Ingrid Bergman's Secret Double Life

5 years after ingred bergman's death one of her secret lovers came forward and his identity shocked Hollywood to its core ingred Bergman was Hollywood's saintly good girl but nothing could be further from the truth her explosive affair with Roberto rosolini turned an entire nation against her even after her death sworded secrets from bergman's past kept surfacing and threatened to ruin her Legacy forever born on August 29th 1915 in Stockholm her mother died when she was just 2 years old leaving her father Justice to raise her on his own he was a talented painter and photographer and from a very young age ingred became used to posing in front of the camera just as Bergman had lofty dreams for his daughter he wanted her to be a star envisioning her as a future opera singer and putting her through three years of vocal lessons when her father sent her to a girl's school Bergman struggled to fit in she wasn't popular and didn't Stand Out academically soon loneliness began to creep in and it was only about to get worse when she was 14 her father died from stomach cancer a year after her father's passing Bergman put her love for acting into action and got a job as an extra for a movie studio she was astounded that she could actually make money and have fun at the same time for her it was a dream come true 2 years later she won a scholarship to the Royal dramatic theater school and stifled by the thought of another 5 years in school she made a decision that scandalized her teachers all she could think about was her joyous time at the movie studio and so when she finally landed a speaking role she took it without a second thought ignoring the advice of her teachers she was anxious to start living and more than anything her ambition ruled Supreme at the age of 21 Bergman made an interesting choice and married Peter Lindstrom a dentist it was easy to see why he fell so hard for Bergman she was young beautiful and driven he however provided her with a much needed sense of stability in 1938 Bergman welcomed her first child Pia but even with a stable film career in Sweden and and a balanced family life she longed for something more she always had her eye on the horizon forever lusting after the next great challenge in her case that was transitioning to American films in 1939 with only one suitcase clutched in her hand 24-year-old ingred Bergman arrived in Los Angeles excited to begin a new chapter Hollywood producer David O selnik had seen her performance in the Swedish film intermo and thought she'd be a perfect fit for the English remake Bergman although thrilled about this rare opportunity fully expected to be shipped back to her husband and baby after filming wrapped instead something very different came to pass her first American Film was a roaring success and the critics were enamored with this stunning newcomer after that there was no going back to Sweden she had arrived not knowing a lick of English and yet she'd managed to fly over every single hurdle Bergman soon realized that Hollywood wanted to take control of her image and change it entirely she refused to bend to the Studio's demands so many of the other starlets were so perect perfectly manufactured they were almost too perfect in staying true to herself Bergman was a breath of fresh air she had a natural look and in the beginning that Simplicity worked in her favor she was always the good girl or the country girl but with a fiery personality like bergman's these roles became boring in 1941 Bergman was supposed to play another soft feminine role in do Jackal and Mr Hyde but begged the studio to give her a chance to play The Naughty bid instead they granted her wish and Bergman was finally going to be a temptress however her seductive role went far beyond her onscreen performance behind the scenes something scandalous was a foot ingred Bergman wasn't opposed to getting her kicks outside of her marriage and throughout the 1940s she entertained passionate affairs with quite a number of directors and actors to begin with on the set of Dr Jackal and Mr Hyde Bergman and Spencer Tracy embarked on a brief fling but this was only the beginning while Bergman was off living her dream in Hollywood she still had a family back at home her husband and Pia eventually followed her to America first first settling in New York and then San Francisco when she could Bergman would find time for them between jobs however as time passed it became clear that she lived a centilating double life one that was destined to rip her family apart her husband had no affinity for the tinsel glamour of Hollywood and began to resent his wife's profession for its super speciality to him as bergman's career soared the more Vain and self-obsessed she became she was a free spirit while Lindstrom was terribly rigid and Frugal however when he found out about her incessant cheating he wasn't about to go chasing after a divorce his wife was making bank and the money kept pouring in as the stalwart head of the home he helped steer her career and delegated her finances with her husband's indifference Bergman was free to break some high-profile hearts and her career was about to Skyrocket in 1942 Bergman landed her most infamous role yet Elsa and Casablanca starring opposite Humphrey Bogart however despite it becoming one of the most laed films ever made it was never one of bergman's favorites the next year she starred in For Whom the Bell Tolls when Ernest Hemingway's novel was sold to Paramount Pictures Hemingway himself gave one explicit directive he said Miss Bergman and no one else should play the part she snagged an Academy Award nomination for her performance and the Heart of the leading man Gary Cooper it really seemed like Bergman kept her heart tucked away and Gary Cooper certainly learned this the hard way he fell head over heels for her during filming but their brief affair was never made to go the distance later Cooper said no one loved me more than ingred Bergman but the day after filming concluded I couldn't even get her on the phone she was Elusive and enchanting but the disappointed hopes she left in her wake were a mere preview of the Scandal to come of all the roles Bergman lusted after Jon of Arc was at the top of the list something about that self- assured character truly resonated with her and it became her Ultimate Dream part however there was just one problem nobody was making a film about Joon of AR in 1946 however the hopeful actress hit a stroke of luck when she starred in Joan of Lorraine at New York's Alvin theater the unprecedented success of the play was a stepping stone to fulfilling one of her greatest wishes her fantastic performance on Broadway did indeed win her the role in 1948's Jon of Arc she devoted everything to the production even her own money but sadly it all ended in disappointment although the academy nominated her for her performance she found herself embroiled in a scandal ingred bergman's descent into disgrace began innocently enough growing tired of her life in Hollywood and her lackluster marriage Bergman was on the lookout for her next great adventure that's when she discovered Italian director Roberto rosalini's work and fell in love in watching his film open City she would witnessed true Artistry and raptured by rosolini she wrote him a letter that changed her life Bergman reached out to rosolini at the peak of her career and her letter ended with a clear declaration she wanted to make a film with him after leaving for Italy ingred Bergman wouldn't return to Hollywood or her family for years when she arrived in Italy in 1949 her life changed forever Roberto rosalini's process was different from that of Hollywood directors with him all the rules went out the window for her first film with him strong buy the leading man wasn't even a trained actor he was originally just part of the crew when it came to Bergman herself rosolini didn't care about what shot made her look the most beautiful he chose whatever angle he desired so much about working in Italy was a challenge for Bergman but that was exactly why she loved it so much rosolini was vibrant and free and before she knew it Bergman had fallen in love she was no stranger to Affairs but her love for Roberto rosolini was a whole different story still married to Lindstrom Bergman went ahead and had a child with her Italian director when the Press caught wind of the illegitimate child they had a field day just like that Bergman and rosolini quickly became a Hollywood Scandal bergman's unabashed infidelity turned audiences against her the public felt betrayed everyone believed that ingred Bergman was the ultimate good girl making her behavior all the more shocking even American politicians became involved with Senator Edwin C Johnson stating under the law no alien guilty of turpitude can set foot on American soil again he even called her a powerful influence for evil because Bergman was a foreigner and an immoral Foreigner at that her bad behavior only fueled America's disdain for immigrants she however was more than ready to cut ties with Hollywood it's safe to say that bergman's daughter Pia endured the brunt of her mother's absence With an Ocean between them Pia could only read about her mother in the paper and when Bergman finally secured a divorce from Lindstrom she threw herself into putting down fresh roots and cultivating a h life that didn't include her first born the desertion was real and to add insult to injury it became clear that Bergman adored her new life she devoted herself to rosalini and her growing brood first came a boy named rato followed by twin girls in 1952 Isabella and esot Ingrid she continued with her busy acting schedule until one desperate situation called for her to make a sacrifice her daughter Isabella suffered from scoliosis and required a serious operation the recovery was long and arduous and so for her daughter's sake Bergman gave up acting for two full years in order to care for her meanwhile her initial Zeal for rosalini's Avant guard film making began to waver used to the celebrity of Hollywood she began to feel discouraged by the bad reviews when rosolini came up with a plan to tour Europe with the play Jonah Arc at the stake Bergman felt ready for a comeback but her hopes never came to fruition like many of rosalini's avant guard Pursuits the play wasn't a money maker before long cracks began to form in their marriage rosolini was extremely possessive up until 1956 he'd kept the actress under lock and key only he could direct her finally however he gave her an inch of freedom and allowed her to travel to France where she starred and Paris does strange things for Bergman her marriage to rosolini truly fell apart after he dealt her a betrayal he cheated on her with the screenwriter sonali Das Gupta after that there was no way to salvage their relationship rosolini didn't waste any time before the year was up he'd already eloped with his new girlfriend around the same time that her marriage began to falter Bergman got the chance for a second crack at Hollywood she'd been gone for a whopping s years but executive producer buddy Adler envisioned her for the lead role in the 20th Century Fox film Anastasia it was the kind of role she'd become famous for good and Pious and she managed to capture the hearts of the American people once again it was a sensational comeback and because of Anastasia she even snagged her second Academy Award for Bergman this marked a new beginning in 1958 bergman's agent introduced her to her next great love Lars Schmidt [Applause] Schmidt was gloriously wealthy his family flourishing in the shipping business while he himself was a theatrical entrepreneur when he met Bergman they hit it off immediately and in December of that year they tied the knot bergman's children ended up staying with their father in Italy while she jetted off to France to live with her new husband separated from her children she managed to sustain her longest marriage yet she and Schmidt stayed together for almost two decades before infidelity eventually destroyed them by that time however Bergman had an even greater battle to fight in 1974 she made a horrifying Discovery a lump in her left breast doctors advised her to seek treatment immediately but the stubborn actress had other plans never one for self-pity she continued working through her cancer diagnosis she endured a couple of operations and suffered through trying rounds of chemotherapy however the Outlook was Bleak by 1981 cancer had ravaged her body it had reached her spine causing her 12th vertebrae to collapse it was also in her lungs and now only one of them barely functioned on August 29th 1982 ingred Bergman died at the age of 67 with her ex-husband Lars Schmidt by her [Music] side however even in death she managed to spark a scandal 5 years after her death news of one of bergman's secret Affairs came to light in an interview Gregory peek made a shocking confession on the set of 1945's spellbound he and Bergman had an affair but Peg wasn't the only one to creep out of the woodwork in her autobiography Bergman spoke of all her ex-husbands with utter respect and even remained close friends with rosalini and Schmidt to the day she died however there was one man with an axe to grind one who still held a Grudge for the wife who abandoned him her first husband Peter Lindstrom he wanted the world to know the real ingred Bergman and didn't care if it threw a shadow across her Legacy in the biography as time goes by the life of ingred Bergman Lindstrom went on the record and revealed some of the brutal things his wife had said allegedly she told him I'm only interested in two kinds of people those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career Lindstrom didn't hold anything back and helped the biographer paint a very unappealing portrait of ingred [Music] Bergman and then to add insult to injury there were her vces according to the biography she drank and smoked and slept around with scores of men bergman's ex-husband certainly got his Petty Revenge even if the actress never lived to feel his wrath he condemned her for abandoning her children and for always prioritizing her career over her family but in the end no tell all could erase the fact that ingred Bergman was a formidable acting Talent undoubtedly one of the all-time great he's looking at you kid if you enjoyed this video please give it a like And subscribe for more videos

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