Ingrid Bergman was an internationally acclaimed Swedish-German beauty who first appeared on film for the first time in Intermezzo (1939). Soon thereafter she rose to Hollywood film stardom, with roles such as For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight (1944), Joan of Arc (1948) and Spellbound (1945). But her most well-known performance may have been as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942), which has since been imitated many times over. Bergman earned two Academy Award nominations and even won one (for Gaslight).
In 1948, Rossellini appeared in Arch of Triumph, directed by Lewis Milestone and based on Erich Maria Remarque’s novel about an Italian-Romanian refugee who falls for a German doctor (Charles Boyer). Unfortunately, this film became an enormous box office failure as soon as its scandalous Rossellini scandal broke while it was out.
On 7 January 1982, Ingrid Bergman passed away after suffering a fire at her Los Angeles residence and was cremated and her ashes transported back home to Sweden for burial.