Actress Ingrid Bergman dies on her birthday
On August 29 1982 the Swedish-born actress and three-time Academy Award winner Ingrid Bergman dies of cancer in London on her 67th birthday.Bergman who was best known for her role as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca created an international scandal in 1950 when she had a son with the Italian director Roberto Rossellini to whom she was not married at the time.Bergman who was born on August 29 1915 studied acting at Stockholms Royal Dramatic Theatre and became a film star in Sweden before making her first Hollywood movie David O.Selznicks Intermezzo A Love Story (1939).
In 1942 Bergman co-starred in Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart who uttered the famous line to her Heres looking at you kid.She received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for 1943s For Whom the Bell Tolls which was followed by a win in the same category for 1944s Gaslight.She was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar again for 1945s The Bells of St.
Marys and 1948s Joan of Arc.Bergman worked with director Alfred Hitchcock on Spellbound (1945) Notorious (1946) and Under Capricorn (1949).In 1949 Bergman began a romance with Roberto Rossellini when he directed her in Stromboli (1950).When the actress who at the time was married to a Swedish physician with whom she had a daughter became pregnant with Rossellinis child it created a huge scandal.
Bergman was even reprimanded on the floor of the U.S.Senate.The couple whose son was born in February 1950 married in May of that same year.
In 1952 Bergman gave birth to twin daughters one of them Isabella Rossellini later became a noted actress in her own right.Pia Lindstrom Bergmans daughter from her first marriage also had an acting career.Bergman and Roberto Rossellini divorced in 1957.Bergman won another Best Actress Academy Award for 1956s Anastasia the actor Cary Grant accepted the award on her behalf.
Bergman did not return publicly to Hollywood until the 1958 Oscars at which she was a presenter.She won her third Academy Award in the category of Best Actress in a Supporting Role for 1974s Murder on the Orient Express.Her final Oscar nomination in the Best Actress category was for 1978s Autumn Sonata which was helmed by famed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman (to whom she was not related).
