TCM Schedule for Monday, August 25 -- SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: INGRID BERGMAN

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4:00am Wanda Nevada (1979)
A drifter wins an orphaned girl in a poker game.
Cast: Peter Fonda, Brooke Shields, Fiona Lewis. Dir: Peter Fonda. C-107 mins, TV-PG

6:00am Stromboli (1950)
A refugee marries a Sicilian fisherman but can't cope with the harshness of her new life.
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana. Dir: Roberto Rossellini. BW-107 mins, TV-14

7:45am Saratoga Trunk (1945)
A woman with a past returns to 19th-century New Orleans for revenge.
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper, Flora Robson. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-135 mins, TV-PG

10:00am Goodbye Again (1961)
A 40-year-old woman swaps her sophisticated lover for a young law student.
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, Yves Montand. Dir: Anatole Litvak. BW-120 mins, TV-PG

12:08pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Coffins On Wheels (1941)
BW-17 mins

12:30pm Rage In Heaven (1941)
A jealous man plots to fake his death and incriminate his wife's suspected lover.
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders. Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II. BW-85 mins, TV-PG

2:00pm Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1941)
A scientist's investigations into the nature of good and evil turn him into a murderous monster.
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner. Dir: Victor Fleming. BW-113 mins, TV-PG

4:00pm Bells Of St. Mary's, The (1945)
A liberal priest tries to soften the strict nun running a boys' school.
Cast: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers. Dir: Leo McCarey. BW-126 mins, TV-G

6:15pm Casablanca (1942)
An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-103 mins, TV-PG

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: INGRID BERGMAN

8:00pm Notorious (1946)
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-101 mins, TV-PG

9:50pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Glimpses Of California (1946)
C-9 mins

10:00pm Spellbound (1945)
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-118 mins, TV-PG

12:00am Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
A married violinist deserts his family when he falls for his accompanist.
Cast: Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Edna Best. Dir: Gregory Ratoff. BW-70 mins, TV-14

1:14am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Heroes At Leisure (1939)
BW-10 mins

1:30am Indiscreet (1958)
A tycoon pretends to be married while courting a beautiful actress.
Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker. Dir: Stanley Donen. C-100 mins, TV-PG

3:20am Short Film: From The Vaults: Car That Became A Star, The (1964)
This short documentary follows the story of the antique Rolls that appeared in the title role of MGM's "The Yellow Rolls Royce" (1964).
BW-10 mins

3:30am Yellow Rolls-Royce, The (1964)
A classic car changes the lives of three sets of owners.
Cast: Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, Ingrid Bergman. Dir: Anthony Asquith. C-123 mins, TV-PG

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1. Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)

During the period in which he was producing and releasing his signature movie, Gone With the Wind (1939), David O. Selznick made another important contribution to American films by introducing Ingrid Bergman in her first English-speaking movie, Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939). Selznick assistant Kay Brown had seen an earlier Swedish version of the film, also starring Bergman, and the producer dispatched her to Stockholm to secure the rights for an American remake. After Brown returned to New York with the screenplay rights, Selznick had an afterthought and sent her once again to Sweden, this time with instructions to sign the leading lady to a contract.

According to Selznick biographer Bob Thomas, Bergman had turned down other Hollywood offers from fast-talking Hollywood types but was impressed by Brown's personality, telling her, "You're so sweet and human that anyone you work for couldn't be nearly as crazy as I expected." She eventually signed with Selznick, although stipulating that she would commit to only one film before deciding whether she wanted to stay in Hollywood.

Bergman balked at Selznick's plans for a "glamour makeover" that involved capping her teeth, plucking her eyebrows and dying her hair. "You must have liked me to bring me all the way over here," she told him, adding that she had not had plucked eyebrows or dyed hair in the original Intermezzo. Selznick then realized that a great publicity campaign could be built around Bergman's "naturalness," and a new type of Hollywood star appeared to captivate an international public.

Intermezzo tells of a bittersweet love affair between a young pianist (Bergman) and a famous concert violinist (Leslie Howard) who is married with two children. The movie was Oscar-nominated for its musical score and for Gregg Toland's beautiful black-and-white photography, which gave Bergman a special glow. Upon the film's release, critics warmed to the actress as quickly as audiences did. "There is that incandescence about Miss Bergman," wrote Frank S. Nugent in the New York Times, "that spiritual spark which makes us believe that Selznick has found another great lady of the screen."

Producers: David O. Selznick, Leslie Howard (Associate)
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Screenplay: George O'Neil, from screenplay by Gustaf Molander and Gosta Stevens
Cinematography: Gregg Toland, Harry Stradling Sr. (uncredited)
Original Music: Max Steiner
Editing: Hal C. Kern
Costume Design: Travis Banton, Irene
Cast: Leslie Howard (Holger Brandt), Ingrid Bergman (Anita Hoffman), Edna Best (Margit Brandt), John Halliday (Thomas Stenborg), Cecil Kellaway (Charles Moler), Enid Bennett (Greta Stenborg), Ann E. Todd (Ann Marie Brandt).
BW-70m. Closed captioning.

by Roger Fristoe