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Leamer, Laurence, author.

As time goes by : the life of Ingrid Bergman / Laurence Leamer.

First edition

New York : Harper & Row, [1986].

©1986

423 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white photographs ; 25 cm

Definitive Bergman bio. As usual with actors, there is the public and the private person, and Ingrid was very much the captive of her imaginary or cumulative screen version, much more so than she admits in her semi-memoir. In later years she often spoke with the exaggerated dignity of a wronged woman about the American public's response to her affair and illegitimate child with Rosselini. She had been marketed by David Selznik and others as 100% pure cream and radiant virtue, during her early Hollywood years, but all the while was sleeping with her directors or leading men as regularly as any hussy--and not showing any guilt about it while keeping it all from her husband. The final chapters are exceptionally gripping, as Bergman goes into her last film, Golds, after a mastectomy and while dying of cancer. A loving and very professional job of writing.

Bergman, Ingrid, 1915-1982.

Actors -- Sweden -- Biography.

Actors -- Sweden -- 20th century.

Motion picture actors and actresses -- Sweden -- Biography.

Motion picture actors and actresses -- Sweden -- 20th century.

Television actors and actresses -- Sweden -- Biography.

Television actors and actresses -- Sweden -- 20th century.

Biographies.

Life of Ingrid Bergman

"Portions of this book have been published in slightly different form in People and the National enquirer"--Title page verso.

Includes filmography (pages 362-375), chapter notes (pages 377-402), bibliographical references (pages 403-406), and index.

The star who had everything -- "Papa, Papa, that's what I'm going to do" -- "Oh, she starts well, doesn't she?" -- Destined for Hollywood -- "A figure to take into account" -- A willful ignorance -- "The bars of my cage are broken" -- Money, fame, and power -- A tigress who has made a kill -- A Hollywood career -- The loneliness of a bad marriage -- A secular saint -- "Ti amo" -- The prince of disorder -- The edge of a volcano -- A child of love -- The donna of Santa Marinella -- "Welcome home, Miss Bergman" -- A man of perfect manners -- An elegant facade -- "Darling, that is you crying" -- Ingrid's great performance -- "Oh, Wendy, it's only a play" -- "I don't want the film to be over" -- "I'm alone" -- The endless sea.

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