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(1940s) Ingrid Bergman
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1940s Highlights
PEOPLE
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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Ingrid Bergman
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<p>(August 2, 1943)
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<p> Even without talent, Ingrid Bergman could bring something rare
to U.S. films. To cite one single asset which is hers almost
exclusively, her photographed flesh looks neither like a Crane
fixtures ad nor sponge rubber nor the combined efforts of a fashionable portraitist and
a rural mortician; it looks like flesh. Many people, since life
must go on, find this attractive, even when it surprises them
to see it on the screen. The same thing goes for her poise,
sincerity, reticence, sensitiveness and charm.
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<p> Also for talent, of which Miss Bergman has a lot. And she
knows how to use it. Hollywood's talented people have developed
marvelous skill in a tradition as rigid and elaborate as
Japanese dancing, and almost as remote from life. Miss Bergman
comes of a tradition in which an interest in realism, in the
huge and various wealth of actual life, is a natural to a good
actress as to a good novelist.
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<p> The U.S. will always like its great dancers and ritualists
with good reason. But its fondness for Miss Bergman indicates
as well, an appetite for the sudden lights, edged shades and
flexibilities of reality. As an actress, Miss Bergman has just
one basic rule: "Never speak a line which does not make sense
for the part." She is probably the best reader of lines in the
business just now; and it appears to pay.</p>
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