Editing Ingrid Bergman (section)

==Early life==
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Ingrid Bergman was born on 29 August 1915 in Stockholm, to a Swedish father, Justus Samuel Bergman,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Official Ingrid Bergman Web Site |url=https://www.goliath-entertainment.com |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170530175445/http://www.ingridbergman.com/about/bio.htm |archive-date=30 May 2017 |access-date=31 May 2017 |website=Ingridbergman.com}}</ref> and a [[German people|German]] mother, Frieda "Friedel" Henriette Auguste Louise Bergman ([[née]] Adler), who was born in [[Kiel]].<ref name="Chandler">{{Cite book |last=Chandler, Charlotte |url=https://archive.org/details/ingridingridberg00chan/page/19 |title=Ingrid: Ingrid Bergman, A Personal Biography |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7432-9421-8 |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/ingridingridberg00chan/page/19 19, 21, 294]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Ziolkowska-Boehm |first=Aleksandra |author-link=Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uZuwAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 |title=Ingrid Bergman and her American Relatives |date=28 August 2013 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9780761861515}}</ref> Her parents married in [[Hamburg]] on 13 June 1907.<ref name="ancestry">Ancestry Library Edition{{verify source|date=February 2023}}</ref><ref>''Standesamt Hamburg'' 3, 1907 No. 173.</ref> She was named after [[Princess Ingrid of Sweden]]. Although she was raised in Sweden, she spent her summers in Germany and spoke fluent German.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lunde |first=Arne |title=Nordic Exposures: Scandinavian Identities in Classical Hollywood Cinema |publisher=University of Washington Press |year=2011 |isbn=9780295800844 |page=157}}</ref>

Bergman was raised as an only child, as two older siblings had died in infancy before she was born. When she was two and a half years old, her mother died. She learned to create imaginary friends as a child.<ref name="NYT"/> Justus Bergman had wanted his daughter to become an opera star and had her take voice lessons for three years.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Russell Taylor |first=John |url=https://archive.org/details/ingridbergman00tayl |title=Ingrid Bergman |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=1983 |isbn=0-312-41796-9 |location=Great Britain |url-access=registration}}</ref> He sent her to the {{lang|sv|[[Palmgrenska Samskolan]]}}, a prestigious girls' school in Stockholm where Bergman was reportedly neither a good student nor popular.<ref name=":0"/>

Justus was a photographer and loved documenting his daughter's birthdays with his camera.<ref name="LifeMag"/> He made his daughter one of his favorite photographic subjects. She enjoyed dancing, dressing up, and acting in front of her father's lenses. "I was perhaps the most photographed child in Scandinavia," quipped Bergman in her later years.<ref name="HutchinsonOpinion"/> In 1929, when Bergman was around 14, her father died of stomach cancer. Losing her parents at such a young age was a trauma that Bergman later described as "living with an ache", an experience of which she was not even aware.<ref name="HutchinsonOpinion"/>

After her father's death, Bergman was sent to live with her paternal aunt, Ellen, who died of heart disease six months later. Bergman then lived with her paternal uncle Otto and his wife Hulda, who had five children of their own. She also visited her maternal aunt, Elsa Adler, whom the young girl called {{lang|de|Mutti}} (Mom) according to family lore.<ref name="Chandler"/>{{rp|294}} She later said, "I have wanted to be an actress almost as long as I can remember",<ref name="Steele_Bergman">{{cite book |last=Steele |first=Joseph Henry |date= 2019-10-31 |title=Ingrid Bergman: An Intimate Portrait |url=https://archive.org/details/ingridbergmanint00stee |location=New York, USA |publisher=Popular Library |page=19 |isbn=9780000033338}}</ref> sometimes wearing her deceased mother's clothing, and staging plays in her father's empty studio.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

Bergman spoke Swedish and German as [[first language]]s, English and Italian (acquired later, while living in the U.S. and Italy),<ref name="Leamer2"/> and French (learned in school). She acted in each of these languages at various times.<ref name="JP"/>

Bergman received a scholarship to the state-sponsored [[Royal Dramatic Training Academy]], where [[Greta Garbo]] had some years earlier earned a similar scholarship. After several months, she was given a part in a new play, {{lang|sv|Ett Brott}} (''A Crime''), written by [[Sigfrid Siwertz]]. This was "totally against procedure" at the school, where girls were expected to complete three years of study before getting such acting roles.<ref name="Chandler"/>{{rp|33}} During her first summer break, Bergman was hired by Swedish film studio [[Svensk Filmindustri]], which led her to leave the Royal Dramatic Theatre after just one year to work in films full-time.<ref name="k827">{{cite web | last=Hutchinson |first=Pamela |title=Eclipse Series 46: Ingrid Bergman's Swedish Years | website=The Criterion Collection | date=2018-04-10 | url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5543-eclipse-series-46-ingrid-bergman-s-swedish-years | access-date=2024-07-04}}</ref>