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Star of the Month: Ingrid Bergman
TCM, Beginning at 7 p.m.
The final evening of this month’s Wednesday night salute to the films of Ingrid Bergman on Turner Classic Movies features the legendary actress’s later works, beginning with Murder on the Orient Express (pictured), the famed 1974 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s beloved mystery novel. Bergman won her third and final Oscar, for Best Supporting Actress, in a film that features a large roster of big-name actors including Best Actor Oscar nominee Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Jacqueline Bisset, Sean
Connery, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins and Vanessa Redgrave. Next, Bergman stars with Anthony Quinn and Fritz Weaver in the 1970 romantic drama A Walk in the Spring
Rain; the 1969 comedy Cactus Flower, with Walter Matthau and Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner Goldie Hawn; and the 1973 children’s film From the Mixed-Up Files of
Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. The penultimate film in tonight’s lineup, airing early tomorrow morning, is A Matter of Time, a 1976 American-Italian musical fantasy costarring Liza Minnelli. The film marked the final project for Liza’s father, famed musical director Vincente Minnelli, the first big-screen role for Bergman’s daughter Isabella Rossellini and the final film role for Charles Boyer, who had also appeared with Bergman in the classic Gaslight three decades earlier. The Bergman celebration concludes with her final feature film, 1978’s Autumn Sonata
(aka Hostonaten), which brought her back full circle to her roots in Swedish cinema (teaming with legendary writer/director Ingmar Bergman, no relation) for a dramatic role that earned her a Best Actress Oscar nomination.