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...preparing a piece about Bergman and Saraband for the magazine, I was blessed to be able to speak with Ullmann. At 66, the Norwegian actress could comfortably retire after 40 years as an international star and the muse of Bergman in one of his most fertile filmmaking periods. Yet she has equaled her acting work by directing: four features, including two Bergman scripts, Private Confessions (1976) and Faithless (2000). A few Ullmann quotes illuminated the TIME story. Here is the meat of the interview, in which she speaks warmly about her life and career with Bergman and frankly about some...
...Remember that Ingmar knows to whom he's writing the parts. So there is no way that he would write a part [for an actress] if he knows that she wouldn't really understand it. If he thinks she can understand it, then he'll write it for her. Certainly he wouldn't have done this movie if it didn?t have Erland and he didn't have...
...ULLMANN: But absolutely. Both Bille August and I wouldn't do anything that wasn't Ingmar?s choice. But the choices were so obvious in all the cases for the leads. For Private Confessions I wouldn't want to work with anyone else but Pernilla August [the actress who was married to director Bille] because she had played the same woman, Ingmar's mother, in Best Intentions. She even looks like Ingmar's mother. And in Saraband, the dead woman Anna, seen in a photograph - she also looks like Ingmar's mother...
...emotion, which I wouldn't have been if I had done it the way I would have liked to. You know, big closeup - everything would have happened much earlier. This is one of his tricks to make an actor be creative, because I could allow myself as an actress in a play to be taken by the emotions...
DIED. JUNE HAVER, 79, wholesome actress of such 1940s film musicals as The Dolly Sisters and Look for the Silver Lining, promoted briefly as the next Betty Grable; in Los Angeles. A tumultuous personal life led her in 1953 to join a convent briefly, before returning to Hollywood and marrying actor Fred MacMurray in 1954. Their marriage lasted until his death...