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===Relationships=== Bergman had affairs with her directors and co-stars in the 1940s. Spencer Tracy and Bergman briefly dated during the filming of ''Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Double Act: Katharine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy |url=https://therake.com/stories/icons/katharine-hepburn-spencer-tracy/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022030935/https://therake.com/stories/icons/katharine-hepburn-spencer-tracy/ |archive-date=22 October 2020 |access-date=18 October 2020 |website=therake.com}}</ref> She later had an affair with Gary Cooper while shooting [[For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)|''For Whom the Bell Tolls'']]. Cooper said, "No one loved me more than Ingrid Bergman, but the day after filming concluded, I couldn't even get her on the phone."<ref name="IT">{{Cite web |title=A hymn to Saint Ingrid |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/a-hymn-to-saint-ingrid-1.127101?mode=amp|date= November 15, 1997 |access-date=18 October 2020 |website=Irish Times}}</ref> Jeanine Basinger writes, [Victor] "Fleming fell deeply in love with the irresistible Swede and never really got over it". While directing his final film ''Joan of Arc'', he was completely enthralled with Bergman.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Basinger |first=Jeanine |date=15 December 2008 |title=The Director MGM Trusted With Everything (Published 2008) |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/books/16basi.html |access-date=18 October 2020 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> She had a brief affair with musician [[Larry Adler]] when she was travelling across Europe entertaining the troops in 1945.<ref name=IT/><ref>{{Cite news |date=5 August 2016 |title=Ingrid Bergman — spellbinding, notorious |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/9fadc118-58bb-11e6-9f70-badea1b336d4 |access-date=18 October 2020}}</ref> In Anthony Quinn's autobiography, he mentions his sexual relationship with Bergman, among his many other affairs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=One Long Ride Anthony Quinn's Interesting Life Is Told In Detail In His Autobiography 'One Man Tango' |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/nov/01/one-long-ride-anthony-quinns-interesting-life-is/ |access-date=18 October 2020 |website=spokesman.com}}</ref> [[Howard Hughes]] was also quite taken by Bergman. They met through Cary Grant and Irene Selznick. He phoned one day to inform her that he had just bought [[RKO]] as a present for her.<ref>{{Cite web |date=26 August 1995 |title=When Ingrid Bergman met Howard Hughes |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/when-ingrid-bergman-met-howard-hughes-1598091.html |access-date=18 October 2020 |website=The Independent}}</ref> [[File:Spellbound 1945 Still.jpg|thumb|Gregory Peck admitted to having an affair with Bergman during the filming of ''Spellbound''.]] During her marriage to Lindström, Bergman also had affairs with the photographer [[Robert Capa]] and actor [[Gregory Peck]]. It was through Bergman's autobiography that her affair with Capa became known.<ref name="Marton">{{Cite book |last=Marton |first=Kati |url=https://archive.org/details/greatescapeninej00mart |title=The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-7432-6115-9 |location=New York |lccn=2006049162 |oclc=70864519 |author-link=Kati Marton}}</ref><sup>p. 176</sup> In June 1945, Bergman was passing through Paris, on her way to Berlin to entertain American soldiers. In response to a dinner invitation she met Capa and novelist [[Irwin Shaw]]. By her account, they had a wonderful evening. The next day, she departed for Berlin. Two months later, Capa was in Berlin, photographing ruins, and they met again. Distressed over her marriage to Lindström, she fell in love with Capa, and wished to leave her husband. During their months together in Berlin, Capa made enough money to follow Bergman back to Hollywood. Although ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine assigned him to cover Bergman, he was unhappy with the "frivolity" of Hollywood.<ref name="brenner_capa">{{Cite magazine |last=Brenner |first=Marie |title=War Photographer Robert Capa and his Coverage of D-day |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/06/photographer-robert-capa-d-day |url-status=live |magazine=Vanity Fair |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217205849/https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/06/photographer-robert-capa-d-day |archive-date=17 December 2019 |access-date=8 October 2020}}</ref> [[File:Ingrid_Bergman_in_Notorious_Trailer.jpg|thumb|left|Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant had a close friendship, and he accepted her Academy Award on her behalf for her role in ''[[Anastasia (1956 film)|Anastasia]]'' at the [[29th Academy Awards]] ceremony.]] Bergman's brief affair with ''[[Spellbound (1945 film)|Spellbound]]'' co-star Gregory Peck<ref>{{Cite book |last=Haney |first=Lynn |url={{Google books|YGqLGiJl69oC|page=PT31|keywords=ingrid%20bergman%20gregory%20peck|text=|plainurl=yes}} |title=Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life |publisher=Da Capo Press |year=2009 |isbn=9780786737819}}</ref> was kept private until Peck confessed it to Brad Darrach of ''[[People (American magazine)|People]]'' in an interview five years after Bergman's death. Peck said, "All I can say is that I had a real love for her (Bergman), and I think that's where I ought to stop ... I was young. She was young. We were involved for weeks in close and intense work."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fishgall |first=Gary |url=https://archive.org/details/gregorypeckbiogr00fish |title=Gregory Peck: A Biography |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2002 |isbn=9780684852904 |page=[https://archive.org/details/gregorypeckbiogr00fish/page/98 98] |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Smit |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cRWgEXLEzFQC&q=gregory+peck+ingrid+bergman+affair&pg=PA29 |title=Ingrid Bergman: The Life, Career and Public Image |publisher=McFarland |year=2012 |isbn=9780786472260 |page=30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Darrach |first=Brad |date=15 June 1987 |title=Gregory Peck |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20096523,00.html |url-status=dead |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006071300/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20096523,00.html |archive-date=6 October 2015 |access-date=5 October 2015}}</ref> Bergman was a [[Lutheran]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carter |first=Grace May |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SeeRDQAAQBAJ&q=Ingrid+Bergman+Lutheran&pg=PT60 |title=Ingrid Bergman |date=24 November 2016 |publisher=New Word City |isbn=9781612300986 |via=Google Books}}</ref> once saying of herself, "I'm tall, Swedish, and Lutheran".<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Profile in Courage, Ingrid Bergman Plays Golda While Battling Cancer |url=http://people.com/archive/a-profile-in-courage-ingrid-bergman-plays-golda-while-battling-cancer-vol-17-no-16/ |access-date=22 February 2019 |website=People}}</ref> Later, her daughter [[Isabella Rossellini]] said: "She showed that women are independent, that women want to tell their own story, want to take initiative, but sometimes, they can't because sometimes, our social culture doesn't allow women to break away from certain rules."<ref name="JP">{{Cite news |last=Pretot |first=Julien |date=17 May 2015 |title=Ingrid Bergman had made peace with America, says daughter Rossellini |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-filmfestival-cannes-rossellini-idUSKBN0O20M520150517 |access-date=13 October 2020}}</ref> After the making of ''[[Intermezzo: A Love Story]]'' (1939), producer [[David O. Selznick]] and his wife [[Irene Selznick|Irene]] became friends with Bergman and remained so throughout her career.<ref name="Thomson"/>{{rp|76}} Bergman also formed a lifelong friendship with her ''Notorious'' co-star, Cary Grant. They met briefly in 1938 at a party thrown by Selznick.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 August 2015 |title=Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant: An "Indiscreet" Friendship |url=https://sistercelluloid.com/2015/08/30/ingrid-bergman-and-cary-grant-an-indiscreet-friendship/ |access-date=17 October 2020 |website=Sister Celluloid}}</ref> Scot Eyman in his book, ''Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise'' wrote, "Grant found that he liked Ingrid Bergman a great deal.... She was beautiful, but lots of actresses are beautiful. What made Bergman special was her indifference to her looks, her clothes, to everything except her art."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Epstein |first=Joseph |date=16 October 2020 |title='Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise' Review: The Enigma of Charisma |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/cary-grant-a-brilliant-disguise-review-the-enigma-of-charisma-11602860598 |access-date=17 October 2020 |issn=0099-9660}}</ref> Bergman and Hitchcock also formed a sustained friendship out of mutual admiration.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Book Extracts: Ingrid Bergman – "My Story" – The Alfred Hitchcock Wiki |url=https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Book_Extracts:_Ingrid_Bergman_-_%22My_Story%22 |access-date=26 October 2020 |website=the.hitchcock.zone}}</ref> At {{convert|5|ft|9|in}},<ref name="NYT"/> she was taller than some of her male costars, causing occasional problems. She was two inches (5 cm) taller than [[Humphrey Bogart]], and Bogart was reported as standing on blocks or sitting on cushions in their scenes together in ''Casablanca''.<ref>{{Harvnb|Harmetz|1992|p=170}}</ref> Bergman was also taller than Claude Rains, and for the scenes in ''Notorious'' where Rains and Bergman were to walk hand-in-hand, Hitchcock devised a system of ramps that boosted Rains's height below camera level,<ref name="mcg380">McGilligan, pp. 379–380</ref> and Rains also wore [[elevator shoes]] in some scenes.<ref name="mcg380"/>
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