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Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 29, 1915. Her mother died when she was only 2 and her father died when she was 12. She went then to live with an elderly uncle.
At 18, after school graduation, the lonely and shy girl decided to become an actress. In 1934 she debuted in the Swedish film Munkbrogreven. Three years later she married Dr. Peter Lindstrom and in 1938 she gave birth to a daughter, Friedel Pia. In May, 1939, she arrived in New York to do a remake of Intermezzo. The beginning of WWII in Europe urged her and her family to return to America in 1940. In 1942 came out Casablanca and the picture made her a star of the first rank. Her acting in the next film For Whom the Bells Tolls (1943) won her an Academic Award nomination. In late 1943 she began working on Gaslight, which won her the 1944 Academy Award.
She returned to Europe after the scandalous publicity surrounding her affair with italian director Roberto Rosselini during the filming of Stromboli (1950). In the same month the film was released she gave birth to a boy, Robertino. A week after her son was born she divorced Dr. Lindstrom and married Rosselini in Mexico.
In June, 1952, she gave birth to the twin daughters Isabella and Isotta. From 1951 to 1955 she and her husband did a series of films that were badly received. Tired and convinced that she would never make a succesfull film with Rosselini, she returned to Hollywood and triumphed in Anastasia (1956), for which she received another Oscar.
In 1957 she divorced Rosselini and the next year she got married to Lars Schmidt, a theatrical entrepreneur from a wealthy swedish shipping family. She received a third Oscar for her role in Murder of the Orient Express (1974).
By 1975 she got divorced again. In 1978 she starred Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata. In the late 1970s she first discovered the symptoms of cancer and had undergone a mastectomy. Her last role was in the television film A Woman Called Golda (1981). For it, she won (posthumously) television's Emmy Award as outstanding actress in a mini-series. She died in London, on August 29, 1982, after having a small birthday party with a few friends.
"I was informed that you were the most beautiful woman ever to come to Casablanca. That is a gross understatement." -Captain Renault (Claude Rains) to Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), Casablanca (1942)
Casablanca (1942) is an American romance film produced by Warner Bros.-First National Pictures, set in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca during World War II. The film was directed by Michael Curtiz and stars Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine and Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund. It focuses on Rick's conflict between, in the words of one character, love and virtue: he must choose between his love for Ilsa and doing the right thing, helping her and her Resistance leader husband escape from Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis.
Although it was an A-list movie, with established stars and first-rate writers, no one involved with its production expected Casablanca to be anything out of the ordinary;[1] it was just one of dozens of pictures being churned out by Hollywood every year. The film was a solid, if unspectacular, success in its initial release, taking advantage of the publicity from the Allied invasion of North Africa. Despite a changing assortment of screenwriters frantically adapting an unstaged play to keep barely ahead of production, and Bogart attempting his first romantic lead role, Casablanca won three Academy Awards in 1943, including Best Picture. The characters, quotations, and music have become iconic, and Casablanca has grown in popularity as time has gone by. It now consistently ranks near the top of lists of the greatest films of all time.
From wikipedia: Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990) was a Swedish-born actress during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age.
Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1955 Honorary Oscar "for her unforgettable screen performances" and in 1999 was ranked as the fifth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute
Early life Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson in Stockholm, Sweden, the youngest of three children of Karl Alfred Gustafsson (1871–1920) and Anna Lovisa Johansson (1872–1944).Garbo's older sister and brother were Alva and Sven.
Becoming an actress When Garbo was 14 years old, her father, to whom she was extremely close, died. She was forced to leave school and go to work. Her first job was as a soap lather-girl in a barbershop. She states in the book Garbo On Garbo (p. 33) that her relationship with her mother was not strained.
She then became a clerk at the department store PUB in Stockholm, where she would also model for newspaper advertisements. Her first motion picture aspirations came when she appeared in two short film advertisements (the first for the department store where she worked). They were eventually seen by comedy director Erik Arthur Petschler and he gave her a part in his upcoming film Peter The Tramp in 1922.
From 1922 to 1924, she studied at the prestigious Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. While there, she met director Mauritz Stiller. He trained her in cinema acting technique, gave her the stage name "Greta Garbo", and cast her in a major role in the silent film Gösta Berlings Saga (English: The Story of Gösta Berling) in 1924, a dramatization of the famous novel by [Nobel Prize for Literature] Nobel Laureate, Selma Lagerlöf. She starred opposite Swedish film actor Lars Hanson and then appeared in the German film Die Freudlose Gasse - The Joyless Street.
She and Stiller were brought to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Louis B. Mayer when Gösta Berlings Saga caught his attention. On viewing the film, Mayer was impressed with Stiller's direction, but was much more taken with Garbo's acting and screen presence. According to Mayer's daughter, Irene, with whom he screened the film, it was the gentle feeling and expression that emanated from her eyes which so impressed her father. Unfortunately, her relationship with Stiller came to an end as her fame grew and he struggled in the studio system. He was fired by MGM and returned to Sweden in 1928, where he died soon after.
"Smile" is a pop song, originally used in the soundtrack for the 1936 Charlie Chaplin movie Modern Times. Chaplin composed the music, the words were written by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons. In the lyrics, the singer is telling the listener to cheer up and that there is always a bright tomorrow, just as long as they smile.
Song by Charlie Chaplin
Writer: - John Turner - Geoffrey Parsons
Composer: Charlie Chaplin
Cover versions:
Nat King Cole, Michael Bolton, The Lettermen, Eric Clapton, Betty Everett and Jerry Butler, Holly Cole, Elvis Costello, Lyle Lovett, Julia Migenes, Michael Jackson, Michael Bublé, Diana Ross, Maria Friedman, Barbra Streisand, Petula Clark, Westlife, Djavan, Sun Ra, Robert Downey Jr.,Ray Quinn, Tony Bennett, and Jimmy Durante
Lyrics: Smile though your heart is aching Smile even though it's breaking When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by If you smile through your fear and sorrow Smile and maybe tomorrow You'll see the sun come shining through for you
Light up your face with gladness Hide every trace of sadness Although a tear may be ever so near That's the time you must keep on trying Smile, what's the use of crying? You'll find that life is still worthwhile If you just smile
That's the time you must keep on trying Smile, what's the use of crying? You'll find that life is still worthwhile If you just smile
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