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...more, Bergman's work is all Bergman, and few film directors can make a similar claim. He creates his own pictures from the first line of the script to the last snip of the cutting shears, working with concentrated fury; in spring he customarily collapses in a Stockholm hospital, nurses an imaginary ulcer, and dictates two screen plays in about six weeks. Apart from his film work, Bergman has established himself as the top director of the Swedish stage by a long chalk, was recently named manager of Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater. He also finds time...
...Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Brink of Life, The Magician-they have carried off top prizes at the big film festivals and set the turnstiles twirling on the commercial circuits as no Scandinavian film has done since Garbo was a girl. And last week Stockholm was looking aghast at the latest product of Bergman's imagination, a religious horror picture called The Virgin Spring (TIME, Feb. 29) that contains "the most terrible rape and murder scenes ever seen in a film." A Stockholm critic called it "Bergman's best...
Bergman and his pianist-wife, Kaebi (pronounced Cabby), live with two servants in a big old frame house in a Stockholm suburb. Bergman is up at 7:30. At 9:15 a studio chauffeur delivers him to SF, at 5 takes him home. After supper he sets up the next day's work, goes early to bed. The Bergmans rarely entertain-too much trouble. He coolly observes: "We have to administer our gifts." Bergman likes his wife to wear light makeup. "I don't want her to look like a movie actress," he says...
...TIME was printing no fewer than 21 editions at plants scattered from Bogotá to Manila, from Teheran to Stockholm. Thanks to air delivery, we were able to consolidate these into today's four international editions. A baffling complex of problems with distribution, censorship and currency restrictions almost smothered the venture in 1949, but as soon as the difficult decision to continue had been made, a steady growth toward today's circulation highs began...
...lifetime's devotion to movies of power and art (including a Hollywood stint in the '203, where he directed He Who Gets Slapped, The Scarlet Letter) with his winsome portrayal of the memory-haunted old doctor in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries; after long illness; in Stockholm...