Her role was difficult but her job was great...
She was deserved to win the oscar...Don't U think so?
After just recently seeing it for the first time, I have to agree. It was also a great script for the time it was written. A very picture perfect view of the 60s/70s. I really loved this film.
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Wait--were they even in the same category? I thought hawn won for supporting role, and Ingrid would have been nominated into lead actress.
They're so flamboyant and melodramatic, it just makes me want to set myself on fire.
She was SO HOT and talented at 55!!! God bless her!
shareI think she had a ball making that movie. I never really brought into the idolatry of Bergman. But I really enjoyed her in this movie and wish she had made more like this one. A Oscar, well for leading actress, at least a nomination.
shareI couldn't agree more!
Not sure she was nominated.
To answer the above questions Ingrid Bergman did receive some criticism because, like Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady four years earlier, Bergman was given a part that everyone wanted to see played by the person who originated the role on Broadway, Lauren Bacall. No one watching the movie on TCM or DVD today would know that.
If she had been nominated, she would still have been nominated in the leading category, regardless of screen time being equal to or less than the character Toni Simmons. Anthony Hopkins and Frances MacDormand both won Oscars in the lead category despite have less screen time. Their characters are the ones you imagine when someone mentions the film. In this case, the film is called Cactus Flower. It's her cactus, and she's the one who blossoms in the story. On Broadway it was a clearly a leading role for Bacall, with only her picture on the program.
And while I ADORE IB in this movie and think she deserved a nomination, have you seen The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie? Maggie Smith was excellent and I doubt anyone would dispute her win.
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I watched this movie again when it was played on Antenna TV two nights ago. I enjoyed it even more than the first time I watched it.
I really enjoyed Ingrid Bergman's performance in this film. She was perfect as Stephanie Dickinson. She and Walter Matthau were so great in their scenes together. I also really enjoyed her scenes with Goldie Hawn as well.
I think that Ms. Bergman should have definitely been nominated for Best Actress for her work in this film. This is definitely my favorite performance of hers.
Even if she had been nominated, she wouldn't have beaten out Dame Maggie Smith for Best Actress. Ms. Smith is an extremely talented actress and seems to win most of the awards that she is nominated for (from what I have noticed from watching awards shows since the 80's).
It is very clear that Ingrid was enjoying herself immensely making this delightful film! I had great fun watching it! Bravo to all-no violence, no bad language just a super script and good actors working with it!
shareI read that this was the first film that Ingrid Bergman had made in America in decades and that she really enjoyed working on it. It's really obvious to me too that she really enjoyed playing Stephanie Dickinson.
This movie is so funny and adorable. I wasn't born until the 1970's so this movie is kind of like a time capsule of the late 1960's for me. It is one of my favorite 60's movies and I enjoy it more every time I watch it.
Like you said, it's so nice to watch a movie with a great script that doesn't have bad language or violence in it. It's too bad that they don't make movies like Cactus Flower anymore.
I think Bergman was a wonderful actress, but I really wonder how she felt about doing this movie. After all the great films she had done, this one must have been a let down.
shareActually, it wasn't a let down at all. It was a successful adaptation of a smash hit Broadway play that ran for more than 1,000 performances. It was what we would call an A-List production, and she had a welcome opportunity to display something she rarely got the chance to display: comedic flair. She and Goldie Hawn were excellent, indeed superior to the material itself which, though very popular, reflected the "tired businessman" syndrome of the time period in which it was produced.
There is an anecdote told by both Bergman and Lauren Bacall, who had originated the role Bergman played on screen. Bergman, whose association with Bogart famously pre-dated Bacall's association with him, went to see Bacall in a play in NYC. At the stage door, and within earshot of Bacall, Bergman said to the man in charge of all backstage visitors regardless of their celebrity--"Please tell her the woman she hates most in all the world would like to congratulate her on her performance."
Thank you, thank you--you're most kind. In fact you're every kind.
I can't imagine.
It's one of the most stupid movies I've ever seen.
I kept thinking that realization did not escape Ms. Bergman.
It's interesting to see how she aged. She remained a beauty, but she almost didn't look like the same woman. She didn't age in a way I would have expected. She appeared to have a different bite.
I also never really noticed it before, but she was a really big woman.
Maybe it was better as a play.
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Absolutely. The only time this film made me care was when Bergman was onscreen, which thankfully was often.
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