"be seen on the DVD. Since the film's release, the filmmakers have been criticised for casting Ingrid Bergman, a tall woman with a Swedish accent, as Gladys Aylward, who was in fact short and had a cockney accent. Likewise, the two male leads, British actor Robert Donat and Austrian actor Curt Jurgens were not even Chinese (though Jurgens' character is said to be half-Dutch). Singer Bill Elliott sang the hit song The Inn of the Sixth Happiness with the Cyril Stapleton Orchestra. The film was based on the biography ""The Small Woman"" (1957) by Alan Burgess. The real Gladys Aylward"
"the Sixth Happiness"" starring Ingrid Bergman playing the role of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary to China in the 1930s who is caught up in the Japanese invasion. Bertschinger thought: “I could do that. That's what I want to do.” She graduated from Brunel University with an MSc degree in Medical Anthropology in 1997. Bertschinger is a Buddhist, practising Nichiren Buddhism. She became a member of the global Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai International in 1994. Her autobiographical book, ""Moving Mountains"", was published in 2005. The book describes her global experiences and her spiritual motivation that led her to Buddhism. Part"
"secondary school, formerly known as ""Weir Hall and Huxley"", was renamed the Gladys Aylward School shortly after her death. There is a blue commemorative plaque on the house where Gladys lived near the school in Cheddington Road, London N18. Numerous books, short stories and films have been developed about the life and work of Gladys Aylward (""listed below""). Gladys Aylward Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a British-born evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book ""The Small Woman"", by Alan Burgess, published in 1957, and made into the film ""The"
"which Aylward lived, died before the film was released. The musical score was composed and conducted by Malcolm Arnold. The cinematography was by Freddie Young. The film was shot in Snowdonia, North Wales. Most of the children in the film were Chinese children from Liverpool, home to one of the oldest Chinese communities in Europe. The story begins with Aylward (Ingrid Bergman) being rejected as a potential missionary to China because of her lack of education. Dr. Robinson (Moultrie Kelsall), the senior missionary, feels sorry for her and secures her a position in the home of a veteran explorer with"
"Ingrid Bergman and Italian film director Roberto Rossellini. After completion of the film, during test screenings, ICM Partners—the agency representing Rossellini—immediately dropped her as a client. Furthermore, the nuns at the school in Rome that Rossellini attended in her youth called to say they were praying for her. Dennis Hopper was the biggest ""name"" in the film, having starred in ""Easy Rider"" (1969), while Kyle MacLachlan had played the central role in Lynch's critical and commercial failure ""Dune"" (1984), a science fiction epic based on the novel of the same name. MacLachlan later became a recurring collaborator with Lynch, who"
"Best Foreign Language Film. It was also nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Ingrid Bergman) and Best Original Screenplay. Autumn Sonata Autumn Sonata (, ) is a 1978 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and starring Ingrid Bergman (in her final film role), Liv Ullmann and Lena Nyman. It tells the story of a celebrated classical pianist who is confronted by her neglected daughter. All his films from this point, even those eventually shown in theatres, were television productions. It is generally well-regarded by critics. Eva (Liv Ullmann), wife of the village"
"Brink of Life Brink of Life, (, and known as So Close to Life in the UK) is a 1958 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman. Bergman won the Best Director Award and Andersson, Dahlbeck, Ornäs and Thulin won the Best Actress Award at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. Cecilia Ellius is admitted to a hospital after she has begun badly bleeding during her third month of pregnancy. She is accompanied by her husband, Anders. Before treatment, Cecilia asks Anders if he truly wants the child; Anders replies it is too late to have the discussion. Cecilia undergoes treatment;"
"Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in ""Casablanca"" (1942) and Alicia Huberman in ""Notorious"" (1946). Bergman was born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German mother and started her career as an actress in Swedish and German films in the 1930s. Her introduction to American audiences came with her"
"Autumn Sonata Autumn Sonata (, ) is a 1978 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and starring Ingrid Bergman (in her final film role), Liv Ullmann and Lena Nyman. It tells the story of a celebrated classical pianist who is confronted by her neglected daughter. All his films from this point, even those eventually shown in theatres, were television productions. It is generally well-regarded by critics. Eva (Liv Ullmann), wife of the village pastor, invites her mother Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman) for a visit to her village. She has not seen her for over seven years. Her mother"
"Edith Carlmar. The Wayward Girl (1959) The Wayward Girl is a 1959 Norwegian film directed by Edith Carlmar with a screenplay by Otto Carlmar and Niels Johan Rud. It marks the acting debut of Norwegian film actress Liv Ullmann who had previously appeared as an uncredited extra in Edith Carlmar's 1957 film ""Fools in the Mountain"". The film is about the affair between two young lovers, the uneducated and wild Gerd, and her bourgeois boyfriend, university student Anders who decides to run away with Gerd to continue their relationship when his parents disapprove of them. Anders (Atle Merton) is about"
"is often considered to be one of Bergman's greatest and most moving films. Grouchy, stubborn, and egotistical Professor Isak Borg is a widowed 78-year-old physician who specialized in bacteriology. Before specializing he served as general practitioner in rural Sweden. He sets out on a long car ride from Stockholm to Lund to be awarded the degree of Doctor Jubilaris 50 years after he received his doctorate from Lund University. He is accompanied by his pregnant daughter-in-law Marianne who does not much like her father-in-law and is planning to separate from her husband, Evald, Isak's only son, who does not want"
"Cries and Whispers Cries and Whispers () is a 1972 Swedish period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann. The film, set in a mansion at the end of the 19th century, is about three sisters and a servant who struggle with the terminal cancer of one of the sisters (Andersson). The servant (Sylwan) is close to her, while the other two sisters (Ullmann and Thulin) confront their emotional distance from each other. Inspired by Bergman's mother, Karin Åkerblom, and his vision of four women in a red"
"mainstream films including ""The Wild Geese"" (1978), ""Licensed to Love and Kill"" (1979), ""Nutcracker"" (1982), and her father's 1982 film ""Fanny and Alexander"". She also appeared as Swedish au pair Ingrid Svenson in seasons 2 and 4 of the British situation comedy ""Mind Your Language"". Anna Bergman Anna Bergman (born 5 May 1948 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a former Swedish actress. She is the daughter of film and theatre director Ingmar Bergman and choreographer-director Ellen Lundström, sister to Eva, Jan, and Mats Bergman (twin); and half-sister to Daniel Bergman and Linn Ullmann. Bergman mostly appeared as a performer in several"
"for Best Supporting Actress), and Daniel Day-Lewis (all three for Best Actor). Katharine Hepburn still holds the record, with four (all for Best Actress). Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in ""Casablanca"" (1942) and Alicia Huberman in ""Notorious"" (1946). Bergman was born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German"
"Dreams (1955 film) Dreams () is a 1955 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman. Susanne is the owner of a model agency in Stockholm. Doris, her most popular model, has an argument with her fiancé, Palle, just before she goes with Susanne to Gothenburg to be photographed in a new collection. In Gothenburg Doris meets an aging Consul, who sees in her a striking resemblance to his wife, now in a mental hospital. The Consul gratifies Doris’s desires for fine clothes and jewelry, and the two spend a strenuously exciting day together, until his daughter arrives and ruthlessly exposes"
"the official documents, is that the film was not suitable to the sexual morals of a minor in the Italian society, and the scene was considered to be shocking. The official document number is: 31260, it was signed on 20 April 1960 by Minister Domenico Magrì. Brink of Life Brink of Life, (, and known as So Close to Life in the UK) is a 1958 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman. Bergman won the Best Director Award and Andersson, Dahlbeck, Ornäs and Thulin won the Best Actress Award at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. Cecilia Ellius is admitted"
"cited ""Winter Light"" as his favorite among his films. The film has an 80% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 15 reviews. Winter Light Winter Light () is a 1963 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Bergman regulars Gunnar Björnstrand, Ingrid Thulin and Max von Sydow. The film follows Tomas Ericsson (Björnstrand), pastor of a small rural Swedish church, as he deals with an existential crisis and his Christianity. The film is the second in a series of thematically related films, following ""Through a Glass Darkly"" (1961) and followed by ""The Silence"" (1963), which is"
"in Europe. Among his productions there was ""Act of Love"" (1953) with Kirk Douglas, and ""The Deep Blue Sea"" (1955) with Vivien Leigh and Kenneth More. He also did the Paris-filmed ""Anastasia"" in 1956, starring Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner and Helen Hayes. The film was Bergman's first U.S. film after a seven-year absence from Hollywood, which she left after her scandalous affair with director Roberto Rossellini became news. The studio, Twentieth Century Fox, conducted a poll and found that the public still had negative feelings toward Bergman. Litvak, however, felt she would be an excellent actress for the part and"
"16th Golden Globe Awards The 16th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1958 films, were held on March 5, 1959. ""' David Niven – ""Separate Tables"" ""' Danny Kaye – ""Me and the Colonel"" ""' Susan Hayward – ""I Want to Live!"" ""' Rosalind Russell – ""Auntie Mame"" ""' Burl Ives – ""The Big Country"" ""' Hermione Gingold – ""Gigi"" ""' Vincente Minnelli – ""Gigi"" ""' ""The Defiant Ones"" ""' ""Gigi"" ""' ""Auntie Mame"" ""' ""Das Mädchen Rosemarie"" (West Germany) ""' ""L'Eau vive"" (France) ""' ""The Year Long Road"" (Yugoslavia) ""' ""A Night to Remember"" ""' ""The"
"1955 Oh... Rosalinda!! 1955 Richard III 1956 The Battle of the River Plate 1956 Sea Wife 1956 The High Terrace 1957 Hour of Decision 1957 Seven Thunders 1958 Harry Black 1959 The Devils Desciple 1960 Sink the Bismarck 1960 Cleopatra 1960 Peeping Tom 1961 The Valiant 1962 The Very Edge 1962 Vengeance 1962 H.M.S. Defiant 1963 The Leather Boys 1963 Hornblower 1965 The Bedford Incident 1965 Called in to assist in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines 1966. The Blue Max...Travelling mat expertise 1966 Binddle (One of Them Days) 1967 The Double Man 1968 The Lost Continent 1968 Midas"
"the use of red and replacing the film's classical music with modern songs, including Janis Joplin's ""Cry Baby"". Cries and Whispers Cries and Whispers () is a 1972 Swedish period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann. The film, set in a mansion at the end of the 19th century, is about three sisters and a servant who struggle with the terminal cancer of one of the sisters (Andersson). The servant (Sylwan) is close to her, while the other two sisters (Ullmann and Thulin) confront their emotional distance"
"14th Golden Globe Awards The 14th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1956 films, were held on February 28, 1957, at the Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles). Kirk Douglas - ""Lust for Life"" Ingrid Bergman - ""Anastasia"" Elia Kazan - ""Baby Doll"" Cantinflas - ""Around the World in 80 Days"" Deborah Kerr - ""The King and I"" ""Around the World in 80 Days"" directed by Michael Anderson ""The King and I"" directed by Walter Lang Earl Holliman - ""The Rainmaker"" Eileen Heckart - ""The Bad Seed"" Three way tie Three way tie Jacques Bergerac Taina Elg"
"in order to support her family, and eventually comes to terms with her situation; Carl Theodor Dreyer's ""Ordet"" (1955), centering on a family with a lack of faith, but with a son who believes that he is Jesus Christ and convinced that he is capable of performing miracles; Federico Fellini's ""Nights of Cabiria"" (1957), which deals with a prostitute's failed attempts to find love, her suffering and rejection; ""Wild Strawberries"" (1957), by Ingmar Bergman, whose narrative concerns an elderly medical doctor, who is also a professor, whose nightmares lead him to re-evaluate his life; and ""The 400 Blows"" (1959) by"
"with love. In 2008, Roger Ebert added the film to his Great Movies list, impressed by Nykvist's lighting and concluding ""we're struck by Bergman's deep concern that humans see the world as through a glass, darkly, and are unable to perceive its meaning"". In his ""2014 Movie Guide"", Leonard Maltin gave the film three and a half stars, describing it as a ""Moody, evocative story of insanity"". The film has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 19 reviews. The film won the 1962 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, marking the second year in a row Bergman"
"and its star, Victor Sjöström. Bergman continued to be productive for the next two decades. From the early 1960s, he spent much of his life on the island of Fårö, where he made several films. In the early 1960s he directed three films that explored the theme of faith and doubt in God, ""Through a Glass Darkly"" (""Såsom i en Spegel"", 1961), ""Winter Light"" (""Nattvardsgästerna"", 1962), and ""The Silence"" (""Tystnaden"", 1963). Critics created the notion that the common themes in these three films made them a trilogy or cinematic triptych. Bergman initially responded that he did not plan these three"
"(1978). Nyman co-starred with Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann in Ingmar Bergman's ""Autumn Sonata"" (1978). In 2004, Nyman received the royal medal Litteris et Artibus, and in 2006 she was the recipient of the Eugene O'Neill Award. Nyman died on 4 February 2011, aged 66, after a long battle with several illnesses including cancer, COPD and Guillain–Barré syndrome. Lena Nyman Anna Lena Elisabet Nyman (23 May 1944 – 4 February 2011) was a Swedish film and stage actress. Having had her first film roles in 1955, Nyman had a role in Vilgot Sjöman's ""491"" (1964) and got her breakthrough in"
"Indiscreet (1958 film) Indiscreet is a 1958 Technicolor British romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. An actress falls in love with a man she believes to be married, who is secretly concealing from her the fact that he has no wife. The film is based on the play ""Kind Sir"" by Norman Krasna. This was Grant's and Bergman's second film together, after Alfred Hitchcock's ""Notorious"" (1946), and was one of the first films to popularise artistic use of the technique of split screens. The film was remade for television in 1988 starring"
"Joan of Arc (1948 film) Joan of Arc is a 1948 American hagiographic epic film directed by Victor Fleming, and starring Ingrid Bergman as the French religious icon and war heroine. It was produced by Walter Wanger. It is based on Maxwell Anderson's successful Broadway play ""Joan of Lorraine"", which also starred Bergman, and was adapted for the screen by Anderson himself, in collaboration with Andrew Solt. It is the only film of an Anderson play for which the author himself wrote the film script (at least partially). Unlike the play ""Joan of Lorraine"", which is a drama that shows"
"The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (also known as The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent) is a 1958 film directed by Roger Corman. It starred Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot and June Kenney. Some Viking women go to sea, looking for their missing men, and encounter a giant dragon-like sea serpent. Corman was inspired to make the film after being impressed by a presentation from special effects experts Irving Block and Jack"
"The Wayward Girl (1959) The Wayward Girl is a 1959 Norwegian film directed by Edith Carlmar with a screenplay by Otto Carlmar and Niels Johan Rud. It marks the acting debut of Norwegian film actress Liv Ullmann who had previously appeared as an uncredited extra in Edith Carlmar's 1957 film ""Fools in the Mountain"". The film is about the affair between two young lovers, the uneducated and wild Gerd, and her bourgeois boyfriend, university student Anders who decides to run away with Gerd to continue their relationship when his parents disapprove of them. Anders (Atle Merton) is about to enter"
"Winter Light Winter Light () is a 1963 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Bergman regulars Gunnar Björnstrand, Ingrid Thulin and Max von Sydow. The film follows Tomas Ericsson (Björnstrand), pastor of a small rural Swedish church, as he deals with an existential crisis and his Christianity. The film is the second in a series of thematically related films, following ""Through a Glass Darkly"" (1961) and followed by ""The Silence"" (1963), which is sometimes considered a trilogy. In it, Bergman reconsidered ""Through a Glass Darkly""s argument that God is love, and repeated the prior film's"
"of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent"" was later featured in an episode of ""Mystery Science Theater 3000"". The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (also known as The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent) is a 1958 film directed by Roger Corman. It starred Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot and June Kenney. Some Viking women go to sea, looking for their missing men, and encounter"
"Order of St. Olav. In 2006, she received an honorary degree, dr. philos. honoris causa, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Liv Ullmann Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938) is a Norwegian actress and film director. She was one of the ""muses"" of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. Ullmann won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama in 1972 for the film ""The Emigrants"" (1971), and has been nominated for another four. In 2000, she was nominated for the Palme d'Or for her second directorial feature film, ""Faithless"". She has also received two BAFTA"