Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

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GODDESS IN SHADOW (Continued from page 65) They were confident that Miss Bergman was as good as their build-up. Their confidence was not misplaced. The reporters were unable to find any cracks at all in the shining armor. Then one editor, feeling that the man he'd assigned was simply too susceptible to some new brand of feminine charm, sent out a woman long familiar with the Hollywood scene to do the job. After talking to nearly everybody who'd had any contact with Miss Bergman — about 300 people — the writer arranged to meet the subject of her proposed article. "Tell me, Miss Bergman," she asked, "don't you have any faults?" "Of course, I do," Ingrid replied. "And what are they?" The writer poised her pencil eagerly. "I won't tell you," the actress replied with a jolly laugh. "They're dark, secret vices!" Afterward, the writer wrote the editor: "What are you going to do with a woman like that? Everybody says nothing but nice things about her. And now, darned if I'm not completely for her, too. My illusions are sort of restored." And then she went into a long paean of praise. Ingrid has generally been more popular with men than with women. Yet even women have had, up to now, a hard time finding real grounds for criticism. But they've tried. "You've got to hand it to her," one female cynic has said. "She manages to make all her faults appear to be virtues. For instance, she doesn't know the word "stingy" exists. She's replaced it with "thrifty." Look how she sent an old friend a bottle of cheap champagne and a single aspirin tablet for his birthday — with a note saying she hoped his celebration would be so festive he'd need the aspirin the next morning. Thoughtful, wasn't it? Clever, wasn't it? But think what she saved!" A studio secretary exclaimed dazedly not long ago. "The goddess is human after all!" She'd just overheard Miss Bergman express herself with a few minor cusswords after looking at some photographs which had been retouched. MODERN SCREEN • SPECIAL KiPD'E 5 HO* MICKEY J MOUSE "Couldn't you just change the program until we get the elephants past the theater?" "No, darling," the secretary's companion said, "she's still all goddess. She just can't conceive that someone might want to improve on her face." "She was absolutely right," a photographer defended hotly. "Take out one line and you spoil the characterization she's trying to convey." The cuss -words were unusual. So unusual that some people have accused her of being a prude: "Yoghurt every evening before she goes to bed. Quantities of milk. Never says anything naughty. The goodest girl in Sunday School, she is," has been heard. However, the truth is that in addition to all this, Ingrid Bergman has always enjoyed a cocktail or a glass of champagne or two. And since learning to smoke for Arch of Triumph, she smokes regularly. However, there's been something about her that's made everyone mind his manners in her presence. One widely-syndicated columnist noted for his brash approach visited Hollywood, asked to meet her and told the person taking him to be introduced, "Brother, let me warn you — I'm going to tell her a dirty story or two. She can't be as pure as everyone says she is." But when he met her, he became as tongue-tied and awed as any young lad first discovering love. divine inspiration . . . During the war years, all studio visitors were restricted to men in uniform. Ingrid Bergman was among those actors and actresses who were never too busy to meet them. Many of these men were on a longdeserved holiday — and full of the spirit of it, too. There was more than one who would call any actor or actress by first name, then proceed to make some crack. Few if any of them were intimidated by pre-knowledge of Ingrid Bergman's position in screen entertainment. But in her presence, somehow, they became as wellbehaved as little boys in church. The crew itself is vastly different on a Bergman set than on that of any other actress. Usually free-and-easy, they become, while working with her, men more cleanly shaved, neater in attire, and circumspect in language. None of her leading men has ever had a word to say against her. When one columnist intimated that Cary Grant had fallen in love with her, Cary and the other men in the cast and crew sent the columnist a note which read, "Of course, we're in love with Ingrid Bergman. All of us." Yet the one inescapable rumor any married actress must endure sooner or later, is that she's divorcing her husband. Ingrid, until the current field day in the press, had suffered perhaps less of this sort of thing than almost any other celebrity. 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