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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
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- 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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1 Ingrid is one of the few big stars that I know of who fought NOT to get top billing in a movie ! ***She coveted the female lead in Gaslight (1944) but also wanted to work with Charles Boyer whose contract guaranteed him first billing. At first her strong minded agent refused to let her do the picture unless Boyer relinquished the top spot but saying that she didn’t mind going second as long as the names were of equal size Ingrid successfully pleaded with her agent to relent.
2 After a period in ‘exile’ for in my view unfair criticism for perceived scandalous conduct Ingrid returned to Hollywood in 1956 and subsequently had three solid critical and box office successes including Indiscreet with her great and loyal friend Cary Grant. Thereafter however her hits were sporadic and in fact as the above table illustrates almost 68% (about $3.2 billion) of her updated overall gross of approx $4.7 billion came from her heyday in the 1940s .
Nevertheless $4.7 billion and an average gross of around $145 per movie is a fine return for 32 movies in a career that was cruelly sabotaged for quite a while by the intolerant attitudes of the time.
*** Dorothy Malone reportedly asked Universal to place her name last among the stars of Written on the Wind (1956). From the early rushes she was convinced that her portrayal of Robert Stack’s nymphomaniac alcoholic sister in that movie would put her in contention for best supporting actress at the Oscars so to ensure nomination in that category she wanted her name as far down the star cast list as possible. Whether by coincidence or not it worked as she was not only nominated but won.
Hey Bob.
1. Good to know that Bergman was willing to not fight over billing when it came to a quality movie. Seems history has given Bergman a higher billing than Boyer.
2. I agree…she was unfairly banished….and at the peak of her career…..it is sad to think about the performances we (the movie going audiences missed during that time frame) missed.
3. The beginning of her career was one of the best starts ever.
4. After her return….she quickly fell into the curse of “39”…she had her “welcome hit movies”…and then as you say “her hits were sporadic”…and they were not leading roles.
5. Great story on Dorothy Malone and Written on the Wind….glad her strategy worked.
Great feedback as always.
Nice to read! This is something I will share with my friends.
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How can you leave out The Seventh Seal on your Bergman page? Is that even possible? No no no! How do I unsubscribe?
Good to see Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (aka the one that wasn’t very scary) was a moneymaker for MGM, it’s my favorite of all the Jekyll & Hyde adaptations. But Casablanca, my favorite film of the 1940s, was a massive worldwide hit, $600m + adjusted is very impressive. Saratoga Trunk was huge too.
I’m guessing For Whom the Bell Tolls was Ingrids biggest worldwide hit? It grossed nearly half a billion domestic adjusted, jeez! Or was it the other ‘Bell’ movie?
A cool update Bruce, packed with rare stats. Vote Up!
Hey Stefan…..You don’t see The Seventh Seal? It is right behind Scenes from a Marriage….and right before Wild Strawberries, Persona and Cries and Whispers…..maybe you should look again.
Interesting that the Spencer Tracy Jekyll and Hyde is your favorite…..it was made a the peak of Spencer Tracy’s box office power. Her two Bell movies were monster hits….too bad I could not find worldwide numbers on those two movies.
Thanks for checking out another one of our updated pages….:)
MORNIN STEVE [Bergman video]
1 Ingrid’s big decade was the 1940s; and from 1949 until 1956 she was absent from American film because of perceived scandalous conduct which caused her to be ostracised for a time in Tinseltown. Accordingly she had fewer mainstream Hollywood movies in her prime than many other big stars, so a Top 22 is appropriate in her case. She made 13 movies in the 40s and I think all of them are in your chart and you also have most of her great classics in your Top half dozen or so with my only disappointment being Bells of St Mary’s outside your Top 10.
2 Unsurprisingly you have Casablanca at No 1 and I agree with you but I see from Ingrid’s opening quote in the video that she does NOT. However the Oracle’s critic/audience rating is on our side here so that’s HER put in her place !! Your posters reproduction is as usual stunning and my only very petty bone of contention is that the billing in Bells of St Mary’s is misleading in that OFFICIALLY Bing and not Ingrid was actually billed first in that movie; but all of your other posters are spot-on with the billing.
3 You have Indiscreet**at No 13 and for sentimental reasons I would have placed it higher [and Our Leader’s audience/critic column ranks it No 7] because it was Ingrid’s 2nd film on her return from ‘exile’ and it must have been a labour of love for her as Grant was her co-star and she claimed that Cary was one of the few celebs to stand by her during her turbulent years. This is the man who also contributed to the War Effort his salary for Philadelphia Story so why is it that I read only bad things about him on Bruce Cogerson’s site ?
**The film was based on the play Kind Sir in which Ingrid’s old Gaslight co-star Charles Boyer played the Grant role on stage in New York in 1953. Monroe and King Gable were actually first choices for the 1958 film version.
Bob, I can’t even remember making such a video are you sure you have right name and who is this Ingmar Bergman person anyway? Never heard of her.
Indiscreet had a middling score from all of my sources (cue Bob cursing my sources) the highest was Rotten Tomatoes which gave it 7.2 and they were being generous. [cue Bruce snarling]
I don’t think I’ve ever seen The Bells of St. Trinians, sorry, St. Marys, or it’s Oscar-winning prequel, Going My Way. But I have seen clips on TV and the odd photo, and I do mean odd.
Someone saying bad things about Cary Grant? Is that even possible? Who would dare such a thing? Bruce? Or was it Bob? I love that quote from Archie Leach aka Cary Grant “Everyone wants to be Cary Grant—even I want to be Cary Grant”
Thanks for checking out my Bergman video Bob, the poster for The Seventh Seal was my favorite.
p.s. remember my ratings are supremely accurate, precise and can never be changed or even verified, no actually they fluctuate from video to video but no one has noticed yet.
Cheers
Hey Steve. “my ratings are supremely accurate”…. I am thinking something is being lost in the translation as your comment travels the Atlantic Ocean….lol. Wow this page needs an update….thankfully the page that have not been updated are becoming more extinct every week. We really have different source if the highest you got for Indiscreet was 7.2. Granted I did my Grant page years ago….and I guess the scores could have gone down…but that seems like too much of a drop. Good comment as always…..I need to check out your latest videos. Thanks for stopping by.
Hey Bob…it is a shame that during her peak…that she was banished from Hollywood…we movie fans probably missed many classic Bergman movies…if she would have stayed in Hollywood during that 7 year banishment. Casablanca is one of the highest scoring movies in my database…..so I am thinking Ms. Bergman is almost alone in her thinking. Cary Grant was one of the few to stand by her….which is one of the reasons he picked up her 2nd Oscar for her. Too bad they did not make a third movie together. Good information as always.
BRUCE/MISCELLANEOUS:
1 DENZEL
It would be great if as you predict he has a really big grosser over the coming few years. Terrific though his success has been generally he is currently for sure living George Clooney’s dream of “being remembered for more than just one summer’s blockbuster.”
2 WARNERS LEDGERS/REAGAN
The raw material is fascinating but you always apply your own treatment and interpretation to such material and that’s what I eagerly await. Reagan would have a NEW page which would greatly interest me and others so why not nudge Ronnie up to the top of the pile ?
3 INGRID
Steve’s video does not say when Ingrid made the opening statement in his presentation but if it was in later years possibly the diabolical way in which Hollywood treated her with Ed Sullivan for example blocking her from his show has in retrospect soured Ingrid’s attitude to her earlier Tinseltown successes and added a touch of inflated nostalgia to the ‘art’ films she made during her ‘exile’ and even later.
Or maybe she’s right and we’re wrong -. she must have known SOMETHING about the artistic elements of movies !! Also performers quite often are looking for different things in their own movies from that which the general public or even the critics see. In articles where I’ve seen Brando discuss his movies he does not go overboard about Godpop but seems to have been most satisfied with his work in Burn (1969)
Anyway the good news is that
(1) Fine tuning could be all that is being argued about as you give most of Ingrid’s ‘art films’ fine critic/audience markings with the 1978 Autumn Sonata even ranked 3rd [and Bud’s Burn a high 10th in your Brando table]
(2) I seem to be moving closer to you in transferring Cary from the Bad Guy to Good Guy column so let cynics like Lensman make all the cracks that they want ! Actually Steve Allen was another high profile celeb who went into Ingrid’s corner and castigated her critics by emphasising your creed and mine that artistic abilities should not be judged through “the prism of one’s personal life.” Ironically Ingrid’s so called ‘scandalous’ conduct would hardly cause an eyebrow to bat today, and indeed behaviour perceived as truly bad nowadays often makes a celeb into a bigger star than before courtesy of the gossip mags.
BOB
Hey Bob.
1. I predict Denzel will have that smash….but I also think it will be in a supporting role…..like Robert Redford in Captain America 2…..Denzel is getting up there in age….if actresses have the 39 cliff….actors have the 59 cliff…and he is already pass that.
2. You will be happy to know Ronnie will be the next new page….I am about 80% done with the research.
3. Not sure about her comments…..almost seems like a quote designed to get a reaction. So Brando thought he was better in Burn than The Godfather….I think a Hitchcock quote is needed….the one where he compared actors to cattle.
4. Glad to have you on the good side of Cary.
Thanks for the feedback.
I am trying to find the Ingrid Bergman movie, she is a
missionary in China–with children
??Inn of the 7th heaven??
Hey Dorothy…The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is the movie you seek.