Ingrid Bergman
The Class and Style of Ingrid Bergman
She was an enigma, or so I thought. I first encountered her in Casablanca, but some time passed before I saw more of her films. Based on that first encounter, however, I knew that Ingrid Bergman had grace, poise, and the distinct ability to inspire emotion. Her performance in Casablanca possessed a sincerity that is difficult to find in modern movies and in modern actresses. This quality, along with so much more, carried forward into subsequent roles.

Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress. Ingrid Bergman co-starred with Humphrey Bogart in the 1942 classic film Casablanca, which remains her best-known role. In this film, Ingrid Bergman played the role of Ilsa, the beautiful Norwegian wife of Victor Laszlo, played by Paul Henreid, an "anti-Nazi underground hero" who is in Casablanca, a safe-haven from the Nazis. Ingrid Bergman did not consider Casablanca to be one of her favorite performances. "I made so many films which were more important...

Ingrid Bergman, Her Early Career
Ingrid Bergman is something of an enigma, even if she is a great actress. She was crucially unique and her own chosen self: tall, 'natural' looking, fluent in English yet unmistakably Swedish in her voice, an actress who always strove to be a 'true' woman. There was a time in the early and mid-1940 's when Bergman commanded a kind of love in America that has been hardly ever matched. In turn, it was the strength of that affection that animated the 'scandal' when she behaved like an impetuous ...