Peter
Lindstrom was
born in Stockholm, Sweden, on 1st March,
1907. He obtained medical degrees from Heidelberg and Leipzig universities
and was working as a doctor when he met the eighteen year old, Ingrid
Bergman. After Bergman made a series of films in Sweden: Branningar
(1935), Munkbroggreven (1935)
and Swedenheilms (1935) the couple
married in 1936.
When Ingrid Bergman was invited to work
in Hollywood, Bergman also moved to the United States where he found
work lecturing on medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. After
the war he moved to San Francisco
where he developed a reputation as one of America's leading brain
surgeons.
Ingrid Bergman was also a great success
and with films such as Intermezzo
(1939), Casablanca (1942), For
Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight
(1944), Spellbound
(1945), Notorious (1946)
and Joan of Arc (1948) became
one of the most famous stars in Hollywood.
In August, 1949, Lindstrom and Ingrid Bergman
became the centre of a major scandal when he revealed that his wife
had abandoned Pia, their ten year old daughter, to live with the Italian
film director, Roberto Rossellini. Politicians became involved in
the case and one senator, Edwin Johnson of Colorado, denounced her
behaviour as "an assault upon the institution of marriage"
and described her as a "powerful influence of evil".
Lindstrom married Dr. Agnes Ronavec in 1954, and the couple had four
children: Karl, Peter, Michael and Brita. Peter Lindstrom died on
24th May, 2000.
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