
Ingrid Bergman
Smit studies the woman behind the public image as a natural, wholesome, even saintly person, an image carefully crafted by Bergman''s first producer David O. Selznick. Bergman hid behind that image to live her life on her own terms. That life included three difficult marriages, numerous lovers, and a major scandal that stained her reputation but which she survived by creating her own legend.
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Smit studies the woman behind the public image as a natural, wholesome, even saintly person, an image carefully crafted by Bergman''s first producer David O. Selznick. Bergman hid behind that image to live her life on her own terms. That life included three difficult marriages, numerous lovers, and a major scandal that stained her reputation but which she survived by creating her own legend.
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