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Article: Ingrid: Ingrid Bergman, A Personal Biography.(Book review)
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- The Saturday Evening Post
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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Ingrid: Ingrid Bergman, A Personal Biography
by Charlotte Chandler, 334 pages, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, $16.95
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When filmmaker David O. Selz nick first met Ingrid Bergman, he asked her to take off her shoes. "It isn't any use," she told him. "My shoes are flat!"
"They didn't expect me to be so tall," the Swedish actress admitted years later, recalling her arrival in Hollywood to star in the movie Intermezzo. Bergman had other drawbacks as well. Her English was minimal, her eyebrows were too thick, and her name was too German. That she was married to a dentist wasn't exactly thrilling, either. On the other ...