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Three-time Academy Award® winner Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) was one of the top Hollywood stars in the 1940s. Bergman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and began appearing in Swedish films as early as 1932. She would appear in 11 movies made in Sweden before she was noticed by American producer David O. Selznick. Selznick signed her to a one-picture deal and brought her to the United States (he did the same with Alfred Hitchcock around this time as well). Bergman could not speak any English at all when she arrived to film the movie, 1939’s Intermezzo: A Love Story and figured she would rejoin her husband and daughter back in Sweden when Intermezzo was done filming. She got that one wrong. Instead, Bergman became known as “Sweden’s illustrious gift to Hollywood.”
Bergman’s career was like a roller coaster. Many ups, downs, twists, and turns over a forty-year career. The 1940s were the peak of her career as she appeared in classic movie after classic movie….including winning her first Oscar® for 1944’s Gaslight. While filming the 1950 movie Stromboli, the still-married Bergman, gave birth to Roberto Rossellini’s (director of Stromboli) child. The scandal caused her to leave America and retreat back to Europe. The next 6 years, her movies were not well received and she was considered box office poison. She rebounded with her Oscar® winning performance in 1956’s Anastasia. The rest of the 1950s, Bergman was back in successfully movies. From 1960 until 1978 she would only appear in 9 more movies. The highlights of the later part of her career were winning her third Oscar® for 1974’s Murder on the Orient Express and her Oscar® nominated performance in 1978’s Autumn Sonata. Autumn Sonata would turn out to be her last performance. Ingrid Bergman passed away in 1982 following complications from a breast cancer operation.
Her IMDb page shows 52 acting credits from 1932-1982. This page will rank 32 Ingrid Bergman movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.
Ingrid Bergman Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Ingrid Bergman Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Ingrid Bergman movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Ingrid Bergman movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Ingrid Bergman movies by yearly box office rank
- Sort Ingrid Bergman movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Ingrid Bergman movie received.
- Sort Ingrid Bergman movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Ingrid Bergman Adjusted Worldwide Box Office Grosses
Possibly Interesting Facts About Ingrid Bergman
1. Ingrid Bergman got to play the character, Anita Hoffman, twice in the movies. The first time was in the 1936 Swedish film Intermezzo. When super producer David O. Selznick saw the movie he bought the rights to the movie and Bergman’s services to play the same role in 1939’s Intermezzo: A Love Story.
2. Ingrid Bergman was nominated 7 times for an Oscar® for her movie roles. She won three times. She was also nominated 7 times for the Golden Globe® awards…..she won that award three times as well.
3. According to the American Film Institute, Ingrid Bergman is the 4th greatest female star of all-time.
4. Ingrid Bergman starred in three Alfred Hitchcock movies….two of them are classics…1945’s Spellbound and 1946’s Notorious…..and one of them is easily forgotten….1949’s Under Capricorn….sorry Flora and Steve.
5. Ingrid Bergman was married twice in her life. Her first marriage was to Petter Lindström in 1937. Their marriage lasted until 1949 and they had one daughter, Pia. In 1950 she married director Roberto Rossellini. They had one son, Renato and twin daughters Isabella and Isotta. Isabella has been in such movies as Death Becomes Her and Blue Velvet.
6. Roles Ingrid Bergman turned down or was seriously considered for …An Affair To Remember, The Miracle Worker, Interiors, The Paradine Case, Planet of the Apes and Spartacus.
7. During her scandal in the early 1950s….Cary Grant was one of the few people to stand up for Bergman during the scandal. When she won her second Oscar® for 1956’s Anastasia ….she asked Grant to accept the honor for her.
8. Casablanca is probably her most famous role. Casablanca is ranked #2 of all movies made according to the American Film Institute(AFI). Six of the quotes in Casablanca are ranked in the Top 10 of movie quotes…also according to AFI. My favorite is “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship”…what a way to end a movie.
9. It took Ingrid Bergman and director Ingmar Bergman almost 40 years to work together…but the two Swedish legends finally made 1978’s Autumn Sonata. Ingrid Bergman received her final Oscar® nomination for the role.
10. Check out Ingrid Bergman‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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@Cogerson…I’m always surprised at the star’s top box office hit — “For Whom the Bell Tolls” for Ingrid. I would have thought “Casablanca”, or “Notorious”.
I know critics thought she was woefully miscast in “Cactus Flower”, but I loved her in that part, and thought she got everything just perfect with Walter Matthau.
Love this stuff!
Hey Barbsbitsnpieces….Casablanca gained its fame and box office as the years went along(or should I say As Time Goes By)…while Notorious was hit it was small compared to her big box office hits….For Whom The Bell Tolls and The Bells of St. Marys…..actually both of these movies stayed in the Variety’s Top 20 of all time until the late 1950s.
As for Cactus Flower, I agree I enjoyed her part much better than Goldie Hawn’s part….and Goldie won the Oscar for her part….thanks for the compliment and the comment.
Hi, Cogerson – I loved reading this hub about the beautiful and talented Ingrid Bergman. I don’t think I have ever seen Anastasia and boy do I want to now. Funny, my son’s girlfriend has often been compared to Ingrid and we have Ingrid “staring” as our girl in the fake “Story of Our Lives” in which we suggest actors who would play us in a phony bio pic. Haha. Our girl becomes so annoyed at the suggestion. Why? To be compared to the lovely Ingrid is a great compliment
Hey Dolores, I agree 100% Bergman was a very beautiful actress…and your son is lucky to be dating someone that looks like her…some guys have all the luck. Anastasia is a great classic movie….Bergman is awesome, as well as Helen Hayes as the Queen and Yul Brynner as somewhat of a con man. Thanks for the comments.
A great star, extremely talented. I’d put her in the top actresses of all time category (Along with Kate Hepburn, Bette Davis and Merryl Sreep). And she was beautiful, too.
Did you know that her last role was in a made-for-TV film called “A Woman Called Golda”, (1982) where she played Golda Meir. It was released the same year she died. She won an emmy for best actress in a TV movie, but sadly she passed away 3 weeks before the ceremony. Her daughter Pia Lindstrom accepted her postumous trophy.
My favorite film of hers is “Casablanca”, which I’ve seen a zillion times. An interesting fact is that she didn’t know how the film was going to end while she was shooting it and she didn’t know if her character Ilsa was in love with Rick or with Victor. Her confusion actually added to her character’s on-screen ambiguity about who she wanted to be
Hey Rob….thanks for the comments. I think a Mount Rushmore of Actresses with Hepburn, Streep, Bergman, and Davis as the faces would be very acceptable.
Golda is one of the best tv movies ever made, it was a shame she was not able to pick up her Emmy award.
Casablanca is a classic, hard to believe they(the people behind the scenes) were making it up as they went along…to quote Indiana Jones….as always thanks for stopping by.
Ingrid who? Name sounds familiar but I’ve never seen her movies. Fantastic tribute hub!! Can we get a pulse now? Voted UP/Interesting/Awesome … I did learn some interesting info about Ms Bergman 🙂
Hey Sunshine625….thanks for the support….I did do Dustin Hoffman last time…if you have not watched Casablanca I highly recommend you watch that movie….as yes we will do a hub with somebody with a very active pulse.
I am totally wowed and prraeepd to take the next step now.
Thanks for the visit…Jayden.
ho-hum, sounds like you picked a co-star to Gary Cooper, Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Albert Finney, Charles Boyer, and Walter Matthau
Hey mckbirdbks….I actually voted for your suggestion of William Holden….on the last three polls…..but Mr. Holden will be coming pretty soon….looking at my hub schedule….he will be hub #99. And I am sure Picnic will be pretty highly rated when the hub comes out. Thanks for checking out my ho-hum on Ingrid Bergman.