Through the 1940s, this Swedish import was the American movie industry’s go-to gal for noble heroines: Joan of Arc, a tubercular nun and of course Ilsa in Casablanca. In 1949, she went off to Italy to make a little art movie — and a lot of whoopee — with director Roberto Rossellini, deserting her husband and Hollywood in the process. It was the domestic melodrama that the film establishment publicly condemned but secretly loved. So when Bergman and Rossellini split, and she starred as the would-be princess of the Romanoffs in 1956’s Anastasia, Hollywood welcomed her back with tears of forgiveness and an Oscar for Best Actress.
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