| Seducing Ingrid Bergman | |
| Author: | Chris Greenhalgh |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd. |
| Release Date: | 4 October 2012 |
| Media Type: | Print (paperback) |
| Pages: | 272pp (first edition, PB) |
| Isbn: | 978-0670922116 |
| Isbn Note: | (first edition, PB) |
Seducing Ingrid Bergman is a 2012 novel by Chris Greenhalgh. It dramatises the real-life affair between the actress Ingrid Bergman and the war photographer Robert Capa.
The novel opens in 1945, where France has been recently liberated by Allied Forces. Robert Capa has photographed the Normandy Landings and been parachuted into Germany, now he is kicking his heels in Paris, waiting for something to happen. As a dare, he slips a note under the door of Ingrid Bergman's room at the Ritz, inviting her for a drink, and the flirtation escalates quickly into a passionate affair. Ingrid has a husband, child and career back in Hollywood. Capa can't escape from his traumatic memories of the war or his addiction to the adrenaline high that he only gets from his work. Against his better judgement, Capa follows Ingrid to California, but both still have painful choices to make.
On 5 June 2013, it was announced that film rights to the novel had been acquired by YRF Entertainment, to be adapted for the screen by Arash Amel.[1] The film is to be directed by James Mangold.[2]