Dir: Anatole Litvak | Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brenner, Helen Hayes | US Drama
Although long considered Hollywood royalty Bergman’s reign was only actually relatively briefly during the early forties before leaving under a cloud following her scandalous liaison with Rossellini.
Subsequently based in Europe, like many of her later productions she made ‘Anastasia’ in Paris, which won her the Academy Award that led to her rehabilitation; while Helen Hayes’ also made a late comeback on the strength of her supporting Oscar.
Casting Bergman as a Russian aristocrat isn’t exactly typecasting, but Yul Brynner essayed the first of a long line in sinister Russians, with the remainder of the cast containing the usual quota of Brits. @RichardChatten
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