Intermezzo (1939)is the brilliant American adaptation of the Swedish film by the same name.
Ingrid Bergman made her English-speaking film debut in the romantic tear-jerker, "Intermezzo." She plays Anita, a young pianist who gives piano lessons to the daughter of a famous violinist, Holger Brandt (Leslie Howard).
The most impressive part of the film is the beautiful music (Intermezzo) around which the story is built.
Her most notable films include Intermezzo (1939), Casablanca (1942), Notorious (1946), Stromboli (1950) and, with director Ingmar Bergman, Autumn Sonata (1978).
She also won an Emmy Award (1982) for her portrayal of Golda Meir in a made-for-television film Golda.
See her autobiography (1980) and L. Quirk, Films of Ingrid Bergman (1970).
In 1939, she moved to Hollywood to film the remake of "Intermezzo."
Her affair and consequent marriage with director Roberto Rossellini during the making of the 1949 film "Stromboli" sparked controversy and outrage in the United States, and she remained in Italy for the next six years, working with her new husband on five films.
In 1942, she began filming both Ernest Hemingway’s "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and the perennial classic, "Casablanca."
"Ingrid Bergman: The Swedish Films" Series continues w/1936 drama Intermezzo, starring Bergman, in the Swedish version of the 1939 American hit, as a piano teacher who revives the marriage between a famous violinist and his wife–Swedish and German; Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave.
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One of the greatest love stories ever made, Intermezzo is the film that launched the Hollywood career of Ingrid Bergman.
Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939) (USA: promotional title)
Anita realizes, as she says "I have been an intermezzo in his life." She wins the scholarship and decides to accept it and with much sorrow she leaves him.
She had completed 11 Swedish films when producer David O. Selznick invited her to come to Hollywood to reprise her role in the American version of her biggest hit, Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939) opposite Leslie Howard.
Once signed, she came to California and starred in MGM's 1939 remake of her 1936 film, Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939), reprising her original role.
After several films that year that established her as a class actress, Ingrid appeared in Intermezzo (1936/I) as Anita Hoffman.
A star in Swedish&; French, German, Italian, and British films before emigrating to the United States to star in Intermezzo in 1939, Ingrid Bergman, with her Nordic freshness and vitality, coupled with her beauty and intelligence, quickly became the ideal of American womanhood and one of Hollywood& most popular stars.
When David Selznick saw a print of Bergman in the Swedish film, he was unimpressed, but he was persuaded by Katharine Brown, his story-buyer, that the proposed American remake of Intermezzo would only be successful with Ingrid in the role of the pianist.
Film critic James Agee wrote that "Miss Bergman not only bears a startling resemblance to an imaginable human being; she really knows how to act, in a blend of poetic grace with quiet realism." Selznick exercised his option for the extended contract and recalled her from Sweden.
When David Selznick saw a print of Bergman in the Swedish film, he was unimpressed, but he was persuaded by Katharine Brown, his story-buyer, that the proposed American remake of Intermezzo would only be successful with Ingrid in the role of the pianist.
When Intermezzo, A Love Story, also starring Leslie Howard, was released in 1939, Hollywood saw an actress who was completely natural in style as well as lack of makeup.
Film critic James Agee wrote that "Miss Bergman not only bears a startling resemblance to an imaginable human being; she really knows how to act, in a blend of poetic grace with quiet realism." Selznick exercised his option for the extended contract and recalled her from Sweden.
Selznick's ability to recognize talent and a good story led, inevitably, to what was for many years the highest grossing, most highly honored film of all time, "Gone With the Wind", which swept the 1939 Oscar ceremonies, netting Selznick a Best Picture Award as well as a specially presented Irving Thalberg Award.
The producer was responsible for bringing Swedish film star Ingrid Bergman to America and into the fold of his Selznick International film company (formed after a stormy parting with MGM in 1936), and produced the English version of "Intermezzo".
Selznick proved a deft hand with lighter fare as well, and was one of the film makers to best display the talents of actress and comedienne Carole Lombard, taking her from screwball comedies ("Nothing Sacred") to sweet romances ("Made For Each Other", with James Stewart).
Bergman was signed to her first Hollywood studio contract by American film mogul David O. Selznik in 1939, her first release an American remake of "Intermezzo".
Bergman's subsequent films with her husband received similar response, and by the middle 1950s, the Rossellinis had 3 children (twin daughters Isabella and Isotta were born in 1952) and were facing financial ruin.
Bergman shortly before she gave birth to Rossellini's son, Roberto, and while she wed her director, the allegations of immorality and furor over Rossellini's political history led "Stromboli" to be banned and boycotted in America and conservative areas of Europe.
She had completed 11 Swedish films when producer David O. Selznick invited her to come to Hollywood to reprise her role in the American version of her biggest hit, Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939) opposite Leslie Howard.
The film's critical and commercial success instantly established Bergman as a star, and she appeared in Adam Had Four Sons, Rage in Heaven and Dr.
Radiant, almost ethereally beautiful Swedish actress, forever immortalized as Ilsa Lund, the star-crossed heroine of Casablanca (1942), to whom Humphrey Bogart's Rick utters the deathless line, "Here's looking at you, kid." A former student at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater School, she became a leading lady immediately upon entering Sweden's film industry in 1934.
Toland recieved numerous nominations for best cinematography (Misérables, Les (1934), Dead End (1937), Intermezzo (1939), Long Voyage Home, The (1940), Citizen Kane (1941)), he eventually won the Oscar for Wuthering Heights (1939)
With his keen interest in camera work and immense creativity, he was a first cameraman by age 27 -- the youngest in Hollywood at the time.
Before Kane, Toland worked with such directors as John Ford on "The Grapes of Wrath" and William Wyler on "Wuthering Heights" (for which he won his only Oscar.) Other notable works include Wyler's "The Best Years of Our Lives", Ford's "The Long Voyage Home", and Disney's "Song of the South".
After a dozen films in Sweden, Bergman was signed by MGM to star in the remake of Intermezzo (1939).
After completing a few pictures in Sweden and appearing in three successful films in the United States, Bergman joined Humphrey Bogart in the 1942 classic film Casablanca.
She was cremated in Sweden, her ashes scattered with a part kept to be interred in the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.
Streamlined from 88 minutes to 70, the plot of Intermezzo was transferred intact to the 1939 American version of the same name, which served as Bergman's Hollywood debut.
The Swedish Intermezzo was the film that brought Ingrid Bergman to the attention of Hollywood.
Ekman leaves his wife to live with Bergman and to tour with her on the concert circuit.
Amblers Meisterwerk und Vorlage für den ersten Film der "Crime-Night" ist sein 1939 erschienener Roman "Die Maske des Dimitrios", in dem sich ein englischer Kriminalautor auf die Spuren des berühmten Meisterspions und Mörders Dimitrios begibt und feststellen muss, dass der tot geglaubte Gangster immer noch sehr lebendig und sehr gefährlich ist.
Nach einem Hollywood-Intermezzo lebte und arbeitete Eric Ambler 16 Jahre in der Schweiz, bevor er nach England zurückkehrte, wo er am 22.
Schon in den 20er Jahren tourte Ambler als Jugendlicher mit seinen Eltern als "music-hall-comedian" durch England und schrieb nebenbei Theaterstücke.
Her most notable films include Intermezzo (1939), Casablanca (1942), Notorious (1946), Stromboli (1950) and, with director Ingmar Bergman, Autumn Sonata (1978).
See her autobiography (1980) and L. Quirk, Films of Ingrid Bergman (1970).
She also won an Emmy Award (1982) for her portrayal of Golda Meir in a made-for-television film Golda.
Bennett's film orchestrations include SHOW BOAT (1929), SHOW BOAT (1936), A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS (1937), JOY OF LIVING, VIVACIOUS LADY, CAREFREE and PACIFIC LINER (1938, largely uncredited), GUNGA DIN, THE STORY OF VERNON AND IRENE CASTLE and INTERMEZZO (all 1939, all uncredited), REBECCA (1940, uncredited), LADY IN THE DARK (1944), MY SON JOHN (1952), OKLAHOMA!
