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Did you know that... Alfred Hitchcock came under the surveillance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for his use of uranium as a plot element in Notorious (1946)? Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), the «Master of Suspense».   Notorious tells the story of Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman), the alcoholic daughter of a Nazi, who is recruited by government secret agent T. R. Devlin (Cary Grant) to romance and spy on her father's friend, Alexander Sebastian (Claude Rains), in Rio de Janeiro. Although Alicia and Devlin are in love, he asks her to marry Sebastian out of duty to her country. After their wedding, Alicia explores Sebastian's mansion and finds the wine cellar locked. During a party, Alicia secretly gets the key to the cellar and gives it to Devlin. They discover uranium dust hidden inside a bottle, but now Sebastian has learned that Alicia is a spy and starts poisoning her slowly.   Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains in Notorious .   While developing ...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Spellbound (1945) begins when Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck) arrives at a therapeutic community mental hospital in Vermont to replace its elderly director, Dr. Murchison (Leo G. Carroll). Headstrong psychoanalyst Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman), who also works there, soon notices that Edwardes has a peculiar phobia about sets of parallel lines against a white background. As Constance and Edwardes begin to fall in love with each other, he confides to her that he killed the real Dr. Edwardes and then assumed his identity. He suffers from massive amnesia and does not know who he is. Believing that the man is innocent and suffering from a guilt complex, Constance resolves to use her psychoanalytic training to break down his amnesia and discover what truly happened.    Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman and Michael Chekhov in Spellbound . To protect him, Constance takes the impostor — calling himself «John Brown» — to the New York home of he...

Casablanca (1942) is undoubtedly one of the most iconic films in American cinema history. Directed by Michael Curtiz, it follows three characters involved in a love triangle set against the backdrop of refugees fleeing the German advance in Europe during the early days of World War II. Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) is a hero of the Czech Resistance who has escaped a series of German concentration camps. Accompanied by his wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), he has reached Casablanca, a Moroccan city administered by the authorities of Vichy France. Laszlo needs to acquire letters of transit that were recently stolen from two German couriers so that he and Ilsa can get to the still neutral United States and lead the Resistance from there.   As it turns out, the only person who can help Laszlo is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), an American expatriate who had earlier fallen in love with Ilsa in Paris, at a time when she believed her husband to be dead. Rick now has to choose between his lov...

INGRID BERGMAN (August 29, 1915 — August 29, 1982) Be yourself. The world worships the original. Watch Sara 's exquisite tribute to this wonderful woman:

Theatrical release poster Directed by Sam Wood, Saratoga Trunk (1945) begins as Clio Dulaine (Ingrid Bergman) returns from Paris to her crumbling ancestral home in New Orleans, accompanied by her faithful Haitian maid, Angelique (Flora Robson), and her dwarf manservant, Cupidon (Jerry Austin). The illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic New Orleans Creole man and a part-Creole woman who was his placée, Clio is determined to achieve wealth and respectability so that she can avenge her recently deceased mother's mistreatment at the hands of her father's family. Shortly after she arrives in New Orleans, Clio meets Clint Maroon (Gary Cooper), a handsome Texan gambler in a white hat with an agenda o f his own , and a whirlwind courtship soon begins. Although she is in love with Clint , Clio plans to marry a rich and powerful man to prove that she is as good as her father's family. As she continues to embarrass the Dulaines at every opportunity she gets, Clint grows t...