Classic Romantic Drama I Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939) I Retrospective 

Radiance. Pure radiance.

She was in the Swedish version of this movie but this is officially her debut Hollywood film

The only actress I like is Ingrid Bergman

What a debut! Love INGRID !!

She is over rated.

Thank you for this. Very sad.

Meliapan, thanks for the Ann Todd info! Her speaking style and ringlets reminded me of Shirley ? also a child star but of a different time, of course. Beautiful little girl. And her fuzzy Jack Russell pooch was also adorable! Now I'll watch the film and get the tissues ready...😣

@@melianna999 YES! Thanks, i had a brain fart, could Not remember it!

@@aileen694 She was a little gem in Hollywood

Anne Todd is brilliant in David Lean's masterpiece "Madeleine"

yes, and it takes true love between a husband and wife to recover after his folly.

A touching story indeed!! I am happy his daughter can recover but it's not easy to forgive him!!!!!

The great minds has long gone to rest. Be it the actors or the minds behind the casting. The way of life has also changed hence what we see today is what currently exists. Movies and the likes are just replications of what is happening in the moments of creation.

They went to the toilet, now we have 💩

The story and scenario were originally from a Swedish film of the same title. A big hit over here but it also helped propel Ingrid Bergman to Hollywood. In her memoir book (highly recommended!) she recalled her encounter with Selznick's talent scout Kay Brown who had seen the original film at a New York theatre and recommended both the movie and the girl to her boss. A few months later, Brown flew over to check Ingrid out in Stockholm and try to recruit her for Hollywood. Brown immediately liked the robust blonde lady and her newly-wed husband, and the couple decided to relocate to America. Ingrid was both intelligent and a very courageous woman - she knew she wanted to influence what kind of roles she was going to play, and at several points took great risks with her career and sometimes paid a high price (most infamously when she left the US to live and work with Roberto Rossellini, of course, a move that caused her to be denounced as a traitor and an immoral woman by the US media). She remains an icon around the world and also in her homeland of Sweden. :)

@@melianna999 I'll have to quote King Charles here: "Back again so soon? Dear, oh dear..." :D

@@melianna999 what?

Well adultery isn't beautiful. He was willing to walk out on his family. Monster!

@@bethr8756 Adultery is not beautiful, it is true. But, he was not a monster, just weak. It is awful that he walked out on his family. The whole thing was terrible, but passion is like that. Unless, you stop right at the beginning, you are lost and have no strength to stop anymore. When they walked to the bridge the first time, that was the point they should have run to different directions. They didn't and there was no stopping from there on. What was most tragic, is that it was a happy family and he did love his wife. Sometimes things happen and people are not prepared to handle these things. It should be taught in every family how to deal with temptations in adult life. I strongly believe only those who are determined and prepared can resist temptations. When they know before anything has ever happened what they are going to do and they do it. Once a long time happily married man said in a program where they asked him about his secret how to stay loyal and faithful to his wife and keep the marriage happy: He said have your running shoes always in sight and when you are tempted, run, run as fast as you can. Don't think, do not stop, run. He was right of course. People should just do that. Before the bond develops. It always needs some time, even if it presents itself suddenly. It can still be pushed away, but once the two people spend some time together it quickly becomes quicksand.

YES indeed about a wife still in love with her husband and he finally remembering to love her again and his family and let go of his fling...his intermezzo. True love of a great woman who forgave her cruel husband who finally did wake up to his folly with the help of his lovely mistress. The enduring true love of a husband and a wife.

These were rich people who rarely had to work. They could afford to be kind.

Playing the violin is hard work. Kindness is not a product of wealth.

... of all time!)

@honestovillareal2549: Yes, he’s a wonderful actor and a very underrated one, too. I’ve made it a point to watch many of his films.

Yes, also the same type of character! I wonder, did he ever play anything else, like a cowboy, a policeman, a charcoal miner, a marine...? 🤔

Of course he played an excellent character in Of human bondage with Betty Davis, I love that it's free on RU-vid.

Как жаль, что такой прерасный фильм идёт без русского перевода.

I wish people talked like that today

That is poetry!

This is just a MOVIE...

attachments, heartbreak is coming from the Ego. If one stays in a relationship for the sake of the other only, that equally causes suffering to that person who who stays.

@@klaraantal6738 Maybe so as far as the spouse goes. But leaving your children is unforgivable and unimaginable. No excuses. None.

@@carollund8251 Yes. Because that NEVER happens. Because children never recover from divorce and never forgive the parents that separated. Because children never grow up and leave their parents to have lives of their own.

@@c.a.savage5689 Very cute sarcasm dearest but I'm not talking about separation. This man left his family, literally abandoned them and only came back because his lover went away. That is an entirely different thing. If you think children ever recover from abandonment you are delusional. And I won't even attempt to explain the stupidity of comparing such a situation to grown children eventually leaving the nest.

She was so beautiful and talented..... BORN to become an actress......!!!!

@@carolann5338 if u love Ingrid i recommend to u The bells of st mary s..she was like an angel in that one

@@princet5505 I have seen the Bells of St. Mary so very often over the years.....!!!!! Magnificent Christmas movie......!!!!

@@carolann5338 ok watch Scarlet street 1945..but i guess u have seen it too if u like classics

@@princet5505 Thank you...."!!!!

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Lev Tolstoi is not a best example to charge adultery. He had forcedly sex with his wife, who just delivered and had breast inflammation. In surrounding villages of the homestead, many female serfs were impregnated/raped by him

Leslie Howard was in many films. Of Human Bondage is another famous film he was in.

Yes there are so many Lifestyle shows on TV I'm sick of them..Bring back the old B/W Films of Yesteryear...

Leslie Howard is not one that can be overshadowed by anyone at all! How could you say that?! No one has ever done that! He is one of the greatest artists of all time and this film would have been less than half if anything at all without him. It is him I watch it for and not Bergman. She does very well, but ..well, let me just not say anything anymore. I suppose I may not be just to her. But I agree that the wife Edna and the daughter Ann Todd were brilliant too.

I HATE ADS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@@whaszisThan spend a little money and have it all ad free. Don’t complain if you are too cheap to watch quality movies like these without ads.

@@whaszis I use Adblock on my laptop. Never saw a single advert.

Yes. The scene at the end with his son is very touching, it’s in 3/4 shadow yet filled with every emotion.

Grazie per la notifica gentile e l'approvazione.

É vero Lesle Howard aveva una voce speciale, une deve sentirne.

Why may one ask? Why not have a high opinion of this film? It is one of the best films of all time.

@@42kellys I disagree that it is a great film, so our tastes must be quite different. My idea of great films are Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, The Little Foxes, The Thin Man, The Magnificent Ambersons, Ben Hur, To Have and Have Not, several Hitchcock films, including Rebecca, North by Northwest, Notorious, Vertigo. These are only a few of the films that I find great, but I think there are many more that are much better than Intermezzo. That said, I am glad that you enjoy Intermezzo, and I certainly love seeing a young Ingrid Bergman turning in such a fine performance in it.

@@Bronte-on6tm Well, several films you listed are great in my opinion too bu that does not take away greatness from this underestimated little gem of a film. However, opinions vary we are all different with different tastes and ideas on what is truly great or not. I measure a lot of them by tte impact they have on me. If no impact I would not call them great. Also, those films that make me think about them sometimes even for days or a week I call great even if it was distasteful watching them, e.g. Blade Runner 1-2. Mind you, 2 was not as 1 for me. I found that one terrifying and tormenting and showing a bleak vision of the future, now we are kinda live that future in many aspects. Naturally, I was prepared for 2 unlike for part one.

@@42kellys Yes, you stated the reason why Intermezzo is not great in my opinion. I have seen it three times over the course of many years. Each time, I have completely forgotten the content of the movie. Just now, I had to skim through parts of it to remind myself of it... and only 9 months after having last seen it. It is a melodrama that provokes no thought for me, except to briefly question that the infatuated young woman shows more level-headedness than the infatuated older man. I don't doubt that it inspires more thought for others, and that is just fine with me. Intermezzo just isn't my cup of tea.

This film is about the tremendous influence of the beauty of Music, not how people look..

That is a different Ann Todd. Look up "Ann Todd, Child actress". It is a completely different person.

@@survivaltrekker6677 OK-TY, I will.

Wrong Ann Todd. Yes, I was drawn to her endearing presence, her instinctive, genuine acting. So I looked her up..Ann E. Todd

Well said. I think you're right.

Not at all. Ingrid Bergman received some bad publicity and her career suffered for a time because she left her husband for Roberto Rosselini an Italian Movie Director but that didn't happen until 1950. However her career rebounded after a few years with several more successful movies.

Oh dear, if he was as highly principled as you would like, there wouldn't be a movie in the first place!! He isn't the first self-involved artist type (not unusual) to fall head over heels for an attractive, talented artist who worshipped him from afar. It's 1939, making telephone calls across the continent could take hours or days. Also, that would just serve to show his conflicted feelings and guilt. We already know about that.

He was "two-timing" a bit in real life: not quite the ideal gentleman he portrayed in his pictures.

Life is seldom black or white, good or bad.

Not 'always', surely.

Can you by now remember the title of the second movie you mentioned?

Was it not with Marlene Dietrich in the lead role? I mean the other film? The story you mentioned seems to recall that film.

@@42kellys Thank you! I was able to search for the movie. It's called the Garden of Allah. I remember it specifically for the last scene.

@@anuferns WoW! I just reviewed all her films to find it by the name but I passed it, I did not think that Garden of Allah was that one. I am going to look at it again.

And people love it but no one wants to go through it.

Leonard Cohen wrote "the cracks let in light come in." Every life has cracks. People are weak, fall down, make mistakes. As long as there is love, there is hope, forgiveness and redemption.

@@c.a.savage5689 Allora speriamo che le persone siamo forti e cadano il meno possibile.

Not for me.

Not for me either, complete and utter heartbreak that still lives with me at times, 60 years later.

@peace love ok. Thank you 😊

@@Vicki1951 you should also see him in The Petrified Forest with Bette Davis I think it's here on youtube. Also, I am presume you know that he disappeared (missing in action) during WWII that's why we never saw very much else of him... I think he was not right for GWTW. a southerner with a british accent? but then again, he gave an air of aristocracy to the part so maybe it wasn't so bad.....

@@alpha-omega2362 I knew that he died shortly after GWTW but not read why. I was planning on doing a research regarding him. I didn’t think he played the character of Ashley as well as I had imagined him when I had read the book so many many years ago. It seemed to me that he was still play acting on the stage but since I’ve never seen a professional Broadway play or any other, I am not qualified to be a critic. Thank you for the information. I have more movies to watch and more information to locate. 😊

I read that he died during World War II working as an agent for (I think British) carrying secret papers. Somehow, the Nazis found out and his plane was shot down.

@@elizabethchild1620 yes, I am sorry , my description of his death was somewhat superficial... apparently there are various theories , but I guess what I really meant to say is that his body was never recovered and thus technically he "disappeared" .. (or at least that is my understanding..)

Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in a Minor

Men want all

And then she forgives him and welcomes him home! Disgusting.

@@carollund8251 So l guess this is where the holier-than-thou society meets. If your takeaway from the movie is as simplistic as that, you've missed alot.

I can hear the tut-tut-tuting from here. The lack of humanity for real people, in the throes of real emotions is depressing. Let's stone the adulterers.

@@c.a.savage5689 Sounds like an adulterer here is getting mighty defensive. And yes, the ending is as simplistic as that. The wife forgives him..as all good wives should do apparently.