Spellbound

Today, in my writing class, we were talking about dream-like treatments and branching beyond reality. I didn't do too well with my treatment, he felt it was too linear for the assignment, but I still loved the dream I wrote about... I was working on the Mary Tyler Moore Show... it was amazing!

I felt better at the end of class because our teacher said he wanted to show us a dream sequence from "Suspicion" and a couple of my classmates and I were like... what dream sequence?

He was like, "You know the one that Gary Cooper has..." and I said, "You mean Cary Grant?" And he said, "No, no, no..." (somewhat dismissively, which of course I took as a challenge) Then he said, "You know the one made up by Dali, I was going to bring that one in." And of course I said, "That's Spellbound, with Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman."

So after a while, he had me pull up the video off youtube so we could watch the dream sequence. I'm really glad this is the dream sequence he picked, because it helps me to think in "dream-like" ways not just "dreams," the difference being that dreams can be linear and he wanted symbols, colors and abstract (or surreal). I'm also glad that once again Ingrid has come to my rescue.

So here's the dream sequence and I hope you like it.

Sorry my posts haven't been consistant and I still owe you Casablanca... school is insanely busy so I'm trying to find time to watch the movie and really give you quality posts.

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For Whom The Bell Tolls

I just purchased a DVD copy of For Whom The Bell Tolls. It was on sale--which of course-- is AMAZING! lol.

Ingrid loved making this film and felt like it would end up more of a hit than it did. She cut her hair and went on location for a lot of the shoot, which were both out of Ingrid's norm in Hollywood. She was happy, but felt badly for the women who copied the hair cut. She said that she had professional stylists doing her hair while these women tried to recreate the look and ended up with crazy, short hair!

On Set With Ingrid

Here is a photo collection of Ingrid while on set. Enjoy! They're a great window into the real Ingrid (I suppose!)

on the set of The Visit

On the set of For Whom The Bell Tolls

On the set of Saratoga Trunk with Gary Cooper

On the set of New Wine

On the set of Indiscreet with Cary Grant

On set of Gaslight with Marline Dietrich

On Set of Anastasia with Yul Brenner

On set of 24 Hours in a Woman's Life

On set of Indiscreet

On set with Gregory Peck shooting Spellbound

On set of Anastasia with a kitty.


On set of Joan of Arc

On set (in my fave dress of all time) of Anastasia

With Ingmar Bergman on set of Autumn Sonata

With Daughter Ingrid Isotta Rossellini of A Matter of Time

Chillin' in the sun during the Inn of Sixth Happiness shoot

Rehearsing English Country style dance with Cary Grant on the set of Indiscreet