Word: bergman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last month as a rumor, and Hollywood had buzzed with it ever since. But last week, when Columnist Louella Parsons spread it as fact all over the front pages of the Hearst papers, a nation of moviegoers gawked. Screamed Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner across eight columns: INGRID BERGMAN BABY DUE IN 3 MONTHS IN ROME...
...Cartoonist Helen Hokinson [TiME, Nov. 14] brought vividly to mind our meeting in Connecticut several summers ago. My husband and I were vacationing in the East, and on the strength of having sold her four cartoon suggestions (one: "Now, please bear in mind that I am not Ingrid Bergman"-see cut), we asked her to meet us for cocktails . . . We found her to be shy, modest, thoroughly affable, and reminiscent of her women . . . When we asked her what she'd like to drink, she said: "A glass of iced tea. Hard liquor makes...
...government?" With a memorable culture-or-bust look, she inquired of a bookstore clerk: "Isn't it about time another one of John Gunther's 'Insides' came out?" And she begged her hairdresser: "Now please bear in mind that I am not Ingrid Bergman...
...story takes us back to the any-man's-land of Australia at the turn of the last century. In the course of eloping with the stable boy (Joseph Cotten) at her English home, Ingrid Bergman had shot one of her brothers who objected to her marrying beneath herself. Cotten took the blame and was promptly shipped off to Australia as a galley slave. Ingrid went there and, working in a pursuit which she did not care to elaborate upon, finally earned enough to buy his freedom...
Since Australia was a place where no questions were asked, Cotten soon became a financial success, but failed to gain social recognition because of his rough manners. This combination of circumstances caused Ingrid Bergman to be very despondent and constantly drunk, until the "other man" played by Michael Wilding, came along. After helping her back to sanity, making a pass, and surviving an accidental bullet in his belly, Wilding went back to England, leaving the couple to relative happiness as they walked into the sunset...