Here's looking at you, kid.

Here's looking at you, kid.

Who can forget the above quote. One of the greatest movie quote of all time from the 1942 everlasting classic Casablanca

In the movie Rick Blaine (Played by Humphrey Bogart - The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema.) says the above words looking at her beautiful lover Ilsa (Played by Ingrid Bergman - The American Film Institute ranked Her as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema).

Her sharp nose, Her beautiful smile, Her shining face through which she expresses her emotions torn between two people she loves in this movie, Ingrid impresses us in every frame she appears as Ilsa in Casablanca.

Ingrid Bergman - One of the most beautiful actress I have ever seen in Hollywood movies. According to biographer Donald Spoto, she was "arguably the most international star in the history of entertainment."

Bergman, was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 29 August 1915 to a Swedish father, Justus Samuel Bergman, and a German mother, Friedel Adler Bergman.

When she was three years of age, her mother died. Her father, died when she was thirteen. In the years before he died, he wanted her to become an opera star. She grew up with her Aunt's.

At the age of 17, Bergman was allowed only one chance to become an actress by entering an acting competition with the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. Her performance earned her a scholarship to the state-sponsored Royal Dramatic Theatre School.

After a few months she was given a part in a new play, Ett Brott (A Crime), by Sigfrid Siwertz. During her first summer break, she was also hired by a Swedish film studio, which consequently led to her leaving the Royal Dramatic Theatre to work in films full time, after just one year.

Her first film role after leaving the Royal Dramatic Theatre was a small part in 1935's Munkbrogreven (She had previously been an extra in the 1932 film Landskamp). She later acted in a dozen films in Sweden, including En kvinnas ansikte, which was later remade as A Woman's Face with Joan Crawford, and one film in Germany, Die vier Gesellen ("The Four Companions") (1938).

Bergman's first acting role in America came when Hollywood producer David O. Selznick brought her to America to star in Intermezzo: A Love Story, an English language remake of her 1936 Swedish film, Intermezzo. Intermezzo became an enormous success and as a result Bergman became a star.

After completing one last film in Sweden and appearing in three moderately successful films (Adam Had Four Sons, Rage in Heaven and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, all in 1941) in the United States, Bergman co-starred with Humphrey Bogart in the 1942 classic film Casablanca, which remains her best-known role.

Bergman did not consider Casablanca to be one of her favorite performances. "I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart." In later years however, she stated, "I feel about Casablanca that it has a life of its own. There is something mystical about it. It seems to have filled a need, a need that was there before the film, a need that the film filled.

After Casablanca, she played the part of Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), which was also her first color film. For the role she received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

The following year, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Gaslight (1944), a film in which George Cukor directed her as a "wife driven close to madness" by co-star Charles Boyer. The film, according to Thomson, "was the peak of her Hollywood glory.

Bergman next played a nun in The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) opposite Bing Crosby, for which she received her third consecutive nomination for Best Actress.

Bergman starred in the Alfred Hitchcock films Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), and Under Capricorn (1949).

Bergman received another Best Actress nomination for Joan of Arc (1948).

Bergman strongly admired two films by Italian director Roberto Rossellini that she had seen in the United States. In 1949, Bergman wrote to Rossellini, expressing this admiration and suggesting that she make a film with him. This led to her being cast in his film Stromboli (1950). During production, Bergman fell in love with Rossellini, and they began an affair.

As a result of the scandal, Bergman returned to Italy, leaving her husband and daughter (Pia), which led to a publicized divorce and custody battle for their daughter. Bergman and Rossellini were married on 24 May 1950.

She made her comeback to American Screen and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for a second time for 1956 film Anastasia. The award was accepted for her by her friend Cary Grant.

Bergman acted in several movies during that period. In 1982 she was offered the starring role in a television mini-series, A Woman Called Golda, about the late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir. It was to be her final acting role and she was honored posthumously with a second Emmy Award for Best Actress.

In 1980, Bergman's autobiography was published under the title Ingrid Bergman: My Story. It was written with the help of Alan Burgess, and in it she discusses her childhood, her early career and her life during her time in Hollywood.

Bergman died in 1982 on her 67th birthday in London, England, following a long battle with breast cancer. Her body was cremated at Kensal Green Cemetery, London.

She starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award. She is one of the greatest female stars of all time. She will always remain in the memory of movie lovers.