(Gregory Ratoff, US 1939, 70 min., 35mm)
Concert violinist Holger Brandt (Leslie Howard) is a man dedicated to two things: his music and his family. That is until he hears the beautiful, talented pianist Anita Hoffman (Ingrid Bergman), his daughter’s music teacher. When he asks Anita to accompany him on tour, the two fall passionately in love, abandoning his family and the lives they once led. Bergman’s debut Hollywood film, this wonderfully written, melodramatic rollercoaster finds her a distinguished and surprisingly perfect fit for the Hollywood romance. Bergman made this film not long before she moved to Rochester to be with her first husband, Petter Lindstöm, who was studying medicine at the University of Rochester. Preceded by a George Eastman Museum preservation of a short appeal by Ingrid Bergman for donations to the Red Cross in the middle of World War II.
Preceded by...
[Red Cross Promo - Ingrid Bergman]
(Unknown director, US ca. 1944, 2 min., 35mm)