woman Called Golda (1982) for which she posthumously won her second Emmy Award for Best Actress. In 1974, Bergman discovered she was suffering from breast cancer but continued to work until shortly before her death on her sixty-seventh birthday.


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Casablanca

as Ilsa Lund
Released: 1943-01-15

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover,...

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Notorious

as Alicia Huberman
Released: 1946-08-21

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia...

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Murder on the Orient Express

as Greta Ohlson
Released: 1974-11-22

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve...

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Spellbound

as Dr. Constance Petersen
Released: 1945-11-08

When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital...

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Joan of Arc

as Joan of Arc
Released: 1948-12-22

In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War...

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

as Maria
Released: 1943-07-12

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil...

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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

as (in "Notorious") (archive footage)
Released: 1982-05-21

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no...

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Gaslight

as Paula Alquist
Released: 1944-05-04

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

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Stromboli

as Karin
Released: 1950-02-15

After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli...

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Under Capricorn

as Lady Henrietta Flusky
Released: 1949-09-08

A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister...

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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

as Gladys Aylward
Released: 1958-12-11

All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not...

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Goodbye Again

as Paula Tessier
Released: 1961-05-23

Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier resists the advances of Philip Van der Besh, the...

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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2015-08-27

A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman...

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Autumn Sonata

as Charlotte Andergast
Released: 1978-10-08

After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter...

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Cactus Flower

as Stephanie Dickinson
Released: 1969-12-16

Distraught when her middle-aged lover breaks a date with her, 21-year-old Toni Simmons attempts...

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The Visit

as Karla Zachanassian
Released: 1964-05-06

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her,...

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Journey to Italy

as Katherine Joyce
Released: 1954-09-07

This deceptively simple tale of a bored English couple travelling to Italy to find a buyer for a...

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That's Entertainment! III

as (archive footage)
Released: 1994-07-01

Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of...

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Ivy Peterson
Released: 1941-08-12

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil...

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Anastasia

as Anna Koreff / Anastasia
Released: 1956-12-13

Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming...

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The Love Goddesses

as (archive footage)
Released: 1965-03-03

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the...

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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

as Mrs. Frankweiler
Released: 1973-06-06

A precocious young girl and her younger brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan...

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Indiscreet

as Anna Kalman
Released: 1958-07-16

Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams....

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Rage in Heaven

as Stella Bergen
Released: 1941-03-07

A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.

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The Bells of St. Mary's

as Sister Mary Benedict
Released: 1945-12-27

Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation....

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Smash His Camera

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2010-07-30

A film centering on the life and work of Ron Galella that examines the nature and effect of...

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Europe '51

as Irene Girard
Released: 1952-12-04

A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a...

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Becoming Cary Grant

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2017-05-23

For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From...

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The Yellow Rolls-Royce

as Gerda Millett
Released: 1964-12-31

One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys...

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And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2014-02-01

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND...

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Hollywood: The Dream Factory

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1972-01-10

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading...

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Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

as Dr. Constance Petersen (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1995-08-24

After escaping Russia's communist revolution, Léon Theremin travels to New York, where he...

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The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1996-03-17

A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led...

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A Woman Called Golda

as Golda Meir
Released: 1982-04-26

The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister...

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Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1961-12-31

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O....

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The Best of Bob Hope: 50 years of Laughter Volume 1

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2001-02-22

This Bob Hope Special called “Highlights of a Quarter Century” begins his 26th year with NBC in...

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Elena and Her Men

as Elena Sokorowska
Released: 1956-09-12

Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France,...

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Fear

as Irène Wagner
Released: 1954-11-05

Irene Wagner, the wife of the prominent German scientist Professor Albert Wagner, had been...

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Hitler's Hollywood

as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Released: 2017-02-23

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis...

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Glorious Technicolor

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1998-12-07

The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.

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Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1988-06-05

A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and...

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Intermezzo: A Love Story

as Anita Hoffman
Released: 1939-10-06

A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites...

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Arch of Triumph

as Joan Madou
Released: 1948-02-17

In the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black...

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Swedenhielms

as Astrid
Released: 1935-04-08

The Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf...

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Minns ni?

as uncredited
Released: 1993-10-24

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about...

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Stjärnbilder

as Self
Released: 1995-09-10

A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and...

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Federico Fellini's Autobiography

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2000-09-05

Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most...

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Ingrid Bergman Remembered

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1996-04-06

Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time,...

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Hedda Gabler

as Hedda Gabler
Released: 1962-12-28

Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic...

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We, the Women

as Ingrid (segment "Ingrid Bergman")
Released: 1953-10-27

Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.

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Stimulantia

as Mathilde Hartman
Released: 1967-03-28

Stimulantia is a 1967 Swedish anthology film comprising eight episodes by eight different...

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A Matter of Time

as Contessa Sanziani
Released: 1976-10-07

During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her...

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Saratoga Trunk

as Clio Dulaine
Released: 1945-11-21

An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join...

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The Best of Bob Hope: 50 years of Laughter Volume 2

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2001-02-22

This Bob Hope Special called “Highlights of a Quarter Century” begins his 26th year with NBC in...

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Anthony Quinn: An Original

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1990-09-10

Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an...

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Adam Had Four Sons

as Emilie Gallatin
Released: 1941-03-27

Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly....

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Bogart: The Untold Story

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1997-01-05

Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of...

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Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

as Self (segment "Salute to Orson Welles") (archive footage)
Released: 1995-10-08

Orson Welles' archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from...

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Auguste

as Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
Released: 1961-10-24

Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in...

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Breakdowns of 1944

as Self
Released: 1944-12-31

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1944.

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Gregory Peck: His Own Man

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1988-03-08

Talented and enduring Academy Award-winning star, Gregory Peck, tells how it was when studios...

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Intermezzo

as Anita Hoffman
Released: 1936-11-16

The world famous violinist Holger Brandt comes back to his family after a tour. He and his wife...

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Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2009-06-29

Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film "Notorious."

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The Making of 'Autumn Sonata'

as Self
Released: 1978-10-18

On-set documentary of the making of Ingmar Bergman's 1977 film Autumn Sonata starring Ingrid...

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A Woman's Face

as Anna Holm
Released: 1938-10-31

A cynical woman with a disfigured face—a hardened criminal—gets an opportunity to change her...

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The Rossellinis

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2020-09-12

A laid-back journey in search of one of the world’s most fascinating families, observed and...

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Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2012-03-27

The behind-the-scenes story of how "Casablanca" became an American film classic.

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The Count of the Old Town

as Elsa Edlund
Released: 1935-01-21

A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with...

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Ocean Breakers

as Karin Ingman
Released: 1935-02-17

Daniel has been forced by his father to become a priest. After graduating, he comes to a parish...

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Julie Andrews Forever

as Self (Archive Footage)
Released: 2019-12-25

Julie Andrews starred in Hollywood productions that have become iconic movies, winning an Oscar...

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A Walk in the Spring Rain

as Libby Meredith
Released: 1970-06-17

A sophisticated, middle-aged grandmother, wed to a New York law professor, falls in love with a...

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You Must Remember This: A Tribute to 'Casablanca'

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1992-08-26

A documentary about the making of the classic film "Casablanca."

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Dollar

as Julia Balzar
Released: 1938-09-05

Ludvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class...

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Santa Brigida

as Herself
Released: 1951-01-01

Approximately ten minutes of 35mm footage survives at the Svenska Filmminstitutet from a...

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June Night

as Kerstin Norbäck
Released: 1940-04-03

A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose...

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The Human Voice

as A Woman
Released: 1966-08-12

A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry...

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Joan of Arc at the Stake

as Joan of Arc
Released: 1954-12-20

Joan of Arc is being burned alive for heresy. In a kind of dream state, she departs from her...

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Walpurgis Night

as Lena Bergström
Released: 1935-10-23

Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She...

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Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2006-05-27

Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".

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Yul Brynner, the Magnificent

as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Released: 2020-12-02

The incredible story of the mythical Russian-American actor and filmmaker Yul Brynner (1920-85),...

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As Time Goes By: The Children Remember

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2003-08-06

"The Children Remember" is a look at "Casablanca" with Ingrid Bergman's daughter Pia Lindstrom...

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National match

as Girl Waiting in Line (uncredited)
Released: 1932-03-29

Erik Andersson marries Brita Blomstedt. During the wedding party he drinks alcohol which he is...

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On the Sunny Side

as Eva Bergh
Released: 1936-02-03

Eva Bergh works as a bank clerk, but dreams of becoming an artist. At a party she meets the rich...

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Langlois

as Self
Released: 1970-09-19

Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.

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Only One Night

as Eva Beckman
Released: 1939-02-20

Funfair worker Valdemar is unknowingly the illegitimate son of a rich landowner, colonel Von...

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Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali

as Self (Archive Footage)
Released: 2008-10-14

A documentary analyzing the surrealist elements of the film Spellbound, and the work made by...

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The Four Companions

as Marianne Kruge
Released: 1938-10-01

Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist...

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Warner at War

as (archive footage)
Released: 2008-11-11

Warner Bros. uses the movies to prepare the US for war and keep up morale on the home front...

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The War of the Volcanoes

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2012-09-02

In 1948, a fan letter arrived for director Roberto Rossellini from Ingrid Bergman, one of...

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A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family

as Self
Released: 1953-09-24

Commissioned by a Swedish newspaper, this news-reel like short on the life of the famous Swedish...

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Ingrid Bergman, "Intermezzo" Screen Test

as Self
Released: 1939-05-15

Ingrid Bergman's screen test for the film Intermezzo by Gregory Ratoff.

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The Chicken

as Self
Released: 1953-10-22

Ingrid Bergman notices that her roses have been destroyed. At first she suspects it is her dogs...

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Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life

as Clare Lester
Released: 1961-03-20

Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail...

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Ingrid Bergman at the National Film Theatre

as Interviewee
Released: 1981-08-20

An interview with actress Ingrid Bergman at London's National Film Theatre in 1981.

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Startime: The Turn of the Screw

as Governess
Released: 1959-10-20

A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.

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Reflections on 'Gaslight'

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2003-12-14

A documentary on the 1944 film "Gaslight" starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.

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Rossellini Through His Own Eyes

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1993-05-01

Made up almost entirely of archival interviews with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini...

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Ersatz

as Ilsa Lund (archive audio)
Released: 1978-01-01

An animated Plasticine man enacts favourite scenes from Hollywood classics.

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Cat Across the Road

as Woman in mirror
Released: 1937-08-30

An actress is happy when she is finally contacted by a famous director, but the director is more...

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Swedes in America

as Herself
Released: 1943-11-08

1943 documentary with Ingrid Bergman.

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The Trouble With Forgetting

as uncredited
Released: 2024-03-13

To forget about the end of a relationship, a woman fantasizes about an ideal one. Fantasy and...

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Rossellini Under the Volcano

as Karen (archive footage)
Released: 1998-01-01

A documentary about Roberto Rossellini and the making of his 1950 film "Stromboli."

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Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns

as uncredited
Released: 1953-11-12

Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini at a gala held in Sweden in 1953.

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Motion Picture Industry Red Cross War Fund Week Trailer

as Herself
Released: 1945-03-15

Discovered in the Rose Theatre of Port Townsend, Washington, during renovation in the late...

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The Steve Allen Show

as Self - Recipient
First aired: 1956-06-24

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The Steve Allen Show

as Self - appearing on film
First aired: 1956-06-24

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ABC Stage 67

as A Woman
First aired: 1966-09-14

ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety...

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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Dim Dam Dom

as Self
First aired: 1965-03-07

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Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter
First aired: 1956-04-01

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...

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Intimate Portrait

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1993-11-14

Intimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network...

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Bambi Awards

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1948-01-01

The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented...

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Apostrophes

as Self
First aired: 1975-01-10

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and...

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The American Film Institute Salute to ...

as Self
First aired: 1973-04-02

In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a...

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Spécial cinéma

as Self
First aired: 1974-09-25

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Un film et son époque

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2003-05-17

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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Cinépanorama

as Self
First aired: 1956-02-04

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Talking Pictures

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 2013-01-05

A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to...

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Star Life

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1990-08-04

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