Ingrid Bergman
"If you took acting away from me, I'd stop
breathing."
She was a 3 time Oscar winner, and also took home a Tony, but the Swedish born actress is much better known for the scandal she caused in 1949, when she left her husband and daughter behind, to marry Italian Director Roberto Rossellini. She had a son with him, 2 months before they were legally married, sending the world into a big ol' tiz.
The US Senate labeled her, "Hollywood's apostle of degradation." (That's rich) and an estimated 38,000 newspaper articles were written about the affair at the time. The marriage was annulled in 1958, and eventually the public opinion of her changed and she was allowed to return to America. Psh. Would you?
By 1974 she was living in London, and still acting in films and television. Also, for the last eight years of her life she battled cancer in both her breasts. A double whammy. She succumbed in her flat at 9 Cheyne Gardens, in the Chelsea district of London. It was August 29, 1982, her 67th birthday.
Her last role was as former Israeli leader Golda Meir in, "A Woman Called Golda," shown on Israeli television the night she died.
Her ashes were scattered off the coast of Sweden.
Trivia: The phrase "The earth moved," referring to lovemaking was coined by Ingrid, in "For Whom the Bell Tolls," with Gary (like a horse) Cooper.
DECEMBER 2001, Findadeath.com friend Kenny from Brooklyn writes in: Just though I would drop you another line as well as a tidbit......Though Ingrid Bergman coined the phrase "the earth moved" it actually came from Hemingway's Novel. Ernest hated all the movie adaptations of his books, though he was good friends with Gary Cooper and his wife. BUT THEN HEMINGWAY HATED JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING AT THE END OF HIS LIFE!!! As usual, keep up the great work.
More Trivia: Wanna see a picture of
Dummy Moore made up to look like Ingrid?
