Ingrid Bergman speaks of her happiness

Here is Ingrid, eight years after her marriage, looking back on the past and giving her own opinion on this important subject.

The wide fame Ingrid Bergman has won in recent years has earned her, by right, the title of "the new Greta Garbo." She came to the United States in 1939 under contract to the director David O. Selznick to play the heroine in the film Intermezzo with the late Leslie Howard... And after five years there, she was hailed as the first actress in the world, being then twenty-nine years of age.

People supposed that Ingrid, in attaining this eminence and this triumph, had reached the summit of her hopes and the fullness of her happiness... But the truth is that she was not happy: in her home she constantly felt emptiness and desolation, and wondered at herself without ever arriving at an answer to her question: "Why am I not happy?"

The happiness to which the world-famous star Ingrid Bergman refers is in truth a happiness hard to attain, but not impossible; for the love Roberto and Ingrid

Ingrid Bergman in her most magnificent tragedy, "Anastasia"

bear their children is enough to make happiness hover in the air of their home...

She had the deepest respect for her husband, a dentist, who spent most of his hours in the operating room or bent over some study...

With Roberto in her first film "Stromboli"