Screenland (Nov 1939–Apr 1940)

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* WIN A . FREE TRIP * t« HOLLYWOOD! Sweden. Ingrid read them, was elated. She began going to newspaper, stands and asking for American film magazies. The reviews in the American magazines were all favorable, but Ingrid couldn't even get the current fan magazines. All the periodicals she picked up were old. They didn't review "Intermezzo." They didn't mention Ingrid Bergman. Her heart would have soared if she could have read Screenland's review of the picture ; if she could have seen our Honor Page, published way back last December. Screenland was one of the first to hail the new star. We said — remember ? — "To Leslie Howard's lovely new screen heroine in 'Intermezzo' — Ingrid Bergman — our highest award ! No mere intermezzo, though, this girl — she's a whole symphony of sensitive emotion and rare appeal." But just the newspaper reviews alone were enough to make her heart stand on tip-toe. So she came back to play "Joan of Arc," the part she always wanted to do on the stage. "I love all parts where you can find something human," she explained. "They make so many stories above, not beneath." (She meant they make many shallow stories, few stories with any real depth.) "I'd like to play comedies, tragedies, everything. I don't want only sympathetic parts. I should be glad to play women who are not good, too. I like to feel about a role. 'That's a woman I believe in.' " She has plenty of temperament, yet she is not temperamental. "Maybe I should throw flowers around, things like that," she said. "But I will save temperament for pictures. I do not exercise it in private life." She likes American ice-cream — says it comes in more flavors than foreign icecream and that all foreigners talk about it when they come back from America. "You should taste the wonderful American ice-cream," they tell each other. That's one of the things Ingrid told her friends back home. She also told them about her first trip to New York. She was supposed to come in to New York at eight o'clock in the morning. She was up at four, saw the Statue of Liberty, the New York skyline. "They were wonderful to see. So different from anything I had ever seen. In comparison with New York, Stockholm is a little town. It is big for us in Sweden, but it is small when you compare it with New York." She hardly knows what to say when people ask her about Hollywood. "I worked almost every day. The only thing I've seen is Selznick International. It's a small studio — like a family. Everyone is very friendly." She likes music, saw "La Boheme'' at the Metropolitan Opera House and was as excited about her first visit to the big opera house as any girl who loved music could be. She thinks visiting museums is exciting, too. Ingrid Bergman, incidentally, is her real name. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden, where her father was a portrait painter. When_ she was little, he painted Ingrid's portrait many times. Never before has there been a professional actress in the Bergman family. But her father was fond of the theater and of opera. And very early in her life the theater became the great absorbing passion of Ingrid's life. From her allowance, she saved as much as she could so she could go to the movies and to the theater. Without her love for the world of make-believe, hers would have been a lonely, possibly miserable childhood. "My mother died when I was two years old. I never really knew her, though I have her letters and her pictures, and feel as though I knew her. My father is dead, too. He died when I was thirteen. I was an only child. An only child must have some companionship. I had my theater. It was brother, sister, mother — everything to me. Always the theater was what I wanted. But it takes years and years to get big parts. I was in a hurry to get the biggest parts ! I thought it an idea to go into movies to make yourself a name." For eleven years she attended the Lyceum for Flickor, a famous 'Swedish school for girls. Later, she attended the Royal _ Dramatic Theater School for a short time ; was then discovered by a talent scout and cast in a small part in a Swedish picture. Within a few years, she made eleven Swedish pictures. She was a star in nine of them. She loves both the theater and the movies, and would still like to find time for both. "It needs an actress for both and that is what I should like to be — an actress." About three years ago, she met her husband through mutual friends. He is a blond, like Ingrid, and like Ingrid, his hair photographs dark. There was nothing extraordinary about the romance. "We didn't meet in any unusual way. It just was. It was real." She hopes that her husband will be able to join her in America for at least a few months. Whenever she has the opportunity between pictures, she will join hi m in Sweden, if European conditions permit. She does not believe that it is hard to make a success of both a career and a marriage, even a long-distance marriage, if you know where your heart island Ingrid's heart is with her husband and her baby. She knows how to win friends and influence people. She just does it by being herself. She is charmingly simple and simply charming. Talking of Sweden, she said to me, "All the people there have light hair — as light as mine or even lighter." Then she looked at me and a smile played over her gentle mouth. She said, "There are no people there with hair as dark_ as yours. You would be very popular in Sweden." She has never met Greta Garbo. Ingrid has never said in so many words, "I tank I go home," but when "Intermezzo" was finished, she went home. "I can understand very well how Garbo felt if she ever said that. Sweden is such a wonderful country. People like it, too. When you say you are from Sweden, they smile in a friendly way." Of course they do. 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