John Russell Taylor interviews Ingrid Bergman at the NFT - 1981 

Ingrid was so authentic! She never sold herself-her soul cheap like some actresses. She always stayed who she was. I admire her for that!!!

Such a professional. She had just one more year to live but you would never know it. elegant, poised and so polite. Made of tough stuff. god bless her. she planned a birthday celebration on 29th August 1982 and said goodbye to her guests and passed away that evening.

she was poised, elegant & polite. she had just one more year to live. She planned a birthday dinner party on 29th August 1982, said goodbye to her guests & passed away that evening.

I'm old enough to remember watching this when it was originally broadcast and enjoyed it thoroughly when I was in my early teens. Ingrid Bergman always gave the impression she liked interviews and Q and A's and is charm personified, still strikingly attractive despite the illness that would sadly claim her life only about a year after this interview at the NFT. The audience appeared to be genuinely in awe to be in the presence of such a movie legend as she was.

Possibly the best and most comprehensive interview with Ingrid Bergman available.

Wow. I just love hearing her interviews. She's so gentle, respectful, regal and interesting. I'm like a school kid listening to the teacher when she talks.

I was hoping Ingrid would say that Notorious was her favorite film -- because it's MY favorite Ingrid film.

I can hear the pain in her voice when she talked about the scene with the little girl because she knew her children had experienced it. I still have her book. It was an honest revelation. Missed her

I bought the Rosselini DVDs which have this as an extra as Like Jonathon Bridge i was a teenager at the time when it was shown on BBC2 - I waited a long time to see it again. A wonderful, gracious lady who despite her illness remained beautiful til the end. A true star that we no longer see today in this fickle world of "celebrity" and a brave, courageous lady who i miss to this day. So nice to see this interview online and thanks for posting it. I have admired her since i was 12 years old and will never forget her.

Además de su talento y belleza una mujer demasiado inteligente se le nota.en la entrevista habla solo ella.una mujer que llegó al éxito porque se lo propuso Una gran leyenda y preciosa mujer hasta el final ❤

OMG: I was there and think i glimpsed myself in the audience but not totally certain.... I also saw her at the ICA Rossellini season and was too shy to go up and say how much I admired her. A great lady.

What a woman! What a delight to see this interview. I'm a huge fan and even more now after watching this. Her candid response, the way she spoke, such class.

Such a straightforward, intelligent yet graceful and kind woman. We just don’t see interviews like this today. Too much therapy. People don’t speak without filtering everything for their sense of self, public image, posterity. It’s depressing how coarsened we are already.

Brilliant lady. So humane, honest, proffessional, also progfessional human♥️

Ingrid Bergman was such a excellent, sophisticated, smart, beautiful and talented lady, very brave and honest. I'm only 22 years old , but i've seen plenty of her movies and i'm mesmerized by her, wow, so sad that she had too leave us too soon at just 65 years old.

She had the voice of someone who smoked her whole life. Also she was very ill at this time and she was there doing this whole interview. What an amazing woman. Forever in our hearts, Ingrid.

She was a very wise and strong woman! I admire her very much!

This interview was a joy - particularly since, in 1976 I was lucky to have a converstion with Ms. Bergman when she was performing for the Josephine Baker Tribute at the Metropolitan Opera. (I had been brought up on Ingrid Bergman by my Norwegiano-American mother.) She was incredibly warm and charming and inquisitive about my family (my father was Italian-American) - perhaps that's what made converstation so easy. She was called away briefly to the electrician's closet to study Mohammed Ali's "script" ( Ali was stranded in the midwest by bad weather) When she returned, she came back to me and asked me who the women were performing - it was LaBelle performing "Lady Marmalade" and she was fascinated by their costumes (huge wooden spools on top of their heads had her transfixed). It was a precious day and this interview called back my memories of her from early girlhood to my now quite older age.

I love her a lot as actress as a woman

Omg thank you for posting this! I'm always on the lookout for anything Ingrid Bergman and this is quite the gem ❤

The most wonderful person and the best cinema actress in history!!! Really love her works and his love and bauty through the years ❤❤❤

Thanks! Very precious. Bergman fan since 1985

Que mujer. Que gran artista.

And it was always intriguing how much her daughter, Isabella Rossellini looked like her.

I just love her beauty 💖

Nunca habia escuchado de ella hasta hoy que por casualidad vi la pelicula Juana de Arco! Y me encanto!

Real magical woman, not only as an actress❤

Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis and Lauren Bacall. 3 actresses that always are truly fascinating whenever they are interviewed.

She followed her trade and lived the way she wanted ! She was lucky but a major beauty and talent! A star!

What a lovely woman she was.

She is beautiful, very talented, intelligent, humble, refreshing, unique. She is so different from conventional hollywood glamour girls and her acting style is less stylized

Thank you very much for this!❤️

I realize that in Ingrid’s younger yr she is soft spoken and now here she has a deep voice.

I was named after her. My mother did not agree with it because it was a name that was unusual in my country. Dad prevailed. I love my name. and to be named after such a fantastic talent!

Ingrid Bergman was very ill at the time, her face swollen and drawn from treatment. Toward the end of the interview she is sweating. Ingrid Bergman had an incandescent beauty and much, much charm, she was a great actress.

It's difficult to find her early swedish film work , on blu ray/dvd. It is available in USA , but expensive , if one happens to live in Europe. Maybe the bfi will release her work in the future. I have just bought Under Capricorn on blu ray , but Notorious must rank up there , as her best. If you are a fan like me, it can be pricey, buying all on blu-ray. I prefer to own the physical product, as opposed to streaming.

I’m 43 years old and have been a big fan of Ingrid Bergman since I was 5 ( the same year she passed away ) but I never knew that she’s dead until 2002!

A true class act ana a great dame

Quando penso alla povera Anna Magnani, mi si stringe il cuore ❤️

I love this classy amazing lady what beautiful remarkable person

Very brave of her to do this ❤

Ingrid Bergman became famous after Casablanca. A popular Swedish actress during 1940s and onwards. Made fortune in Hollywood. RIP Ingrid.

I interviewed Cukor and Hitchcock. You can hear some of the Hitchcock at sandrasheveyinterviews RU-vid. Cukor might have given you `wonderful little details` but essentially he despised women. Hitch, on the other hand, despises women in cinematic context but personally and professionally he is very nice, kind too.

I like the lady. She was very down to earth, no star personality.

@31:00 her book is truly the best book I have ever read! I hate reading but since I’m a great fan of hers I got it and read it and never have I ever felt every emotion while reading anything until I read her book! Tears of laughter, sorrow, anger fell through when I read her book! She is truly a funny author of telling cute stories! I’m more than angry that they don’t reprint her stories and sell on the book shelves because she is truly the thing that made Hollywood grand and she’s no where on the shelves in your local book stores unless it’s a second hand bookstore! More than angry!

It's very funny whenever she talked about Casablanca because even I was very confused about Ilsa. I think she played it beautifully, it kept me wondering about what could be Ilsa's agenda til the end of the movie. It's like being in Rick's position where he's smitten by a mysterious beautiful lady.

I know she worked with Hitchcock and that should prejudice me but really the only film I really like with Bergman is a German film made a Ufa to launch her career in Germany `The Four Companions` 1938 directed by Carl Froelich. Fabulous movie, fabulous!!

INGRID BERGMAN IS ONE OF THE GREATEST ACTRESSES OF ALL TIME ALONG WITH MERYL STREEP, BETTE DAVIS, JUDI DENCH, MAGGIE SMITH, VANESSA REDGRAVE, GERALDINE PAGE, GLENN CLOSE AND CATE BLANCHETT...

That girl that asked her about Bogart was very cute.

The man that Rosselini chose for Bergman's leading man in "Stromboli" was extremely good looking.

She died the next year ..... so sad

In one moment she said Casablanca didn’t have the script written before hand then goes with a director that has no scripts

Ingrid Bergman ...The Goat ....The greatest of all time.

She should have lived till 2015 until she turned 100

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Was this her last interview before her death on 1982?

Did Rossellini ever mentioned why he chose to have ingrid Bergman in 5 movies? She was not only a hollywood actress. He should have explained beter

This is an interesting observatin and although quite obvious really neverr occurred to me. The perfection she refers to in American films is a buffer against questioning..questioning any of the inequalities of life (war, discrimination, domination, exploitation) The fit is so perfect, so tight..there is no room to stick your finger in. Monkey see, monkey do. Monkey don`t see. Monkey don`t do.

Theres a german accent under the english accent

Her beautiful was not there anymore.

How did I come to the conclusion Cukor was homosexual? This is the question from someone on this thread. inasmuch as it was a well-kept secret. Well, I interviewed him for a couple of hours. It was unmistakable. Not always transparent. You`d never have known with Rock Hudson. On the other hand it was immediately evident with Paul Newman. Bitch? Butch? Don`t know inasmuch as I am not conversant with this gay slang. Still in all it is and was apparent to me.

she didn't age well due to her heavy smoking. She died a year after this interview.

She never smoked

JRT is too soft on Nazis. We were teaching colleagues USC. He defended Riefenstahl and s+++ up to Bergman and other actors who were Nazi complicit (active or passive)

Do you know that there are places where Roberto Rossellini was a very well known director before Stromboli? As for the question of languages very few americans get it. Step out of it. The world is round.

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she looks ill here..

She makes a fool of herself in Rossellini films. Why? Because she never could relax and be herself. Sad. Decadent really!