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Good evening, this is Jimmy Stewart.

We're approaching the Burbank Studios, home of Columbia Pictures and Warner

Brothers. For much of her life, Ingrid Bergman has been making films in studios

like these all over the world.

She's entertained us all for so long that we thought it time to return the

favors. So tonight, just below us, right there on Soundstage 9...

We've gathered many of Ingrid's friends and co-stars to share a warm and

wonderful evening with her.

And we invite you to share it, too.

May I welcome you to an all-star tribute to Ingrid Murphy.

Yes, Jimmy, and entertaining Ingrid tonight are Jack Albertson, Victor

Borga, Joseph Cotton, Peter Falk, Cary Grant.

Monty Hall.

Senor Hasso.

Goldie Hawn.

Helen Hayes.

Paul Henry.

Frank Sinatra.

Richard Widmark.

Teddy Wilson.

Nelson Riddle and his orchestra.

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Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Jimmy Stewart.

Please save the applause because you'll really be needing it in the next hour as

we pay tribute to our wonderful Ingrid Burke.

And the nice thing about this whole thing is she doesn't know anything about

whatever we're going to do tonight.

Nothing.

And you can see we've sort of pulled together a few things from

Ingrid's... For instance, I guess this could be

classed as one of the most famous

sets in all of Hollywood's history.

Rick's Cafe from Casablanca.

And you know what? This is the very stage on which Casablanca was filmed.

So we have the original stage and...

If you please, the original doorman, Dan Seymour. Dan.

And the original bartender, Leonid Kinski.

Unfortunately, Dooley Wilson's no longer with us, but we've asked another Wilson

to sort of fill in for him, a friend of Dooley, Teddy Wilson. Teddy?

Yes.

Ladies and gentlemen, the distinguished actor and director, Ingrid, co-star

in Casablanca.

Paul Henry.

Thank you, Jimmy.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

for inviting me here tonight. Thank you, Jimmy, again.

It gives me great joy to be in a room filled with so many, many old friends to

honor a lady that I adore.

She was a darling person to work with, and it was a pleasure to do Casablanca

with her.

I first brought her into Ricks, right here, some 37 years ago.

And it is my honor to do so again tonight.

Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Ingrid Bergman.

Ingrid, you look lovely.

Just lovely.

It's so nice to be with you again.

Thank you. It's lovely to be here.

Please, for old time's sake, shall we have a drink here at Rick's? Please, sit

down. Thank you.

Of course.

Madame. The usual. There we are. Thank you.

The usual.

Absolutely. Thank you.

Thank you. Lovely to see you. Lovely to see you. Thank you, Senator.

Yes, please.

Cheers. Cheers.

Shall we say to Bogie?

Yes.

To Bogie. To Bogie.

And to Mike Ortiz.

And to Mike Ortiz. And to all the others that were with us.

Now, we can't leave Riggs tonight without one final memory, don't you

think? Ingrid, this moment, however, belongs to you, to you alone.

So I'm going to leave you now and join my three French friends at another

table.

All right?

Forgive me.

Thank you. And I stay on here?

You stay on, and Teddy, Teddy, will you please take a seat and play for me?

Miss Bergman?

In the picture, you asked Dooley to sing a song.

Yes. Can you still hum it as you did then?

All right, I shall try.

must remember this a kiss is still a kiss

sigh is just a sigh

fundamental things apply

as time goes by

and when two

lovers woo

They still say I love you on that you can rely.

No matter what the future brings as time goes by.

Moonlight and love songs never out of date.

Hearts full of passion, jealousy and hate.

Woman needs man and man must have his mate.

No one can deny.

It's still the same old story.

Fight for love and glory.

A case of do or die.

As time goes by

Like the man said, he's looking at you, kid.

A fight for love and glory.

A case of do or die.

As time, time goes

by.

Now here's the perfect way to continue this celebration.

The loving and the lovely girl who won her first Oscar in Igman's picture,

Cactus Flower, Miss Goldie Hawn.

Ingrid, I know this is a special night for you, but it's a special night for me

too because it gives me an opportunity to thank you in public for taking me by

the hand with so much love through my first picture.

I'll never forget that.

And I'll never forget that when I first met you, I was so nervous that I walked

up to you and I looked at you and I said, Miss Bergman,

I'm the most wonderful actress in the whole world and you're my favorite fan.

Oh, dear.

You were so wonderful then and you were so wonderful now to let us all gather

here in your name. And I want the whole world to know that just by your being

here, Variety Club receives a large enough contribution to continue helping

underprivileged and needy children.

All over the world.

Now, I know everyone would like to meet the guests at your table. And I cannot

think that I am the absolute perfect one to introduce everybody.

Anyway, here I go.

We've already met at me... Met Frank.

And seated with Frank is his wife, Mrs. Blue Eyes.

Seated with Paul Honreid is Mrs. Honreid.

Next, Ingrid's daughter, Pia.

He is husband, Joseph Daly.

Ingrid's daughter, Isabella.

And she is accompanied by her husband, director Martin Scorsese.

Conceived with Jimmy Stewart is Jimmy's wife, Gloria.

And seated with Ingrid is her son, Roberto.

Now, Ingrid, it's my pleasure to introduce the first lady of American

theater, your co-star in Anastasia, Miss Helen Hayes.

Thank you, Goldie.

And oh, thank you, Ingrid, for that welcome. And thank all of you for the

warm welcome.

Applause is music to the ear.

And when it comes from fellow players, well, then it's a symphony.

You know, Ingrid has described herself as ordinary.

Well, ordinary she is not.

Millions of people don't throw bouquets.

at ordinary people you do not give three academy awards to ordinary people

in the 40s ingrid averaged a picture a year in america creating

her own hall of fame of unforgettable women in gaslight

casablanca spellbound saratoga trunk notorious

arch of triumph

Not to mention the Bells of St.

Mary's, in which she played a nun, and Joan of Arc, in which she played a

saint.

The two roles that were assumed to haunt her when the public image and the

private woman collided in those more innocent days of Father Knows Best and

One Man's Family.

Yes, for a time, Ingrid Bergman disappeared from the American scene.

It was not until 1955 that she returned, and what a return.

Anatole Litvak cast her in a picture for 20th Century Fox in which I was to play

the Dowager Empress.

Now, here's a brief moment from that picture.

I have listened to Ingrid's claims that she is the long-lost daughter of the

Tsar.

I have told her that she's an imposter.

Overcome with disappointment, she has asked me to leave.

And here then is Ingrid Bergman as Anastasia.

I'd better go. I'm really not surprised that you do not recognize me. I have

changed very much indeed. You asked for just one moment. What is strange is that

you have changed so little.

It is as though the horror of all these last years has only made you stronger.

I am not strong, mademoiselle. Let me go. You are too clever for me. I'm an

old woman. My strength is only outward.

At least we met again. And we will another time when my mind is clearer.

But now... No, we better not meet again.

You have softened towards me, but later you'll regret it.

You say it was all acting.

She was some cheap little actress they hired for money.

Well, in a way they did hire me.

I was starving after I ran from the last asylum.

I had nowhere to go.

Brunin found me on the bank of the Seine.

Maybe there's more good to him than we think.

Maybe I should have run away from him too, but I was so tired of running.

Are you all right?

Yes. And if it is better for you not to believe.

You are ill.

No.

I cough only because I'm a little frightened.

It doesn't mean... Say that again.

Did I cough when I'm frightened?

When you were a little girl, you coughed when you were frightened.

Mayankaya.

Mayankaya.

One of the high points in my life, Ingrid.

In Ingrid's first motion picture, and in her most recent, she played the role of

a concert pianist. And here is a man who has played that role all of his life,

her dear friend, Victor Borga.

The producer asked me to play something straight.

And I'm delighted to try to do that.

You see my problems.

I have prepared a few things to play.

Of course... by a Swedish composer, obviously.

Mozart.

Johann Sebastian Mozart.

Mozart wrote in the key of C.

Who cares?

Now, where the heck is C?

They didn't mark the C here on the piano.

Could you play a C for me, please?

Is that the highest you can get?

Okay, Mozart, as you know, was only from here up.

You have all seen replicas of Mozart, of course.

Mozart was what we call a bust.

But to say he was happily married, in spite of that,

But Mrs.

Mozart wasn't, of course.

She went all the way to the floor. He stopped right here.

I'm going to play this composition, and I'm going to play it for, as you all

know, and that's why you're here, for the one great actress of all.

There are others, but they are not too alike.

And the one who is not alike is England.

Ladies and gentlemen, the murderer on the Orient Express, Richard Widmark.

In most of the pictures I've made where I've been bumped off, it usually only

took one actor to do the job.

But a few years ago...

I made one in which it took 12 of them to do me in.

Jacqueline Bissett, Sean Connery, Lauren Bacall, Michael York, Sir John Gielgud.

The list is endless.

But there was one on that list who has my vote for most unlikely.

Our guest of honor.

A lovely lady turned killer.

And as long as I'm up here, I'd just like to say, Ingrid.

you killed me best.

Now, this picture was very unusual for her because Ingrid Bergman,

international superstar of countless movies, winner at that time of two

Academy Awards and five nominations, accepted a role in a movie in which she

had only one major scene.

And that scene ran for only one minute.

But she had the courage to do it and the talent to make it stand out.

And for that alone, Ingrid, you're one hell of an actress.

Here then is that minute. Ingrid Bergman in Murder on the Orient Express.

I was born backwards.

That is why I work in Africa as missionary, teaching little

brown babies.

More backward than myself.

But I see that you have spent three months in America. Were you not able to

improve?

I was an international group for getting

money for African mission from American rich.

I speak Swedish to big audiences.

in Swedish-American institutions, in Minneapolis and other

big cities.

In ten weeks, we make $14,000

.27.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr.

Peter Falk.

Uh, Gary Grant once said that Ingrid Bergman dares to live truthfully.

The night that she received the Academy Award for the performance that you've

just seen, she dared more than usual.

I know because I was the one who presented the Oscar to her.

Before that black tie gathering of her peers and a worldwide television

audience, she displayed an honesty that is rarely if ever seen on such an

occasion. She frankly stated, that all the other actresses nominated in her

category were more deserving than she, and she went even further by publicly

naming her own personal choice for the award.

I'll go Dick Widmark one better.

You're one hell of a lady, too.

Many of the co-workers from Ingrid's films are here tonight.

Some of them you've already met.

Now we'd like you to meet the director of Ark of Triumph, Lewis Milestone.

The producer of Cactus Flower and more pertinent to this evening, the past

president of Variety Clubs, and now chairman of the Charities Foundation,

Mike Frankiewicz.

And finally, Ingrid's classmate in dramatic school, Signe Hassell.

What a joy it is to be here tonight, and allowed to...

share this very special evening with you and yours.

And so, of course, the memories rush by.

One especially.

The magic year was 1939, and the magic picture,

of course, Intermezzo.

May I present to you Sweden's Consul General, the Honourable Gunnar Axel

Dahlström.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Illy's Quorum Mere Labores is

the name of a medal instituted by the King of Sweden in 1785.

One of the most coveted distinctions a Swedish artist can receive.

It is awarded rarely and only to those who have shown outstanding

creativity.

in the cultural and artistic fields.

It is my honor and my pleasure to present this medal to you

on behalf of His Majesty, the King of Sweden,

Karl Gustav VI.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Joseph Cotton.

Thank you.

The year 1944 was an extremely memorable one for me.

Because that was the year I had the great good fortune to act in a film with

the lady we honor tonight.

The picture was Gaslight. It had superb performances by Charles Boyer, Dave May

Whitty, Angela Lansbury, and, of course, Ingrid Beck.

Whose portrayal of a shy, naive girl, slowly and subtly being driven mad by

her husband, earned for her her first Academy Award, Best Actress of 1944.

And here, then, is the final scene from Gaslight.

Come closer, Paula.

I never meant anything to you, and I believe I did.

Then help me, Paula.

Give me another chance.

Look. In the drawer of that cupboard over there, there is a knife.

Get it and cut me free.

Yes, I'll get it.

I'll get it for you.

Hurry, Paula.

There's no knife here. Yes, I put it there. I don't see any knife. I put it

there tonight.

No, it isn't here. You must have dreamed you put it there.

Are you suggesting that this is a knife I hold in my hand?

Have you gone mad, my husband?

Or is it I who am mad? Yes, of course, that's it.

I am mad.

I'm always losing things and hiding things, and I can never find them. I

don't know where I put them. That was a knife, wasn't it? And I have lost it. I

must look for it, mustn't I? If I don't find it, you'll put me in the madhouse.

Where could it be now?

Perhaps it's behind this picture. Yes, it must be here.

No.

No, where shall I look now? Perhaps I put it over here.

Yes, I must have done that.

My brooch.

The brooch I lost at the tower.

I found it at last, you see, but it doesn't help you, that's it. And I'm

trying to help you, aren't I? Trying to help you to escape.

How can a mad woman help her husband to escape? But you're not mad. Yes, I am

mad, as my mother was mad. No, Paula, that wasn't true.

Help me.

If I were not mad, I could have helped you.

Whatever you had done, I could have pitied and protected you.

But because I am mad, I hate you.

Because I am mad, I have betrayed you, and because I am mad, I'm rejoicing in

my heart without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you

go with glory in my heart.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Jack Albertson.

One of the few actors who ever received all three enviable awards.

The Oscar, the Tony, and the Emmy.

Thank you. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you.

And Miss Bergman, tonight you will understand if I'm a little bit

disturbed.

Disturbed by a rumor that you might retire from that screen.

A screen where we have all come to know and love you.

And I hope for one that such a rumor is not true.

But if there is any truth to it, I beg you to reconsider.

Quite simply, on behalf of everyone, you ought to be in pictures.

You're wonderful to see.

You ought to be in pictures.

And not just reruns on TV.

Your voice still thrills the nation.

Your face is still a door.

Each close-up a sensation.

And the Oscar is your reward.

I promise I'll always go to wherever your films are shown.

Like everyone else I know, worshiping at your throne.

you'll always shine as brightly as Jupiter and Mars

you ought to be in pictures our

star

chairman of Variety Clubs International and one of the best friends needy

children ever had.

And he's my friend. My hall.

Thank you

very

much, Jimmy. I appreciate those kind words.

And thank all of you for gathering here tonight for our fourth annual tribute.

By doing so, you are helping us help underprivileged and handicapped children

all over the world. And because of Nights Like Tonight and the generosity

of Sears, we're able to continue to do even more.

Well, three years ago, this very night, we were privileged to honor John Wayne,

Duke, the good guy.

I had just told him we were going to add the John Wayne Pavilion in his honor to

the Miami Variety Children's Hospital.

Been proud of having my name on many a marquee around this world, but never so

proud as knowing that it'll be on the wing of a children's hospital of the

Variety Club.

Two years ago, we honored Elizabeth Taylor and announced the Elizabeth

Taylor retardation floor.

at the Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City.

Who could ever forget that memorable evening we shared just one year ago

tonight in honor of Jimmy Stewart?

As a result of that evening, I am proud to announce tonight the Jimmy Stewart

Research Center that has since been added to the Minnesota Variety Heart

Hospital.

And tonight, another humanitarian is added to our honor roll with the

establishment of the Ingrid Bergman Pediatrics floor of the Blank Memorial

Children's Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa.

By allowing us to gather with you on television, you've made it possible for

us to add still another hospital wing where children will forever be treated

and cared for.

In your name. Thanks.

And now to introduce our guest of honor, Ingrid's co-star in two memorable

pictures. He's a man that every man wanted to be and every woman just

wanted. Cary Grant.

I suppose that usually a man would hesitate to introduce the woman with

whom he has been indiscreet and notorious.

But I proudly ask to have the privilege of introducing that woman.

And what a woman.

Dear Ingrid, ladies and gentlemen, Ingrid Boone.

turn to speak it's not easy after all that I have heard I'm sure you realize

how difficult it is to find the right words to thank you all my friends that

are here tonight and you've given me quite a few surprises so therefore I

thought I should give you a surprise because you don't know how long I have

been in the film industry

You see, when my father discovered that something new had happened, and that was

motion pictures, he was so enthusiastic that he went on my birthdays and

rented a camera that he cranked by hand.

That is me sitting in my mother's lap.

My grandfather and grandmother are behind me. That was my first appearance

on the screen.

That was year 1916.

Now here, I am two years old, and that is my mother who pushes me

around with a little wheelbarrow.

That was my first prop.

My father was now anxious to get in the picture. He's on the left side.

And my father told me that one day you will have great pleasure out of these

movies.

Now this...

is my mother coming up here, and I am very, very happy because there I can see

her move and smile.

I was always very polite, at least I was polite on the screen.

Now, I didn't know what to do.

Nobody gave me much direction.

Here I'm three years old, and I'm now coming to my mother's grave.

What you see to the left there is her grave, and I'm putting flowers on her

grave.

And that's why I was so happy to have those other shots before where I can see

her move.

Here I had learned to at least wave to the audiences.

A big car is coming up with more cousins and aunts and uncles from Germany.

And we start the same thing, kissing and saying happy birthday.

Now here.

my father thought i should be with a young person so this governess came into

my life and stayed for a couple of years here i wave more eagerly to the audience

i've grown a bit now and the same gesture i

couldn't get any further than that now here i'm sitting together with my cousin

who is here tonight and i hope that she enjoys seeing this little film Another

birthday. I must be about seven years old.

And my father missed the speed there.

I always loved to dress up and pretend to be somebody else. So here we dress up

in something, and we start a little dance.

But unfortunately, he missed our heads.

I must be about ten now.

And I'm having coffee and cake again.

My father didn't think much of the theater, but he adored the opera.

So here he's giving me a lesson.

He couldn't play the piano, but after all, silent movies, so it was all right.

And I sing as much as I could sing.

He trained me really for the movies, didn't he?

Because nothing came from my opera career.

This is...

a garden outside Stockholm, and we are celebrating another birthday. I am now

about 12.

And I am to the extreme left there.

You can see me very vaguely.

By now, my father had fallen in love with my governess, so he focused on her.

I don't blame him. Look how pretty she is.

This is the last.

I'm coming to our summer home.

outside Stockholm to spend my vacation.

I come with my one suitcase and I came off a quite small boat.

And ten years later, I came off a much bigger boat in the harbor of New York.

I wanted to...

Thank two people. I can't thank you all.

You know I'm grateful for what you've done for me today.

And extremely grateful to Variety Club for this lovely hospital wing

that is going to be made in my name. But I wanted to thank Catherine Brown.

She was David Selznick's agent and came to Sweden after she'd seen Intermezzo.

And she talked me into the contract to come and make Intermezzo in America.

And then I want to thank Ruth Roberts because she taught me English.

She's worked so hard with me to make me speak good English that when I had to

speak Murder on the Orient Express, I couldn't put on a Swedish accent. She

had to re-teach me how to speak with a Swedish accent.

I thank you all for the most unbelievably beautiful, beautiful

evening in my whole life. Thank you so much. Thank you.

All-star tribute to Ingrid Bergman.

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