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ingrid bergman continued She's paid dearly, but Ingrid has emerged
becoming increasingly aware of a sense of artistic stagnation. "I was tired of making the same kind of pictures," she said recently. "I wanted to be in a movie about real people in a real world. But in Hollywood they all said that, when the housewife is through washing dishes, she doesn't go to the movies to see someone else washing dishes. I thought maybe they were right."
On top of it, her last two pictures, "Joan Of Arc" and Arch Of Triumph," were both critical and box-office failures, although her earlier Broadway portrayal of Joan in Maxwell Anderson's stage play had been singled out by the Drama League of New York as the season's "most distinguished performance."
But all of these factors combined are hardly sufficient explanation for the violent climax toward which Ingrid was building with dramatic inevitability. For Ingrid was to live a story more poignant and dramatic than any of the fictional
ones she had played on either the screen or on the stage.
There is one exception to this — the story of Saint Joan. The heroic figure of the peasant girl from Domremy seems to have obsessed Ingrid as it has obsessed playwrights and novelists through the centuries from Shakespeare, Voltaire and Schiller to Bernard Shaw and Maxwell Anderson. For, aside from her portrayals of Joan on Broadway and in Hollywood, Ingrid has recently again appeared all over Europe in an operatic version of the story, "Saint Joan At The Stake," directed by Rossellini, with music by Arthur Honegger.
Is it merely accidental that she should have returned to Joan three times within the space of eight years? Or is there, perhaps, an unconscious identification of herself with Joan, the forthright, honest, warm-hearted peasant maid who died at the stake for defying church and society?
Ingrid may not be aware of any such identification, and she certainly has no illusions as to the puniness of her own
THE NIGHT DOES STRANGE THINGS": Ingrid will soon be seen with Mel Ferrer in this Warner release. She's now in "Anastasia."
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