"When
Ingrid Bergman arrived in Hollywood in 1939, she was already a celebrity in her native Sweden. With a radiant, cherubic face and quiet intelligence, the 24-year-old wasn’t exactly a carbon copy of glamorous stars like Bette Davis and Vivian Leigh, who were dominating the box office at the time, but she knew what type of actor she wanted to be. She had been spotted by Hollywood mogul David O Selznick, and although she accepted his invitation to come to the US, she refused to change her name or swap her natural beauty for a studio makeover. Throughout her five-decade career, Bergman remained fiercely independent, even as she was typecast as an unassailable 'good girl' in her movies. When, in the 1950s, she was banished from Hollywood and the United States for her affair with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini, she pivoted to European cinema, appearing in some of the best movies of her career. ..."
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