Internationally renowned actress Ingrid Bergman was of Swedish and German descent, though she was known by the majority as Swedish. Three times an Oscar recipient, especially known for Casablanca, Murder on the Orient Express, Gaslight, Notorious, and Anastasia, she is considered one of the greatest actresses of all time. Though she hailed from Europe, she also had relatives in the United States. Ingrid kept in close contact with her aunt Blenda, her father’s sister, as well as Blenda’s son Carl and grandson Norman. Ingrid and Norman exchanged letters and met in different locations throughout the USA, France, and England. This book chronicles her relationship with her American relatives through original letters and recollections of Ingrid’s American cousin Norman.
Smit studies the woman behind the public image as a natural, wholesome, even saintly person, an image carefully crafted by Bergman's first producer David O. Selznick. Bergman hid behind that image to live her life on her own terms. That life included three difficult marriages, numerous lovers, and a major scandal that stained her reputation but which she survived by creating her own legend. Bergman was filled with contradictions: she was dependent upon men and chafed under their control; she loved her children but constantly left them to perform; she longed for romance but walked away from her affairs without looking back; she desired to make great films but settled for being an entertainer; she hated the scrutiny of the media but learned to charm reporters. The author also assesses Bergman's artistry--her star qualities and her acting skills. She did her best work in Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious, Roberto Rossellini's Voyage in Italy, and Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata. Her life and image were the inspiration for these films in the first place.
Nelson Mandela brought the poetry of Ingrid Jonker to the attention of South Africa and the wider world when he read her poem "Die kind" (The Child) at the opening of South Africa's first democratic parliament on May 24, 1994. Though Jonker was already a significant figure in South African literary circles, Mandela's reference contributed to a revival of interest in Jonker and her work that continues to this day. Viljoen's biography illuminates the brief and dramatic life of Jonker, who created a literary oeuvre—as searing in its intensity as it is brief—before taking her own life at the age of thirty-one. Jonker wrote against a background of escalating apartheid laws, violent repression of black political activists, and the banning of the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress. Viljoen tells the story of Ingrid Jonker in the political and cultural context of her time, provides sensitive insights into her poetry, and considers the reasons for the enduring fascination with her life and death. Her writings, her association with bohemian literary circles, and her identification with the oppressed brought her into conflict with her father, a politician in the white ruling party, and with other authority figures from her Afrikaner background. Her life and work demonstrate the difficulty and importance of artistic endeavor in a place of terrible conflict.
A novel about the life of German cabaret singer and film actress Ingrid Caven, who was once director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's star, and his wife, muse to Yves Saint Laurent, and a protege of Pierre Berge. Consisting of memories, mixing real and invented people and events, Ingrid Caven reveals the cold heart of the European counterculture of the 1970s, an era of celebrity glitz, cocaine-fueled excess, gay bathhouses, and young idealists-turned-terrorists. Ingrid Caven was an immediate bestseller in France, where it sold over 235,000 copies in its first year of publication. It has been translated into 18 languages. Jean-Jacques Schuhl is a Parisian dandy who lives with Ingrid Caven and who had not published a book for twenty years until this one.
Stuck in a veritable wonderland of her own, Ingrid decides it's time for a fresh start. She moves to New York where she meets and builds friendships with people who challenge her to become a better person. However, when someone from the past tries to ruin her happiness Ingrid seeks solace in a confidant only to be betrayed by them as well. Discouraged, Ingrid realizes that she must look for joy elsewhere and finds herself on a journey that teaches her more about life than she could have imagined.
Ingrid Pitt, icon of horror cinema: her life and career. Full cast and production credits, synopses, reviews and notes are offered for all of her film, stage and television appearances, along with a critical listing of her novels and other published works. An analysis of Hammer Films' Karnstein Trilogy--of which Pitt's celebrated The Vampire Lovers (1970) was the first installment--is included, and also examined is the trilogy's original literary source, Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla." Other features are rare photographs and other movie-related graphics from every phase of the actress' career and a foreword by Ingrid Pitt herself.
Sie galt als die k hle Blonde aus Schweden, als Inbegriff f r Reinheit und ewige Treue. Auf Stromboli wurde diese Legende zerst rt, als sie eine Love-Story mit dem italienischen Regisseur Roberto Rossellini begann. Doch es gab auch andere Liebesaff ren im Leben der 1982 verstorbenen dreifachen Oscar-Preistr gerin Ingrid Bergman. Der "schwedische Schneeball," wie sie auch genannt wurde, brachte in Hollywood viele ber hmte M nner zum schmelzen. "Heilige und Verf hrerin" zeigt das andere Gesicht der sch nen Schwedin: Das Gesicht einer "Sklavin des Herzens", die nicht nur in dem Kultfilm "Casablanca" ihren Gef hlen folgte, sondern auch im wirklichen Leben, einem st rmischen Leben, immer auf der Suche nach der wahren Liebe war. Die Heilige, f r die sie viele nach der Johanna-von-Orleans-Verfilmung hielten, war sie nie. Dazu liebte sie das Leben und den Film zu sehr. Ihr Leben war wie ein Film und mit dieser Legende sind die Namen vieler ber hmter M nner (Schauspieler, Regisseure, Schriftsteller, Fotografen) eng verkn pft. Deutsche Tagespost W rzburg: "Schaake geht auf die menschlichen, ehelichen und beruflichen Konflikte im Leben der Ingrid Bergman ein. Er bleibt aber immer distanziert, auch wenn er sehr private Dinge schildert...Man merkt bei der Lekt re, dass ein Profi am Werk war, der schreiben, der formulieren, der darbieten kann...Man erkennt die Bergman, wie sie sich im Gespr ch darstellt...denn sie war ein Ph nomen f r Hollywood und sie ist ein St ck Filmgeschichte..." Reutlinger Wochenblatt: "Die Biografie der weltber hmten Schauspielerin: Erich Schaake erz hlt die Geschichte ihres aufregenden Lebens. Nach jahrelangen und sorgf ltigen Recherchen legt er einen eindrucksvollen Bericht vor, der sich spannend liest wie ein Roman."
Ingrid goes to her Grandparents for Christmas and has a great time visiting with family, friends and neighbors. She excels on a snowy adventure too. Christian family fun reading up to 2nd Grade. Join us
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Here are all 13 songs from Ingrid's fifth CD, including the hit single "Ghost" and: Black and Blue * Blood Brothers * Do It Now * End of the World * Fire * How We Love * I'm Through * In the Sea * Keep Warm * Palm of Your Hand * Ribbons * This Is War. Also features a great intro and photos.
