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...Palmolive Garbo" was David Selznick's epithet for his new property. The hard-veined, soft-souled gentlemen of the press felt differently. There was something about Miss Bergman-they clawed the air for adequate words-which made them coo and baa like fatuous old uncles. "Lunching with her," sighed Thornton Delehanty, "is like sitting down to an hour or so of conversation with a charming and highly intelligent orchid." An A.P. feature writer uttered the glad cry, "As unspoiled as a fresh Swedish snowfall." Bosley Crowther in the Times, after some startling lyricism involving a Viking's sweetheart...
...just a come-on. The proper reaction was either to snort your opinion and move off or to up your offer. They upped their offers-and clonked in mild faints again as Miss Bergman again said, no thank you. But this sort of talk suddenly dazzled David Selznick with a new, if incredible, idea. The idea was that Miss Bergman meant precisely what she said. She was genuinely less interested in becoming one of the apotheosized queen bees in the dream hive of millions, less interested even in great wealth, than she was in getting good parts and doing them...
...Great New Star. Five years ago, when David Oliver Selznick, like a disguised Zeus, first started pawing up the turf and lowing in her vicinity, Ingrid Bergman was no easily-carried-away Europa. She was turning down offers, with the cool statement that she was doing very nicely...
...Miss Bergman's Intermezzo. He usually got what he was after; and he was determined to get her. While calm Miss Bergman sat in Stockholm flicking off her wrist offers which nearly every actress in Europe would have rolled over and begged for, she reckoned without David O. Selznick. In that failure of reckoning began a sort of duel, and a sort of wooing, as rare in Hollywood as victorious talent...
This protracted wheedling of Beauty by what Beauty regarded as the Beast might have gone on until Miss Bergman inherited the shawl of Ouspenskaya but for a second Selznick brainstorm. Selznick decided that vociferous blandishments, promises and temptations by cable were still a shade too Hollywood, and quit wearying the wires with them. This was a task, he now realized, for flesh and blood. Considering Miss Bergman's mental picture of an American female executive, the casting of the role was brilliantly lucky. He sent over a particularly tactful lady named Kay Brown. And that did it. Miss Bergman...