Sidney Lumet: On Ingrid Bergman

Posted on December 21, 2004 by sheila

Excerpt from Sidney Lumet’s Making Movies:

Sidney Lumet:

In Murder on the Orient Express, I wanted Ingrid Bergman to play the Russian Princess Dragomiroff. She wanted to play the retarded Swedish maid. I wanted Ingrid Bergman. I let her play the maid.

She won an Academy Award.

I bring this up because self-knowledge is important in so many ways to an actor.

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1 Response to Sidney Lumet: On Ingrid Bergman

  1. mitch says:
    December 21, 2004 at 12:04 pm

    I didn’t know this one.

    Thanks!

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