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Penetanguishene Citizen (1975-1988), 29 Sep 1982, p. 25

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by Terry Dupuis The international screen lost one of its most distinguished actresses recently with the death of Ingrid Bergman. Many tributes and biographical sketches have been written about her in the past month. So I decided instead that I would write a few brief notes about my favourite Ingrid Bergman movies. Heading almost anyone's list of top Bergman movies would be Casablanca, and I can't disagree. It was one of the finest wartime romances to come out of Hollywood; and it also contained a fine balance of suspense, intrigue and solid charac- terizations. It was the only movie Bergman ever made with Humphrey Bogart, but it made screen history. As the wife of a Nazi-fighting patriot played by Paul Henried, Ingrid at 27 was early in her career but at the peak of her photogenic beauty. Prior to Casablanea, Ingrid had been quite memorable in a completely different type of role. In Spencer Tracy's version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Ilyde, she played Ivy the unfortunate streetwalker who was befriended by Dr. Jekyll and then later murdered by Jekyll's alter ego, Mr. Hyde. As a performer, Bergman acted rings around Lana Turner who played the role of Dr. Jekyll's fiancee. One of my favourites of all Ingrid Bergman's performances was in For Whom The Bell Tolls. This adventure romance set in the period of the Spanish Civil War was based on an Ernest Hemingway novel. It turned out to be one of the most distinguished literary filmings of the 1940's. Bergman was teamed for the first time with Gary Cooper as her leading man. She played Maria, a peasant girl who aids Cooper in his assignment to blow up an enemy bridge. Bergman won her first Best Actress nomination in this role, but she lost out that year to Jennifer Jones who won for The Song Of Bernadette. However, Bergman, won the following year on her second nomination. She won the Best Actress trophy for her performance in Gaslight. This Victorian suspense melodrama cast her as a young woman who feared she was losing her mind. As it turned out, it was her husband played by Charles Boyer who was trying to drive her insane. This movie was not directed by Alfred Hitchcock, fut! it was top-drawer suspense just the same. K hee. use they were both suspense thrillers which J Ingrid was lucky in her next two projects, a ----My Favourite Ingrid-- Bergman Movies were directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Both films rank among Hitchcock's best 40's projects, and also rate highly on my list of Ingrid Bergman movies. The first, called Spellbound, teamed Bergman with Gregory Peck: the second one Notorious. teamed her with Cary Grant. These, then, were my favourites among Ingrid Bergman's 1940's period: Casablanca, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Spellbound, Notorious and Gaslight. During the early part of the 1950's her career went into eclipse, mainly as a result of her highly publicized relationship with an Italian film director. But she returned to Hollywood in triumph in 1956 at the age of 40, when she collected her second Osear for her performance as Anastasia. This was another peak in her long career. Another distinguished Bergman movie followed two years later. In The Inn Of The Sixth Hap- piness, she portrayed Gladys Aylward, a English domestic who became a dedicated missionary in China. As Ingrid Bergman moved into middle age she easily accomodated herself to character roles. She won her third Academy Award in 1975 in a role as one of the chief suspects in the Agatha Christie murder mystery, Murder On The Orient Express. Like Henry Fonda, Ingrid Bergman ended her career with one of her finest performances. She gave an uncanny and in-depth impersonation of Golda Meir in a television biography. 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