Article: INGRID BERGMAN APPROACHED LIFE IN FRANK, STRAIGHTFORWARD MANNER.(Lifestyle)(Review)

Upon meeting Ingrid Bergman, George Bernard Shaw asked the Swedish actress why she had never done his play ``St. Joan.''

Bergman told the great playwright, then 93, that she didn't like his play. ``You gave us Shaw's Joan, not the Joan of history,'' she replied.

This refreshing honesty was a key ingredient in the star's appeal, as Donald Spoto reveals in ``Notorious.'' But, as Spoto's biography makes clear, Bergman's frankness also contributed to her fall from grace in Hollywood in the late 1940s.

The actress was ostracized for having an affair and child with Italian director Roberto Rossellini while still married to another man. A top ...

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