Ingrid Bergman: My Story

One of the world's finest stage and screen actresses gives us an autobiography as outstanding as she is. More than just an account of her illustrious career, here is a totally candid self-portrait of a remarkable woman: her personal failures as well as her public successes.

From childhood on, Ingrid Bergman was committed to being an actress, sure of herself only in that role, led by the men in her life in other decisions. As a young unknown just arrived in this country to make Intermezzo, she could confront a David O. Selznick, at the height of his power, and insist that she would not be made into a Hollywood stereotype. But as a wife she was used to being told what to do.

Throughout her career Ingrid Bergman has sought new challenges as an actress--roles that would change her image and test her abilities: Gaslight, Casablanca, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Notorious, Indiscreet, Anastasia, Autumn Sonata. It was her interest in the startling dramatic realism of Roberto Rossellini's Open City and Paisan that inspired her to write, offering to work for Rossellini. That letter led to Stromboli and the end of her marriage.

Her fans thought of her as she was in The Bells of St. Mary's and Joan of Arc: a nun, a saint, the embodiment of virtue. But when she left her husband and child for Rossellini, she fell so far from grace that she was even condemned in the Senate. She went from Number One at the box office to near oblivion. It would be sixteen years before she would see Hollywood again.

Ingrid Bergman, the human being--warm, witty, humorous, and relentlessly honest--shines through the pages of her memoir. Whether writing of Garbo, Bogart, Cooper, Hitchcock, or Cary Grant, of her three Academy Awards or her three marriages, she does so with a disarming candor and humanity., ISBN13:B00POFD79C ISBN10:B00POFD79C Material Type:hardcover