The beautiful and ORIGINAL actress from Stockholm, Sweden, Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982), was born and died on this day. Orphaned young, she was raised by her father, then her uncle, and carried an early resilience into a legendary career.

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory,” she quipped. Fluent in five languages—Swedish, English, French, German, and Italian—Bergman carried a rare spark and grace across borders and roles.

She began in Europe before producer David O. Selznick brought the 5'10" beauty to Hollywood in 1939 for the American version of Intermezzo, an instant hit. “The minute I looked at her, I knew I had something,” Selznick said. “She had an extraordinary quality of purity and nobility and a definite star personality that is very rare.”

“I've never sought success in order to get fame and money,” Bergman once said. “It's the talent and the passion that count in success.”

That passion brought unforgettable roles: as Ilsa in Casablanca (1942), Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), and Dr. Constance Peterson in Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945). She won Academy Awards for Gaslight (1944), Anastasia (1956), and Murder on the Orient Express (1974), with a total of seven Oscar nominations across her career.

She weathered scandal, but made one of the greatest comebacks in film history. Her return in Anastasia earned her a second Oscar and renewed admiration. She battled cancer for seven years and left the world over 50 luminous films...a legacy of heart.

Her final performance as Golda Meir in A Woman Called Golda (1982) earned her a posthumous Emmy Award, one last blaze of brilliance from a life lived with conviction.

“I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say,” she reflected. “I don't regret a thing I've done. I only regret the things I didn't do.”