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Aleks says on 23/Dec/09
4 inches under Peck in heels. She was 5'8".
Beautiful in her heyday.
richinkle says on 22/Dec/09
It is possible that in scenes with Spencer Tracy they changed her shoes, or otherwise put him on a higher level. richinkle says on 22/Dec/09
It is possible that in scenes with Spencer Tracy they changed her shoes, or otherwise put him on a higher level. mcfan says on 18/Nov/09
Wait a second. I just rewatched Jeckyll and Hyde to go over my claims of earlier this day. Is it possible Ingrid was only perhaps 5'6? She looked smaller than I thought of 5'7 next to SPencer Tracy. I'm not suggesting I'm an expert on this women in judging her height, but she doesn't look like a tall woman to me. 5'6 or 5'7 tops. mcfan says on 18/Nov/09
Wow! Was she this tall? They must have made Spencer Tracy wear lifts in Jeckyll & Hyde because he had a couple of inches on her if I remember right. I always thought she was 5'7, but I never knew her height. Frank2 says on 2/Sep/09
Bergman was 5'8" not 5'9". If she had been 5'9" then in heels she'd have been at least 6' and that wasn't the case.
Bergman in CASABLANCA:
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Bergman with Hitchcock:
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Hitch was 5'6" prime and by the 1960's when I started seeing him in person he had lost about an inch. By the 1970s, Hitch was about 5'4". I know since I saw him many times when I worked at Universal.
Bergman dancing with 6'1" Tony Perkins:
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That's Yves Montand on the left. He was supposedly 6'2", but in reality I believe he was slightly over 6'1".
Just so you don't try to claim Perkins was 6'2", here's Perkins with 6'3" Gary Cooper:
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He's clearly two inches shorter and that shows in FRIENDLY PERSUASION when the two men are next to each other.
Here Montand looking at least two inches shorter than Arthur Miller who was reportedly 6'1" so go figure!
And Miller was noticeably shorter in photographs I saw of him taken with John Huston who was about 6'2.5" in his prime.
And here Miller appears to have shrunk considerably next to Ed McKeon who's about 6'1" and runs Motion Inc., a video production company in Hartford, Connecticut:
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Here's Ed rear left with his staff:
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Gotta stop! My head is spinning! Aleks says on 2/Sep/09
She was 4 inches shorter than Gregory Peck in high heels. adam says on 23/Aug/09
I disagree with you Frank here! Ingrid was taller than 5-8. 5-9 is probably correct. Frank2 says on 5/Aug/09
Except 5'8" Bergman didn't wear high heels with Grant. Watch INDISCREET. She wears low heels. In NOTORIOUS, Bergman wore ballet shoes which were discretely hidden under he long gowns. Grant was 6' even. He was an inch shorter than 6'1" Martin Landau in NORTH BY NORTHWEST. Grant was three inches shorter than Jimmy Stewart in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY.
It was quite common for tall actresses to either be barefoot or wear ballet shoes. Check out this production shot from MADAME BOVARY showing 5'7" Jennifer Jones wearing ballet slippers:
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Seen in the photo are Louis Jordan and Van Heflin. Jordan was roughly 5'10" and Heflin was 5'11". Had Jones wore heels she'd have ended up not being that much shorter than the two men. guyfrommars says on 5/Aug/09
Somehow she was always put together with short actors in movies. Humphrey Bogart (listed here as 5ft8, I would rather say 5ft7) was rumoured to stand on a box in their romantic scenes together in Casablanca. Hitchcock built a special platform for 5ft6 Claude Rains to interact with her in Notorious. When she got to co-star with 6ft1 Cary Grant she said "Finally I can put on my heels".
Someone here mentioned that 5ft7 Charles Boyer had 2.5 inch lifts in his shoes for Gaslight. Ingrid had to wear flats next to him, and Boyer looked a bit taller thanks to camera angles. I would say 5ft9 is correct for her barefoot. Gia says on 17/Apr/09
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Ingrid Bergman is pictured with actress Jennifer Jones not Grace Jones.
Great photos, thanx! kev says on 9/Feb/08
Look at this picture with 5'7 Grace Kelly.
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Ingrid Bergman was about 5'8. Just look at the picture with Yul Brynner, and he reportedly did not wear lifts in Anastasia. The other one is a picture with 5'7 Grace Jones.
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True Adam Adam says on 14/Jun/07
Even though most sources still say 5'10 for Ingrid, more are starting to say 5'8 or 9 I read somewhere that Angela Lansbury comments how they were both 5'8" and how she wore platforms to tower over Bergman. I think where the 5'10.5 comes from. THat's Ingmar Bergman's height Josey says on 17/May/07
the problem is that the idea back then was that men had to appear taller than tehir female co-stars to look more "manly"... Personnaly i think Igrid is incredibly gorgeous and an amazing actress... that's what truly counts in the end Rodney says on 9/Mar/07
Well, so what if she was a tall beautful woman. What we should care about is if she could act. If everyone was the same size and shape life would be such a bore. I am 5'7" and love to see tall beautiful women' I'm not afraid. Fabrice says on 14/Aug/06
Angelica, I do not agree. I watched hundreds of pictures of Bergman and I would rule out an height of 175 cm. She was not so stunningly tall, probably she did not exceed 170 cm (anyway some 3-4 cm above the average scandinavian woman of her time, I believe) Angelica says on 20/Jun/06
I think that most of the comments about women who are "too big", come from average to short men who are mad that a tall lady is rivaling their height. I hate that it makes a lot of women feel bad, even trying to knock a few inches off of their height. I don't see any boys trying to pass themself off as shorter. Tall girls should learn to embrace their height as the gift that it is. Ingrid Bergman was a tall and beautiful woman, there was nothing ungainly or awkward about her. Jonathan says on 4/May/06
I think Ingrid Bergman along with Grace Kelly, Julie Adams, Dorothy Ford and Marilyn Monroe were the most attractive women of the 1930s to 1960s. Ingrid's height would not bother me, I would have rather seen her tower over her co-stars like Bogart. That would have been cool. paleface says on 17/Dec/05
Yul Brenner also commented on how tall she was when they were making 'Anastasia'. I guess she was used to the drill of standing in ditches or working barefoot and she asked him if he'd like her to do the same. He made some lovely comment about how he thought it was great she tall and he didn't care if anyone knew she was taller than him. Sophie says on 29/Oct/05
Oh no Mr. X you should take a look at her movie "Spellbound". The first thing that struck me while watching it was her height. I knew then she was TALL. The movie had many full-body shots with her standing right next to Gregory Peck and we all know that Gregory Peck is at least 6'2-6'3. She was in a pair of shoes that were barely 2-inches high.
Mr. X says on 26/May/05
Really! I don't know too much about actors who worked in the sixties and earlier, but whenever it concerned height, I just compared them to everyone else in the movie. I was able to tell women actors like Lauren Bacall, Diana Rigg and others were tall women, but Ingrid nevered strucked me as one of those tall women. The funny part is that I had seen Casablance multiple times, and I thought she was around the 5 ft 6 range, but never anywhere near 5 ft 10. Did she do her scenes where she stands up bear foot or something?
[Editor Rob: Bacall wasn't 5ft 8.5 at her prime she was a couple cm shorter. Bergman I'm still not sure of. I know bogart's casablanca shoes were as suspect as they come, but how many times did you see a full length shot of bergman/bogart in the film? I'm certain that they employed various methods to make bergman appear only like a 5ft 6 lady.] sam says on 17/May/05
I've heard consistently that she was 5'10" at her peak. Some guys today think she was too big all around, but I think she was just about right. |
