She was born in Stockholm 10 years after Greta Garbo. Both lost their fathers when they were in their early teens, but Bergman had a theatrical training her fellow Swede was denied. She came to international stardom in the early 1940s, when Garbo left Hollywood to live a reclusive life. Garbo had a luminous, androgynous beauty. Bergman had a fresh-faced ...

Katharine Hepburn, who died last week at the age of 96, was an exemplary figure in her life and in her work, a remarkable presence on screen, a striking individual off. Pauline Kael constantly used her as a stick to measure and cut down other actresses. Of Ali McGraw's inadequate performance in Love Story, Kael wrote: 'It is a ...