Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman (August 29, 1915 - August 29, 1982), classic Swedish film actress popular in the 1940s, starring in a variety of European and American films. Original, vintage, 7 x 9 promotional photograph from the film "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness," 1958.

"The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" is a 1958 American 20th Century Fox film based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British maid, who became a missionary in China during the tumultuous years leading up to World War II. Directed by Mark Robson, who received an Academy Award for Directing nomination, the film stars Ingrid Bergman as Aylward and Curt Jürgens as her love interest, Colonel Lin Nan, a Chinese officer with a Dutch father. Robert Donat, who played the mandarin of the town in 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 Britain. Snowdonia in North Wales was used for exterior locations. Most of the children in the film were Chinese children from Liverpool, which has one of the oldest Chinese communities in Europe.

Bergman won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in "Casablanca" (1942), a World War II drama co-starring Humphrey Bogart, and as Alicia Huberman in "Notorious" (1946), an Alfred Hitchcock thriller co-starring Cary Grant.

The vintage photograph is in very good condition with slight signs of age and handling. Verso bears original hand written notations and slight mounting trace.