Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the young couple, However, the arrival of cleaned up ex-lover Eilert threatens to destroy everything.
Alex Segal
Norman Rutherford
Lars Schmidt
David Susskind
Philip H. Reisman Jr.
Bob Cobert
Ingrid Bergman
Hedda Gabler
Michael Redgrave
George Tesman
Ralph Richardson
Judge Brack
Trevor Howard
Ejlert Lövborg
Dilys Hamlett
Mrs. Elvsted
Ursula Jeans
Miss Tesman
Beatrice Varley
Berte
CinemaSerf
I was initially quite nervous about Ingrid Bergman's casting here. Her eponymous character calls for a woman with quite a cruel streak in her and I feared she might not have the wherewithal. Well, though she isn't great, she does well enough as the plotting woman married to the loving but underwhelm...
BBC
Talent Associates-Paramount
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