When I was young, living in London, my parents took me to see Ingrid Bergman in Somerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife at the Albery Theatre. I remember very little of the play (a drawing room comedy first staged in 1926 with Ethel Barrymore in the lead) but what I do remember is Ms. Bergman. She made her entrance on crutches, to a standing ovation, as she had just sprained her ankle. At once she was radiant, shimmering, and performing with […]

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