Ingrid Bergman

Object Details

Exhibition Label: During the 1940s, few could hope to match Ingrid Bergman’s popularity at the box office. Bergman was already a star in her native Sweden when she came to the United States in 1939 to make her Hollywood film debut in Intermezzo. She immediately captivated American audiences, who responded warmly to her luminous, natural beauty and the empathy she exuded on screen. Perhaps best remembered for her performance opposite Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1942), Bergman enjoyed a string of early successes, including Gaslight (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1944), The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945), and Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) and Notorious (1946). Ostracized in 1950 when her much-publicized extramarital affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini produced a child, Bergman did not resume her American film career until 1956, when her performance in Anastasia earned her another Oscar.; Karsh created this portrait on assignment for Life magazine in Hollywood.

Credit Line: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Estrellita Karsh in memory of Yousuf Karsh

1946

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image/Sheet: 33.7 × 26.3 cm (13 1/4 × 10 3/8"); Mount: 50.8 × 40.5 cm (20 × 15 15/16"); Mat (Karsh exhibit): 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22")

National Portrait Gallery

Topic: Ingrid Bergman: Female; Ingrid Bergman: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Theater; Ingrid Bergman: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie; Ingrid Bergman: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Television; Ingrid Bergman: Oscar; Portrait

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