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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 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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I have watched every film, made for TV films by Ms Bergman.
My favorite performances from her:
Autumn Sonata
Notorious
A woman called Golda
Casablanca
Europa 51
Stromboli
Gaslight
Under Capricorn
Cactus flower
Walking in the rain
Elena and her women
Inn of the sixth happiness
The bells of St Mary
Intermezzo (1936)
The human voice
The face of a woman
The turn of the screw
Ingrid Bergman is the # 22 most connectible actor of the 1940’s.
I have seen 15 Ingrid Bergman movies. The HIGHEST ranked movie I have seen is CASABLANCA while the LOWEST ranked movie I have seen is UNDER CAPRICORN. The highest ranked movie I’ve not seen is THE INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS. Favorites include CASABLANCA, THE BELLS OF ST. MARY’S, GASLIGHT, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, NOTORIOUS, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, ANATASIA, and CATCUS FLOWER. Other Bergman films I have seen are SPELLBOUND, JOAN OF ARC, INDISCREET, SARATOGA TRUNK, UNDER CAPRICORN, STROMBOLI, and GOODBYE AGAIN. Ingrid may have won her Oscars for GASLIGHT and ANATASIA but, for my money at the box office, Miss Bergman gave her best performance in THE BELLS OF ST. MARYS which was the sequel to GOING MY WAY and that is the movie I think she should have won an Oscar for. Again in my opinion, BELLS OF ST. MARY’S is a much better movie than GOING MY WAY. In 1943, Ingrid was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in FOR THE WHOM THE BELL TOLLS but I think she should have nominated for her performance in CASABLANCA instead. FOR THE WHOM THE BELL TOLLS is a good movie but CASABLANCA is a better and more memorable movie in my humble opinion. In closing, allow me to state that with the exception of STROMBOLI, I have never seen any of her foreign language films thus I can not comment on any of them at this time.
Hey Greg….thanks for a great comment on Ingrid Bergman. Hmmm…Under Capricorn deserves it’s lowest ranking…in my opinion. Inn of the Sixth Happiness…has very little happiness….it was a chore to get through that one…so I do not think you are missing anything. I have seen all of your favorites…with Casablanca, Notorious, Orient Express and Gaslight being on my Top 5. I did not enjoy Saratoga Trunk at all…actually I was very disappointed in it. Good thoughts on her roles and Oscar hopes. She won three Oscars…so I think it is safe to say the Oscar voters loved her…..of course they did turn their back on her when she had her scandal with being pregnant and not being married. Luckily, one of my favorties, Cary Grant never abandoned her. Good stuff.
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Just curiously. What role in Spartacus was Bergman considered for? The Jean Simmons role?
Seems odd casting.
Hey John…yep it was for the Jean Simmons part….lots of suggestions for that role…Bergman and Jeanne Moreau were the first choices before Simmons got the part. I agree it would have been odd casting.
POSTSCRIPT TO MY PREVIOUS POST
1 I didn’t at first notice that we now had a table of WW grosses for Ingrid – short but sweet and it showed that for the 8 films concerned the adjusted split was 59% domestic/41% overseas. That is a higher overseas ratio than we have seen in the case of most other Hollywood stars where WW grosses have been available.
2 Another actress who also enjoyed a good foreign ratio and in fact one that succeeded her domestic gross was Garbo. The split of the 20 Garbo movies for which Bruce could give us WW figures was 49% domestic/51% foreign. The coincidence is that both Garbo and Bergman are of course Swedish; but the downside for Greta is that her 20 WW grosses of about $3.7 billion in total didn’t match even the overall domestic grosses of Bergman’s Top 20 highest earners which came to just under $4.5 billion. I suppose though Great’s excuse could be that she didn’t have Cary grant as a mentor !