Ingrid longed for her children. I just read her autobiography. It was painful to read the longingness for Pia, the letters, the price she had to pay, and endless custody battle with Petter for 7 years to even just let Pia have a vacation in Italy but that didn't succeed. The same thing happened with her 3 other children, they went back and forth between Italy and France that was tiring and traumatizing to them because of the custody battle with their father. She just had a career then just like women nowadays. There was such a stigma in those days. Now, it's normal for mothers to have careers. She stopped working for 18months when Isabella needed her. She was not a heartless mother.
I've watched many interviews with Ms. Lindstrom and the Rossellini sisters and they are not about to let ANYONE drag their mother or how her actions may or may not have affected them. That's what Mr. Guida is trying to do and I think his line of questioning is very really disrespectful, not to mention the interruptions when he's not getting the "gossip" he wants. Pia, Isabella and Ingrid have grown up to be class acts and I appreciate the way they share memories of their mother's legacy.
Quite right. to my mind interviewers get on my nerves many of them interrupt. People are asked on to shows and are not always allowed to finish their sentences. MSNBC's Ari Melber and Chris Hayes are guilty of doing just that. They have really interesting people on their shows & do get to say complete sentences.
Years ago, I worked for a couple of NYC news outfits, and surreal it was to be on the same staff as the reporters you grew up watching. I never had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Lindstrom, but always hoped I would. I exchanged hellos with Mr. Guida only a couple of times while on dinner break, but always appreciated his work. I really do miss this style of talk show, with genuine, natural, & interesting conversations. No phony actors who play to a studio audience with outlandish stories. These people among the many that represent NY television, and its good to see them again.
Bergman left because she couldn't stand the overbearing, domineering Peter Lindstrom any longer. By starring in films she paid for the expensive home they lived in, the fees for him to obtain his medical degree in the US, his comfortable lifestyle, Bergman paid for it all yet he even controlled what she could spend on herself. He would not even allow her to buy a mink coat because it was not 'practical' in southern California. Lindstrom also tried to act as some sort of de facto agent for her when he knew nothing about Hollywood. No wonder she'd had enough.
In her book she said he was stingy about money. She was cornered pretty much by a director to finally have freedom to spend on something and enjoy the money since it was flowing through the roof. She did and he got upset. He also interrupted her so many times to tell her how to behave and act. It was a pet peeve that kept getting worse, he would force her on the scale, telling her how many drinks she had at a party, her wrinkling her face to a point of annoyance, her posture, to be more quiet when out. He was dominating and~ mean it sounds. He also thought every man who talked to her were only interested in her only because she was famous not because she was a human. That I think took the toll of her saying “NO”. She said in her book when he said that, that was the moment where divorce began to become a discussion. This was before rossilini came into the picture.
@@quela8048 A friend of Lindstrom's asked him once why, since it was well known in Hollywood that Miss Bergman slept with many of her co-stars and directors and he said nothing . He answered, "The income". long as it didn't become public
loved this interview, these two have known each other for a long time. Hence the format of the interview, which I noticed not everyone liked. I did, it is two friends speaking about a family member.... truth. My Mother was from Sweden and her name was also Ingrid as well and looked like Bergman..... anyway I may be partial.
Thanks for a very interesting interview! Love the late great beautiful inside and out Ingrid Bergman one our finest actresses, of course! I don't think it takes a rocket scientist or psychologist to figure out why she got into acting in the first place, kept diaries, loved the camera and camera men! It was her way of keeping her beloved father alive in spirit and close to her in her life as she had suffered such great losses in her childhood! Seems perfectly reasonable to me! She had a love affair with the camera and the camera had a love affair with her since she was also so photogenic along with her daughter Isabella, another wonderful actress and former model. Also, beautiful inside and out. The "apple didn't fall that far from the tree" as the old saying goes! Isabella even sounds like her mother! Pia looks more like her father and of course was closer to him, but it's amazing how they all grew up to completely understand and support their late mother! There had to be and is still to this day a great love between them all. What could have destroyed them as a family like what happens in many other families, didn't! They're very lucky, indeed!
Ms Lindstrom’s understanding of her mother’s need to share her God-given gift with the world and not spend more time with her children is phenomenal and enviable. But sometimes she (Pia) is a bit harsh about the neediness of children (children are boring, what actress wouldn’t prefer to be with their film star family.) Mr Guida is trying to get her to admit to a deep level of hurt, but she resists because there is no deep level of hurt.
I read her book and absolutely LOVE IT. Never have I ever cried, smiled, laughed, got angry while reading a book. She’s soooo funny and heartwarming and she’s very much a human being with feelings and has faults and approached her faults and isn’t hide them. It was very difficult for her to get to pia. It sounds like she loved work so much she couldn’t nor didn’t know how to get back with her family. She was so invested around everything and didn’t know how to live on her own mindset because she even said she had men all around to tell her how to do things so she didn’t know how to be independent plus back then, woman relied on men for so many things. It’s sad that pia thinks her father was a wonderful person and wondered why Ingrid didn’t love him at the end. It’s as completely different act when you are being with a daughter and lover. You’re not going to treat your daughter like you do with your spouse. Things happen behind closed doors when you’re with your spouse and sounds a lot that pia wasn’t round during these uneasy moments~ “get on the scale, you’re getting bigger” “you’ve had 4 sherries now!” “Stop talking so much!” “You wrinkle your face too much when you talk” “stop spending money” these are not the conversations anyone would have when their 5 year old is infront of them. I for one don’t remember my parents having conversations like that let alone I don’t remember any conversations my parents had when I was that young because I forgot all of it. Our memory isn’t that strong to pick up on these moments. So pia wondering why Ingrid didn’t love Petter isn’t fair. They were lovers who didn’t live with each other until it came time of moving in together after fame and they started to realize just how married life came to be. Living together is completely different when you are breathing the same air for every day. You can grow to dislike someone just as fast as falling in love with them and that how it seemed in her book. It’s sad because Ingrid did say just how head over heels she was in love with petter Thad then the verbal assaults went and came and then it was the “I never make mistakes I’m perfect” from letters mouth that drove Ingrid to finalizing that she married someone who thought everything should be perfect and nothing should ever go wrong and “no one loves you because you’re a star and the only person who could ever love you is me” Ingrid took that personally as even anyone would. She believed everywhere who claimed their love for her was only for it for one thing and reason and it wasn’t actual love. So yea I can see why she wanted to leave, petter not wanting to divorce for YEARS before rossilinni even stepped into the picture.
Pia Lindstöm has a very beautiful bone structure just like her mother although I hardly see any resemblance (beside the mouth that is, and the laughter is a lot alike as well). Mrs. Lindstöm is a beauty in her own right.
Her son said it best if you don t write the truth about yourself , your sons would not be able to defend you because gossip will take over. We want trutihi Pia from you. And she did. So why go to the same ruminations ? She was an artist liike Gelenn Gould. Acnd what an artist. What a person. Le plasir du livre est de nous tous. Merci Pia
The interviewer is terrible. He is pushing and pushing his own questions upon her without giving her any space for improvisation and not even any space to contemplate on the questions .
She is not telling how her life was really like without her mother. The interview is not telling how the impact of being left when she was a child impacked her life. All she does in laugh which is very hard to look at. He mother was very selfish she had children and left them and only visited them once a month who does that. He daughter makes excuses for her mother.
You have your opinions. Indeed it is unusual to keep leaving your children, but Ingrid's start in life was unusual, her mother, father and aunt all dying whilst she was young. So she grabbed life and ran with it, maybe she too thought she may die early too. do not be hard on her. She passed away years ago. let her RIP
Not true. I read Ingrid's autobiography (I recommend it!). She was desperate to have all her children with her and meet them as much as possible. Peter was jealous and was anxious lest she should take Pia away; he would hardly let her see her. Likewise, Roberto wanted to keep his kids, in Rome, I think it was. They often stayed with her and Lars (her third husband) outside Paris though.
Actually, Pia's facial features far more resemble her father's, not her mother's. Her half-sister, Isabella, on the other hand, has their mother's facial features.
@simonsimon8572 What world do you live in? Men leave their children all the time, and nothing is said. women are ostracized for doing the same thing. Also, read what was said about her when Ingrid first left. The US Senate, that paragon of virtue, denounced on the floor of the Senate. You are so judgemental!
@@Celisar1 she fled to italy and got pregnant by a married man while she was married herself, she had the chance to see her daughter but she had to come to the US, but her husband roberto didn´t allow her, so she abandoned her child for a man, the kid was only 10 years old, if a man does that he gets trashed
Seriously, that was not only pre e-mail, it was pre-texting, and, bascially pre-telephone (stable, coherent connections anyway), and basically they were living on different continents, i.e. letters were their medium of choice for everything we talk to our closest girlfriend too - are you sure you would want your daughter, or hers, to have full knowledge of those conversations??
@@quela8048 .Ingrid wanted a divorce, he refused as wanted her income. He was very mean to her at times ( all mentioned in her autobiography). In one particular interview she refused to talk about him.
Ingrid Bergman.....i always was blank about her. Not warm, not cold....just nothing. Because she was so extremely correct and neat and civil and blank herself. She made a frigid impression. Anyhow in her films. Just not sexy at all. In real life she possibly was the opposite. I do not like people who take children and leave them behind.
Ingrid bergmans parents died early and that changed her. Also You can blame it on hollywood and the negative influence around her that made things worse. Her first husband was worried about that and he was right in the end. Only a few people walk away from hollywood without scandals. Also the biggest problem was that ingrid was an alcoholic and we know how that ends. She was a strong woman who was corrupted in my opinion.
@@Celisar1 She was....read her book. Biographer Laurence Leamer described Bergman as “a hard-drinking, hard-smoking woman”. The actress revealed that she didn't practice physical exercises and used to eat until four ice creams a day. “I do everything they say you shouldn't.
Ingrid constantly fought for her children against husbands who were controllingly abusive. Strange how a woman seeking safety and her own career is a bad parent, but men who leave are just playing the field. Ingrid was a good mother and her children's love for her proves that.
She wasn't "cashing in" on anything. Pia Lindstrom had a successful career in radio and television. Despite whatever hurt she felt towards her mother, she clearly loved her. The movie was meant to honor her.
I see so much of Ingrid in her daughter- she left a big legacy ❤
Ingrid longed for her children. I just read her autobiography. It was painful to read the longingness for Pia, the letters, the price she had to pay, and endless custody battle with Petter for 7 years to even just let Pia have a vacation in Italy but that didn't succeed. The same thing happened with her 3 other children, they went back and forth between Italy and France that was tiring and traumatizing to them because of the custody battle with their father. She just had a career then just like women nowadays. There was such a stigma in those days. Now, it's normal for mothers to have careers. She stopped working for 18months when Isabella needed her. She was not a heartless mother.
I've watched many interviews with Ms. Lindstrom and the Rossellini sisters and they are not about to let ANYONE drag their mother or how her actions may or may not have affected them. That's what Mr. Guida is trying to do and I think his line of questioning is very really disrespectful, not to mention the interruptions when he's not getting the "gossip" he wants. Pia, Isabella and Ingrid have grown up to be class acts and I appreciate the way they share memories of their mother's legacy.
Mr Guida should let Ms Lindstrom talk and not interrupt her at crucial moments.
All journalist interrupt they want to make it about them self
Quite right. to my mind interviewers get on my nerves many of them interrupt. People are asked on to shows and are not always allowed to finish their sentences. MSNBC's Ari Melber and Chris Hayes are guilty of doing just that. They have really interesting people on their shows & do get to say complete sentences.
It’s so interesting how children are so loyal to their parents. They defend them no matter what.
Years ago, I worked for a couple of NYC news outfits, and surreal it was to be on the same staff as the reporters you grew up watching. I never had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Lindstrom, but always hoped I would. I exchanged hellos with Mr. Guida only a couple of times while on dinner break, but always appreciated his work. I really do miss this style of talk show, with genuine, natural, & interesting conversations. No phony actors who play to a studio audience with outlandish stories. These people among the many that represent NY television, and its good to see them again.
Pia is class. I remember both her and Tony growing up watching WNBC. I like them both. But Pia is just class.
Ms Lindstrom.. very classy lady.
Coco dan and so beautiful. I always thought she was just as beautiful as Isabella. Pia was always my favorite of the sisters
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Bergman left because she couldn't stand the overbearing, domineering Peter Lindstrom any longer. By starring in films she paid for the expensive home they lived in, the fees for him to obtain his medical degree in the US, his comfortable lifestyle, Bergman paid for it all yet he even controlled what she could spend on herself. He would not even allow her to buy a mink coat because it was not 'practical' in southern California. Lindstrom also tried to act as some sort of de facto agent for her when he knew nothing about Hollywood. No wonder she'd had enough.
In her book she said he was stingy about money. She was cornered pretty much by a director to finally have freedom to spend on something and enjoy the money since it was flowing through the roof. She did and he got upset. He also interrupted her so many times to tell her how to behave and act. It was a pet peeve that kept getting worse, he would force her on the scale, telling her how many drinks she had at a party, her wrinkling her face to a point of annoyance, her posture, to be more quiet when out. He was dominating and~ mean it sounds. He also thought every man who talked to her were only interested in her only because she was famous not because she was a human. That I think took the toll of her saying “NO”. She said in her book when he said that, that was the moment where divorce began to become a discussion. This was before rossilini came into the picture.
Thank you for this fantastic history of Ingrid Bergman, bless you
I like Pia very much. She seems a well put together individual. Secure and sure of herself. All of Ingrid B's daughters are stunning.
Does anyone know why Peter forgave him many infidelities?
@@quela8048 A friend of Lindstrom's asked him once why, since it was well known in Hollywood that Miss Bergman slept with many of her co-stars and directors and he said nothing . He answered, "The income".
long as it didn't become public
Such a nice interview & such a nice woman, i love how understandable & supportive she is of her mother pursuing to have her career ❤️
He is SOOOOOOO annoying. Let your guest speak PLEASE!!!
loved this interview, these two have known each other for a long time. Hence the format of the interview, which I noticed not everyone liked. I did, it is two friends speaking about a family member.... truth. My Mother was from Sweden and her name was also Ingrid as well and looked like Bergman..... anyway I may be partial.
Thanks for a very interesting interview! Love the late great beautiful inside and out Ingrid Bergman one our finest actresses, of course! I don't think it takes a rocket scientist or psychologist to figure out why she got into acting in the first place, kept diaries, loved the camera and camera men! It was her way of keeping her beloved father alive in spirit and close to her in her life as she had suffered such great losses in her childhood! Seems perfectly reasonable to me! She had a love affair with the camera and the camera had a love affair with her since she was also so photogenic along with her daughter Isabella, another wonderful actress and former model. Also, beautiful inside and out. The "apple didn't fall that far from the tree" as the old saying goes! Isabella even sounds like her mother! Pia looks more like her father and of course was closer to him, but it's amazing how they all grew up to completely understand and support their late mother! There had to be and is still to this day a great love between them all. What could have destroyed them as a family like what happens in many other families, didn't! They're very lucky, indeed!
Ms Lindstrom’s understanding of her mother’s need to share her God-given gift with the world and not spend more time with her children is phenomenal and enviable. But sometimes she (Pia) is a bit harsh about the neediness of children (children are boring, what actress wouldn’t prefer to be with their film star family.) Mr Guida is trying to get her to admit to a deep level of hurt, but she resists because there is no deep level of hurt.
Another great interview from the great Tony Guida.
Pia Lindstrom is a very intelligent woman,very aware, and when younger also very beautiful, a true heir of her mother.
Pia closely resembles her father.
“When younger”??
She is very beautiful right here.
@@Celisar1 Yesss!!
I read her book and absolutely LOVE IT. Never have I ever cried, smiled, laughed, got angry while reading a book. She’s soooo funny and heartwarming and she’s very much a human being with feelings and has faults and approached her faults and isn’t hide them. It was very difficult for her to get to pia. It sounds like she loved work so much she couldn’t nor didn’t know how to get back with her family. She was so invested around everything and didn’t know how to live on her own mindset because she even said she had men all around to tell her how to do things so she didn’t know how to be independent plus back then, woman relied on men for so many things. It’s sad that pia thinks her father was a wonderful person and wondered why Ingrid didn’t love him at the end. It’s as completely different act when you are being with a daughter and lover. You’re not going to treat your daughter like you do with your spouse. Things happen behind closed doors when you’re with your spouse and sounds a lot that pia wasn’t round during these uneasy moments~ “get on the scale, you’re getting bigger” “you’ve had 4 sherries now!” “Stop talking so much!” “You wrinkle your face too much when you talk” “stop spending money” these are not the conversations anyone would have when their 5 year old is infront of them. I for one don’t remember my parents having conversations like that let alone I don’t remember any conversations my parents had when I was that young because I forgot all of it. Our memory isn’t that strong to pick up on these moments. So pia wondering why Ingrid didn’t love Petter isn’t fair. They were lovers who didn’t live with each other until it came time of moving in together after fame and they started to realize just how married life came to be. Living together is completely different when you are breathing the same air for every day. You can grow to dislike someone just as fast as falling in love with them and that how it seemed in her book. It’s sad because Ingrid did say just how head over heels she was in love with petter Thad then the verbal assaults went and came and then it was the “I never make mistakes I’m perfect” from letters mouth that drove Ingrid to finalizing that she married someone who thought everything should be perfect and nothing should ever go wrong and “no one loves you because you’re a star and the only person who could ever love you is me” Ingrid took that personally as even anyone would. She believed everywhere who claimed their love for her was only for it for one thing and reason and it wasn’t actual love. So yea I can see why she wanted to leave, petter not wanting to divorce for YEARS before rossilinni even stepped into the picture.
Very interesting to listen to 😊
Pia Lindstöm has a very beautiful bone structure just like her mother although I hardly see any resemblance (beside the mouth that is, and the laughter is a lot alike as well).
Mrs. Lindstöm is a beauty in her own right.
I thought her profile looked especially like Ingrid.
This interview occurred before all women were out working. Many of them mothers.
She's talking about Joan Bennett and Walter Wanger.21:13.
I wonder what Joan said when Pia told her "your scandal took our scandal off the front page?"
@@hcombs0104 probably “then buy me a drink!”
Her son said it best if you don t write the truth about yourself , your sons would not be able to defend you because gossip will take over. We want trutihi Pia from you. And she did. So why go to the same ruminations ? She was an artist liike Gelenn Gould. Acnd what an artist. What a person. Le plasir du livre est de nous tous. Merci Pia
Tony Guida wants Pia to agree with the image he has of Ingrid, which is negative.
I don't think he has a negative attitude towards Ingrid Bergmann.
I can't believe Tony Guida looks older now. When I lived in New Jersey, I remember watching Tony on CBS-2 & Pia on NBC-4. I sure miss the old days.
Ageing is a bitch, ain't it?
The interviewer is terrible. He is pushing and pushing his own questions upon her without giving her any space for improvisation and not even any space to contemplate on the questions .
No
I think she is deeply hurt person but buffeted by her privileged background
Passionate woman!
Pia looks somewhat like Tippy Hendren....imo
She is not telling how her life was really like without her mother. The interview is not telling how the impact of being left when she was a child impacked her life. All she does in laugh which is very hard to look at. He mother was very selfish she had children and left them and only visited them once a month who does that. He daughter makes excuses for her mother.
She made a choice not to be bitter towards her mother ,hate ruins your life
You have your opinions. Indeed it is unusual to keep leaving your children, but Ingrid's start in life was unusual, her mother, father and aunt all dying whilst she was young. So she grabbed life and ran with it, maybe she too thought she may die early too. do not be hard on her. She passed away years ago. let her RIP
She's probably not telling the whole truth, but I'm sure she also wants to protect her mother's legacy.
If a father has a career ok. But if mom does not so. Ingrid nursed her daughter through illness. She also never had parents herself
Not true. I read Ingrid's autobiography (I recommend it!). She was desperate to have all her children with her and meet them as much as possible. Peter was jealous and was anxious lest she should take Pia away; he would hardly let her see her. Likewise, Roberto wanted to keep his kids, in Rome, I think it was. They often stayed with her and Lars (her third husband) outside Paris though.
what about Peter?
Pia and her mother have a striking facial resemblance.
Actually, Pia's facial features far more resemble her father's, not her mother's. Her half-sister, Isabella, on the other hand, has their mother's facial features.
I honestly don’t see it.
If a father leaves his children he's a dead beat dad. Ingrid bergman left her child but it's OK because she's a star!
@simonsimon8572
What world do you live in? Men leave their children all the time, and nothing is said. women are ostracized for doing the same thing. Also, read what was said about her when Ingrid first left. The US Senate, that paragon of virtue, denounced on the floor of the Senate. You are so judgemental!
She didn’t leave the child, the father started a custody battle.
@@Celisar1 she fled to italy and got pregnant by a married man while she was married herself, she had the chance to see her daughter but she had to come to the US, but her husband roberto didn´t allow her, so she abandoned her child for a man, the kid was only 10 years old, if a man does that he gets trashed
I definitely would have asked for my mother's letters: cold
Seriously, that was not only pre e-mail, it was pre-texting, and, bascially pre-telephone (stable, coherent connections anyway), and basically they were living on different continents, i.e. letters were their medium of choice for everything we talk to our closest girlfriend too - are you sure you would want your daughter, or hers, to have full knowledge of those conversations??
Does anyone know why Peter forgave him many infidelities?
@@quela8048 .Ingrid wanted a divorce, he refused as wanted her income. He was very mean to her at times ( all mentioned in her autobiography).
In one particular interview she refused to talk about him.
Lindstrom seems so mean.
What? Why?
Es muy bella 💜 incluso más bonita que su mamá Ingrid Bergman :)))
Sorry pia. You should not have done this interview so biased against ingrid bergman
And yet she was blacklisted for having a child out of wedlock
Ms. Lindstrom is fantastic. The interview however, is insufferable.
Ingrid was a bad mother. Maybe she was a good, nice person, but a bad mother.
Ingrid Bergman.....i always was blank about her. Not warm, not cold....just nothing.
Because she was so extremely correct and neat and civil and blank herself. She made a frigid impression.
Anyhow in her films. Just not sexy at all. In real life she possibly was the opposite.
I do not like people who take children and leave them behind.
Ingrid bergmans parents died early and that changed her. Also You can blame it on hollywood and the negative influence around her that made things worse. Her first husband was worried about that and he was right in the end.
Only a few people walk away from hollywood without scandals.
Also the biggest problem was that ingrid was an alcoholic and we know how that ends.
She was a strong woman who was corrupted in my opinion.
@@B..P.. Ingrid was 3 when her mam died, 13 when she lost her dad. First I heard of her being an alcoholic.
@@B..P..don’t make up stuff.
@@Celisar1 She was....read her book.
Biographer Laurence Leamer described Bergman as “a hard-drinking, hard-smoking woman”. The actress revealed that she didn't practice physical exercises and used to eat until four ice creams a day. “I do everything they say you shouldn't.
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She was a bad wife and MOTHER. How can you live your beutful Daughter?
Ingrid Bergmann is dead. She has been judged. Let her RIP
Not at all.
She didn’t.
Ingrid constantly fought for her children against husbands who were controllingly abusive. Strange how a woman seeking safety and her own career is a bad parent, but men who leave are just playing the field. Ingrid was a good mother and her children's love for her proves that.
Pia is cashing on her mother who never stayed with her unlike Esbella and ingrid who are very humble
She wasn't "cashing in" on anything. Pia Lindstrom had a successful career in radio and television. Despite whatever hurt she felt towards her mother, she clearly loved her. The movie was meant to honor her.
Ingrid bergman older kid