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Ingrid Bergman is best known for her role of Ilsa opposite Humphrey Bogart's Rick in Cassablanca. But, she could play a variety of roles, and even some comedy. In 1945 Bergman had starring roles in such various films as Saratoga playing a New Orleans vixen with Gary Cooper, in Hichcock's Spellbound as a pyschiatrist with Gregory Peck, opposite Bing Crosby as a nun in The Bells of St. Mary's. The next year, she played the extremely complex role of a woman who is bent on self destruction until she is redeemed by the love of a federal agent, played by Cary Grant, in Hitchcock's espionage thriller, Notorious. Ingrid Bergman won three Oscars - for Best Actress in Gaslight and Anastasia and Best Supporting Actress for Murder on the Orient Express.

Fun fact: Bergman was 5' 10" so she especially liked working with Gary Cooper - she didn't have to take off her shoes!

Check out Ingrid Bergman in Cactus Flower with Walter Matthau and Goldie Hawn, in her screen debut (which won her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar). In this farce, Matthau plays a dentist whose young girlfriend, Hawn, believes that he's married with children. When he finally agrees to leave his wife and marry his girlfriend, he runs into all kinds of problems. You see, he's not really married, but his girlfriend wants to meet his wife! Matthau persuades his receptionist, Bergman, to play the part of his wife, causing the prickly receptionist to blossom like the cactus flower of the title.

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