What did you think about Ingrid Bergman's blacklisting by Hollywood?

@Luzanne.

Жыл бұрын

Mostly I wonder what Bergman was thinking, if at all, in lying to Hedda Hopper? Not just lying but making (even more of) a fool of the country’s most publicly vitriolic citizen who championed hatred to run enemies out of the country. Bergman knew of Hopper’s contributions to the McCarthay Hearings and HUAC, conspiring to destroy Trumbo and chase Chaplin out of the country. Even if Bergman was honest with Hopper; she would have been persona non grata at that time. Boy oh boy though, actively damaging Hopper’s credibility and betraying her trust made what would have been a difficult time of judgment into an unmitigated nightmare of daily character assassinations. Of course, blacklisting is awful. The poor woman did not deserve. : I am simply curious as to the backstory for lying to Hopper, who had always been Bergman’s champion, when asked if she was pregnant. Bad strategy.

@brupic8968

11 ай бұрын

classic american craziness and hypocrisy.

A great actress and a marvelous lady.

So lucky these are being released

Dick Cavett is unequivocally the best host and interviewer of all time. It had to be said.

@MTMF.london

Жыл бұрын

Yes, He's witty, charming and very intelligent yet quite humble. Very few of the current talk-show hosts possess all these characters.

@cockeyedoptimista

Жыл бұрын

What? He's low, asking extremely blatant question, ugh, no!

@cockeyedoptimista

Жыл бұрын

@@MTMF.london Not humble! Fake humility to sneak his intrusive questions in!

@MTMF.london

Жыл бұрын

@@cockeyedoptimista Are you the same person who claimed he was asking "extremely blatant question" who is now claiming he's asking "intrusive questions"? Are you confused? Do you need meds? 🤪

@femmyfebelestari5736

10 ай бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍

Effortlessly charming. - What do I think about her blacklisting? I think that a lot of her Hollywood rivals must have hated her guts and were just oh-so-glad when it happened. But never mind; they are forgotten by now and she will never be.

@starwood213

Жыл бұрын

When u consider the private lives of many actors and actresses, Ingrid was treated harshly indeed.

@joanmcdermott6798

6 ай бұрын

Why would they have hated her guts?

She's so elegant, beautiful, lovely, real. Is she wearing Zero makeup? Just herself.

@joanmcdermott6798

6 ай бұрын

She was a natural beauty.

Ingrid's blacklisting was the reflection of times that were defined by hypocrisy. Some today who extoll the "good old days" in film and culture in general have, I believe, little sense of how various relatively recent eras' many restrictions would feel now, a time in which we enjoy (at least in this moment) greater freedom. Though how Ms Bergman's relationship with Roberto Rossellini evolved was of course more complicated than the actress' brief account here suggests, it was indeed one borne of artistic admiration. The most important thing in Ingrid's life was her work, and she had grown tired, as an artist, of the artificiality in Hollywood cinema; she saw in Rossellini's art a genuineness and starkness that she believed would challenge her as an actress. She was surprised, perhaps even somewhat disillusioned, as her professional and personal relationship with the director developed, but the roots of both sides of their association were based in Ingrid's great appreciation of the realism she saw in Roberto's art, so different from the slickness and artificiality of Hollywood film of the day. What she did, resulting in her condemnation and expulsion from both Hollywood and the US, was in no way worse than -- but, rather, quite mild in comparison with -- various "shenanigans" that had taken place in the US film community for decades. At first, she lied in an interview with Louella Parsons, the town's most powerful columnist, about what was unfolding in her personal life. As Ingrid says here, it seems that everyone, including actors known throughout the world, should be entitled to a private life. The machinery began to work against her, simply because the US film industry, then comprising powerful studios whose chief concern, naturally, was profit, couldn't risk offending a public that fueled the profits. The studios protected their "properties" -- if Ingrid had "cooperated," everything would have been swept under the rug or had a thick coat of varnish applied to it, as had been the case roughly fifteen years earlier, when Loretta Young "adopted" her own child, the result of a relationship with then married Clark Gable. I admire Ms Bergman's clear view of how things played out. The '50s could not have been an easy time for her.

@MTMF.london

Жыл бұрын

Even in those days of strict "morality and virtue" there were all sorts of things happening behind closed doors - both in Hollywood and in "ordinary" homes. She was vilified because, unlike most of them, she didn't hide - she was a typical Swede, upfront and honest - they hated her for it and punished her.

No one really compares with Ingrid Bergman.

@eugeniaolivieri1326

22 күн бұрын

Sure! ❤❤

Remember, the same type that condemned her for having a child out of wedlock are the same kind that want you to keep the baby. Yes, they will DAMN YOU if you do or don't.

WOW. What an extraordinary woman Ingrid was. Nothing like her power, stage & Screen presence ever since. Missed dearly, as unfortunately Hollywood are so preoccupied with making either Woke nonsense or glorified Commercials for Toy Figures. What an age Ingrid was part of. True Cinema.

@Trombonology

Жыл бұрын

Please define "Woke nonsense." ... or even just _woke_ .

@cockeyedoptimista

Жыл бұрын

@@Trombonology Liberal, thoughtless, politically correct rot.

Mirror image of her daughter. Crazy

Wonderful woman.

Beautiful woman😊😊😊❤❤❤

Cavett: "Um, forgive this, seems like probing you too much, but ...": then proceeds with question, like that makes it okay. And isn't even clear what he's asking her: so indirect that she has to clarify what the heck he's asking. Good grief.

God certainly has a warped sense of humor when it comes to men!!! Imagine you marry Ingrid Bergman and one day you wake up, roll over and find yourself in bed with Benny Hill😂😅😮😢