Word: ingrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turn of the Screw, brilliantly directed by John (Playhouse go) Frankenheimer and starring Ingrid Bergman. Actress Bergman ran a shuddering range of emotions, from schoolmotherly affection for two children placed in her care, to sheer terror of two black ghosts that possess the children, to cold determination to fight the dead and save the souls of the living...
...Magician (Swedish). Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman's latest public fantasy, full of sharp physical images and foggy symbols; the story of a mid-19th century Mesmer and his touring Magnetic Health Theater, whose members include his wife (Ingrid Thulin), masquerading as a male helper, his witch-grandmother, an ailing actor and an oversexed coachman...
Cold as sculptured ice, Ingrid Bergman faced Roberto Rossellini in a Roman court, there to do battle against his latest attempt to gain permanent custody of their three children, who are now in the 13th week of a two-month visit with their father. Distantly, she called him "Signor Rossellini." He baked her in a Latin gaze. "Ingrid," he said, "call me Roberto." With that, her reserve melted into tears. When the show was over, Judge Giovanni Salemi agreed to let her keep the children. She could pick them up next month...
...together in just 33 days of shooting. Director Rossellini himself had seen the finished film only one day before the festival deadline; there was not even time for careful editing. But with money and time running out, Rossellini, whose reputation had been sliding downhill even before he ditched Ingrid Bergman for India's sloe-eyed Sonali Das Gupta, was forced to gamble on an unfinished draft. Despite the long odds...
...Magician (Swedish). Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman's latest public fantasy, full of sharp physical images and foggy symbols; the story of a mid-19th century Mesmer and his touring Magnetic Health Theater, whose members include his wife (Ingrid Thulin), masquerading as a male helper, his witch grandmother, an ailing actor and an oversexed coachman...