10 Classic "American" Actors You Won't Believe Are Actually Foreign
3. Ingrid Bergman Of all the gin joints, of all the world, she walks into mine is the quote from the dour Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca about the beautiful Ingrid Bergman. Born in Sweden, she was brought to the USA as a pet project for David O. Selznick in 1939. She was described as not being able to speak a word of English and too tall with a name sounding too German and eyebrows too thick. How that rapidly changed as she went on to play one of the most iconic roles in world of cinema just three years later in the aforementioned Casablanca. Her range was evident playing the virtuous woman being terrorized by Charles Boyer to the point of madness in Gaslight, to the dark, seductive secret agent in Alfred Hitchcocks Notorious, but she gained true notoriety with her affair with famed Italian Neo-realist, Roberto Rossellini, as she began to work in Italian Neo-realist films such as Voyage to Italy. One of the true beauties of Classic Hollywood, there is no comparison to her grace and beauty on-screen.