Being an orphan at age 13, Ingrid Bergman went from humble beginnings in Sweden, to become one of the world’s most glamorous film actors.
This August, in conjunction with her 100th birthday, a group of authors among which her daughter Isabela Rosellini released the pictorial biography: Ingrid Bergman – A Life in Pictures.
So take a look at some rare off-screen photos and beautiful vintage portraits of one the greatest film actress of the 20th century- Ingrid Bergman.
Bergman took this self-portrait with her father’s camera equipment at around t he age of 16. Photo:Collection, Wesleyan University
Bergman on her wedding day to Petter Lindström in Stöde, Sweden, on 10 July 1937. She would leave him for Roberto Rosselini in 1950. Photo:Collection, Wesleyan University
Portrait of Ingrid Bergmann
Ingrid Bergman surrounded by GIs in Berlin, 1945. Photo: Collection, Wesleyan University
On the set of Spellbound in Hollywood with Gregory Peck during a break in shooting, 1944. Photo: Collection, Wesleyan University
Sunbathing in a boat on Lake Mälaren just outside Stockholm, c.a 1932, when Bergman was around 18. Photo: Collection, Wesleyan University
Bergman and Roberto Rossellini on a weekend trip around the Amalfi coast. Photo: Collection, Wesleyan University
Portrait of Ingrid Bergmann
Royalty visits the dressing room at a performance of Shaw’s Captain Brassbound’s Conversion in London in the 1970s.
