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...Bergman, 50, such liaisons are nothing new; he has been married four times, and his name is a favorite with Scandinavian rumormongers. But for Liv Ullman, 29, the aspect of scandal is unfamiliar. Born in Tokyo of Norwegian parents, she later went to Canada, where her aircraft-engineer father was fatally injured in a landing-field accident. Resettled in Norway, she developed a single obsession: to be an actress. She dropped out of high school, convinced that she could meet the lofty standards of Oslo's National Theater School. When they refused her, she stubbornly set off for London...
Sealed Inside. Back in Norway, Ullman joined a provincial troupe, not long afterward became a member of the prestigious National Theater of Norway and married an Oslo psychiatrist, Hans Stang. By the time she was 26, she was a major stage actress in her own country, with four films to her credit. But her fame remained sealed inside Norway until Bergman, struck by the resemblance between Ullman and his longtime star, Bibi Andersson, (The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries) offered her a role in his study of personality transference, Persona. Radiant over her success as an actress and her selection...
Shortly after the filming of Persona, the rumors began. She and Bergman gave out the news that they enjoyed an "extraordinarily fine relationship." Late this year, the Stangs divorced, and Ullman-and her daughter Linn-moved into the $100,000 house Bergman recently built on Sheep Island, scene of The Shame. On occasion, they can also be spied upon in their town house in Stockholm's expensive residential suburb, Deer Garden. Guarding his privacy with zeal, Bergman has only once publicly ventured an opinion about the woman who has played a major role in his last three films...
Silly Woman. He is not alone. "She's one of the most talented actresses around," says Björnstrand. "A little like Ingmar-full of health, vitality, humor." To Von Sydow, Ullman has "a rare ability to express emotions in front of a camera in a very pure way, very directly. It is something I have rarely seen." To the National Society of Film Critics in the U.S., she was a brilliant actress in the year's best film, Persona; to international audiences, she is the latest Scandinavian beauty who-like Garbo or Ingrid Bergman or Ingrid Thulin...
Next year, Ullman will star in a non-Bergman film, Jan Troell's two-part The Immigrants and The Emigrants, to be filmed in Sweden, Canada and the U.S. But, though there have been other offers from both European and American film makers, Ullman shows no inclination to be far from her companion. During the making of The Shame, he directed her to move closer to a flaming house. "Burning things were flying over my head," she recalls. "I tried to get a little out of the way from the house. Bergman shouted...