Tag Archives: Ingrid Bergman

For Joseph Cotten’s birthday: Gaslight: His Listening Is Active

Posted on May 15, 2025 by sheila

Except for a couple of brief encounters in public settings, Joseph Cotten’s Brian Cameron and Ingrid Bergman’s Paula Asquist never meet until the final scene of Gaslight. Cameron is obsessed with the unsolved murder of Paula Asquist’s aunt, and is … Continue reading →

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Sidney Lumet: Excerpts from Making Movies

Posted on June 25, 2022 by sheila

It’s Sidney Lumet’s birthday. Here are many excerpts from his classic and invaluable film-making handbook Making Movies: In Murder on the Orient Express, I wanted Ingrid Bergman to play the Russian Princess Dragomiroff. She wanted to play the retarded Swedish … Continue reading →

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June 2018 Viewing Diary

Posted on July 1, 2018 by sheila

This viewing diary is amusing to me,. This month has been so full, with mostly bad things (the world/national situation as well as some family awfulness) … and I got a gig early in the month which then took up … Continue reading →

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“She would always say, ‘People have to make sense.’” – Ingrid Rossellini on her mother, Ingrid Bergman

Posted on August 26, 2015 by sheila

This year is the centenary of Ingrid Bergman’s birth, and there is a huge retrospective happening at MoMA and BAM here in New York, programmed by her three children, Isabella and Ingrid Rossellini, and Pia Lindstrom. My friend Dan Callahan … Continue reading →

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The Fat-Headed Guy Full Of Pain: Cary Grant in Notorious

Posted on May 19, 2012 by sheila

All week, a blogathon has been going on, hosted by The Self-Styled Siren, Rod Heath, and

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The Books: The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II, by Aljean Harmetz

Posted on March 30, 2012 by sheila

Next book on the Hollywood shelf: The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II, by Aljean Harmetz The book was first published under the title Round Up the Usual Suspects, which I like better, but that’s neither here … Continue reading →

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On Jennifer Lawrence: Guts, earth, self-reliance, and a little bit of Ingrid Bergman, too

Posted on March 29, 2012 by sheila

This article originally appeared on Capital New York. Stepping into the lead role in a beloved franchise, especially of the Y.A. variety, is not for the faint-hearted. Everyone and their grandma will have an opinion on whether or not you … Continue reading →

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Iron Ladies, Hollywood-Style

Posted on December 28, 2011 by sheila

This article originally appeared on Capital New York. It’s still up there, although it’s now part of Politico, and so I have reprinted the piece here, because I fear all of the dead links in my future. In lieu of … Continue reading →

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Quotes on acting 10: Sidney Lumet on Ingrid Bergman

Posted on June 6, 2010 by sheila

“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 … Continue reading →

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Memos from David O. Selznick

Posted on April 30, 2010 by sheila

Excerpts from the addictive Memo from David O. Selznick : The Creation of “Gone with the Wind” and Other Motion Picture Classics, as Revealed in the Producer’s Private Letters, Telegrams, Memorandums, and Autobiographical Remarks, part of the Modern Library “The … Continue reading →

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