But I would act fast⦠[View in browser]( I Mar 14, 2023 [Logo The Empire Trading]( Editor's Note: At The Empire Trading, we are serious about being your âeyes and earsâ for special opportunities for you to take advantage of. The message below from one of our partners is one we think you should take a close look at. [The Empire Trading] Ingrid Bergman biography ingrid-bergmanIngrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who was highly regarded for her roles in influential films, such as Casablanca (1942), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) and Anastasia (1956). She is the second most decorated Hollywood actress, with three Oscars, after Katherine Hepburn. Bergman was considered to have tremendous acting talent, an angelic natural beauty and the willingness to work hard to get the best out of films. She was also a very versatile actress, fluent in five languages and appearing in a range of films, plays and TV productions. Early life Ingrid Bergman Ingrid was born in Stockholm, Sweden on August 29, 1915. Her mother was German (of Jewish extraction) and her father Swedish. Her mother died when she was three, and her father passed away when she was 12. After this tragic loss, she went to live with her unmarried aunt who died just six months after Ingrid moved in. She was then brought up by her Uncle Otto and Aunt Hulda. Ingrid_BergmanFrom an early age, she was interested in acting. Even with her father (a camera enthusiast), she had compiled some early motion picture videos. When she was 17, she attended the Royal Dramatic Theater School in Stockholm. She made her début on the stage but was more interested in working in films. Her first minor speaking role came in 1935 when she played a maid in a low budget Swedish film âMunkborgrevenâ In the late 1930s, she made her big break into Hollywood. She had starred in a Swedish production of âIntermezzoâ (1936) the story of a violinist who has an affair with his daughterâs violin teacher. Bergman played the role of the violin teacher. The director David Selznick was so impressed with Bergmanâs role that he bought the rights to have the film remade in Hollywood and chose Bergman to play the lead role. The film Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939) was a commercial and critical success, leading Selznick to sign Bergman for a seven-year deal. In the early 1940s, she gained star status in Hollywood. In many ways she was considered the darling of Hollywood, she played many roles as the heroine of the film. Combined with her unadulterated good looks, she was quietly considered the Angel of Hollywood. ingrid-bergman-casablanca-2 Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca She was catapulted to global fame through her role in the 1942 film Casablanca. She played Ilsa, the wife of Victor Lazlo (played by Paul Henreid. Humphrey Bogart played Rick Blaine.) The film was produced at an important time (1942) and was made with a motivation to foster public opinion in the US against the Naziâs. The film was a huge commercial and critical success â and even 60 years later it is considered one of the greatest and most influential films ever produced. Bergman never considered the film to be her best role. But, she felt that the film seemed to capture something, almost mystically important. Despite a long and distinguished film career, she observed that it was Casablanca that people always wanted to talk about. âI feel about Casablanca that it has a life of its own. There is something mystical about it. It seems to have filled a need, a need that was there before the film, a need that the film filled.â Chandler, Charlotte (2007). Ingrid: Ingrid Bergman, A Personal Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 19, 21, 294 She followed this great success with just one more film in 1943 For Whom the Bell Tolls. The bookâs author, Ernest Hemingway personally chose Ingrid Bergman â stating to Ingrid â âYou are Mariaâ. She received her first Oscar nomination for this role. Bergman was choosing her films carefully, only doing a limited number, but each film was a great commercial success, making her one of the hottest properties in Hollywood. âIâve never sought success in order to get fame and money; itâs the talent and the passion that count in success.â âThe Last Word â A Treasury of Womenâs Quotes,â by Carolyn Warner, (1992) Other successful films followed, including Gaslight (1944) (which gave her first Academy Award for Best Actress), a nun in The Bells of St. Maryâs (1945) and also Hitchcock classics, such as Spellbound (1945) and Notorious (1946). In 1948, she played Joan of Arc in the film âJoan of Arcâ (1948). Directed by Victor Fleming, Bergman had wanted to play this role for several years and considered it her dream role. However, the film received a mixed reception, with critics not universally impressed and the box office receipts were disappointing â given Bergmanâs past track record. It was one of her few films to make a loss at the time of release. Though it has since earned back its investment. In 1937, Bergman married Swedish dentist Petter Lindstrom. They had one daughter, Pia. Lindstrom moved to New York in 1940 to be with Bergman, but he was not enamoured of the Hollywood scene. The relationship became increasingly distant with both drifting apart. In the 1940s, Bergman wrote to the influential Italian director Roberto Rossellini praising his work and suggesting that they make a film together. In 1950, they filmed Stromboli (1950) together and she also began an affair with Rossellini, which resulted in boy â Robertino Rossellini, born in 1950. Shortly after his birth, she divorced Lindstrom and married Rossellini. She gave birth to twin daughters in 1952. Her affair with Rossellini and divorce had a devastating impact on her carefully cultivated image and popularity. From being the angel of Hollywood, she was criticised and censored, at a time when there was a stricter morality about divorce. She was even denounced on the floor of the US Senate by Charles H.Percy who stated she was âa powerful influence for evil.â (22 years later he would enter an apology in the Congressional Record.) Towards the end of her life Bergman would wryly remark that her public image went: âfrom saint to whore and back to saint again,â During the 1950s, Bergman featured in several of Rosselliniâs films. They were quite different to her previous Hollywood box office hits. Rossellini adopted a neo-realist style â often using non-professional actors and only a minimal script. In fact, Bergman was one of the few actors that Rossellini used on several occasions. The relationship was not always easy, and communication difficulties meant, in 1957, she divorced Rossellini; a year later she married Lars Schmidt a marriage which lasted two decades until they divorced in 1975. After a break from Hollywood, she returned to feature in Anastasia (1956) this gained her a second Academy Award for Best actress. In 1958, she was the presenter of Academy Award for Best Picture, receiving a rapturous welcome, indicating her return to Hollywoodâs affections. Her later film career involved a variety of roles, illustrating her adaptability and flexibility. She alternated between European and American films and also featured in stage productions and some TV work. She spoke five languages (Swedish, German, French, Italian and English) and featured in films with different languages. In 1974, she received her third Oscar for her role in âMurder on the Orient Expressâ (1974). She refused the role of Princess Dragomiroff, choosing instead the much small role of Greta Ohlsson, an old Swedish missionary. It was typical of Bergman, she was careful of the roles she played and chose them for many reasons â not just which would be most successful or highly paid. âI am an actress and I am interested in acting, not in making money.â Her last film was Ingmar Bergmanâs critically acclaimed âAutumn Sonataâ in 1978. Her last role came in A Woman Called Golda (1982), where she played the Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. It was her last acting role, and she took it on, despite suffering from breast cancer. Just four months after finishing filming, she died. She received a second Emmy Award for best actress. She later said she didnât have regrets about her life âI have no regrets. I wouldnât have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.â Hello Friend! [I am astonished and appalled by what could happen to America soonâ¦]( Because a former CIA insider just exposed the truth about the Fed⦠And what he said shook me to my core. Audrey Hepburn Biography Audrey Hepburn actor(1929â1993) British actress and humanitarian. Hepburn was a major Hollywood star of the 1950s and 1960s, starring in classic films such as Roman Holiday (1956), The Nunâs Story (1956) and Breakfast at Tiffanyâs (1961). Audrey Hepburn later retired from acting and served as an ambassador for UNICEF. Short biography of Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn was born to an English audrey hepburnfather and Dutch mother in Belgium, May 4th, 1929. Her fatherâs job as an insurance agent meant the family often moved between England, Holland and Belgium. In 1935, her parents divorced; one reason for this was that her father was a Nazi sympathiser. The divorce was very traumatic for six-year-old Audrey; she would later say it was the most traumatic incident of her life. After the war, despite suffering under the Nazi occupation, Audrey later tracked down her father to Dublin and supported him financially. From 1935â38, Audrey went to boarding school in Kent; in 1939 her mother moved the family to Arnhem in the Netherlands, where she thought it would be safe from Nazi invasion. However, in 1940, the Netherlands was overrun, and the country fell under Nazi occupation until liberation in 1945. During this time, Audrey went to school at the Arnhem conservatory where she also studied ballet. At one time she considered taking ballet as a career. During the occupation, it was said she would often dance in various locations, helping to raise money for the underground movement. Towards the end of the war, the occupation of Netherlands became increasingly brutal. After the D-Day landings of 1944, the Germans took most of the pitiable rations of the Dutch, leaving many to starve or freeze to death. Reprisals and shootings against the local population were common. As a young girl, Audrey saw her uncle and motherâs cousin shot in the street by the Germans. She also recalls seeing a trainload of Jewish children being herded into cattle trucks for deportation. âI have memories. More than once I was at the station seeing trainloads of Jews being transported, seeing all these faces over the top of the wagon.â (5) The harrowing experiences of war left a profound mark on Audrey; it was one reason for her later commitments to the UNICEF childrenâs charity. âI can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War IIâ (4) She felt a natural empathy and sympathy for children who were the victims of war and starvation. During the war Audrey suffered anaemia, respiratory problems and oedema (swelling of the limbs) Audrey later noted a similarity between her wartime experience and that of Anne Frank. She read her diary in 1946, and said it âleft her feeling devastated.â However, despite the ongoing horrors of the occupation, Audrey passed her time through drawing and practising ballet. After the war, Audrey went to London where she continued to practise ballet. She had great talent, but her height and malnutrition during the war meant that she was unable to become a really great ballerina, and so decided to seek work as an actor. Did you see the interview yet? If not, you can watch it [here](. But I would act fast⦠Because the âelitesâ could have it taken off the internet any day now. Audrey Hepburn Acting After several minor roles in films such as The Lavender Hill Mob, Audrey was scooterchosen to play Gigi, a hit West End play. She was given an award by the theatre world for the best debut performance. Her first film was Secret People in 1952; a film about a prodigy ballerina, which was a natural choice for Audrey to play. It was during the filming for this that she was spotted by director William Wyler. He was producing a film âRoman Holidayâ, and he felt the innocence and elfin beauty of Audrey Hepburn would make a perfect choice for the English Princess, who spends a day in Rome in the company of Gregory Peck. The film was a great hit, and on the advertising, Audrey Hepburn was given the same billing as Gregory Peck. In many respects, Audrey outshone her more illustrious lead Gregory Peck; as Peck predicted, it was Audrey who would be given an Oscar for her performance. This film established her place in Hollywoodâs elite and allowed her to play against many of the leading men of the time. For example, Sabrina with Humphrey Bogart and opposite Fred Astaire in Funny Face. Enduring Appeal of Audrey Hepburn The enduring popularity and appeal of Audrey Hepburn can be attributed to many factors. She had a natural beauty and elegance; she has often been voted the most beautiful woman of the century (2). However, she also had an aura of childlike innocence which portrayed a natural charm and humour. She was held in high regard by many in the film industry; she avoided conflict, and many of the top actors said how much they enjoyed working with Audrey. As Cary Grant once said, ââ¦all I want for Christmas is another picture with Audrey Hepburn.â (5) Although she was one of Hollywoodâs great stars of the 1950s and 1960s, she didnât allow her fame to go to her head; often she would be quite happy to stay at home with her family. Her son wrote a moving tribute to his mother in his book Audrey Hepburn, an Elegant Spirit: A Son Remembers (1999). audrey hepburnIn 1961, Audrey played one of her most demanding roles, the extrovert Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffanyâs. She said of her role that it was âone of the jazziest of my career,â contrary to her introverted nature and thus quite difficult to pull off. However, her performance was one of the most iconic roles of the 1960s. The film has retained an enduring popularity to this day. In 2006, the âlittle black dressâ from the film was sold at auction for just under half a million pounds. (3) The proceeds were given to one of Audreyâs charities. In 1959, she stared in The Nunâs Story â quite different to her other roles, this was a challenging portrayal of a young nun, Sister Luke, who trained to be a novice nun before spending time as a missionary in the Congo. Sister Luke also faces a painful spiritual dilemma as she returns to Belgium and the Nazi occupation. With some parallels to her own life, the film showed the multifaceted acting talents of Audrey Hepburn. Itâs that shocking [Click here to see the interview he gaveâ¦and to find out what it could mean for both America and your finances.]( Audrey Hepburn UNICEF Charity Work audrey hepburn From 1967, after 15 years in film, Audrey acted only occasionally. She spent more time with her family and also working with UNICEF. She was appointed as a special ambassador to UNICEF and became actively involved in campaigns to improve conditions for children around the world. In 1988 she visited Ethiopia at a camp for children. On seeing the poverty and starvation she remarked: âI have a broken heart. I feel desperate. I canât stand the idea that two million people are in imminent danger of starving to death, many of them children, and [sic] not because there isnât tons of food sitting in the northern port of Shoa.â (1) â Audrey Hepburn She also visited street children in South America and was appalled to see children living in such conditions. She later reported to Congress how UNICEF had been able to make a difference: âI saw tiny mountain communities, slums, and shantytowns receive water systems for the first time by some miracle â and the miracle is UNICEF. I watched boys build their own schoolhouse with bricks and cement provided by UNICEF.â Death of Audrey Hepburn After returning from Somalia in 1992, Audrey Hepburn developed cancer of the colon. The disease proved to be untreatable, and in January 1993 she died in Switzerland aged 63. Regards,
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