“When people hear my mother’s name, they immediately think of glamour, or the awards, or the success and the fame,” says Isabella Rossellini, speaking about her beloved “Mama,” Ingrid Bergman, the three-time Oscar-winning star of Hollywood classics Casablanca and Notorious. “But Mother worked in five languages . . . and made films in Italy, Sweden, and Germany; she lived in France and worked in the theater. . . . She had this incredible sense of curiosity and adventure.”

August 29 would have been Bergman’s 100th birthday (she died in 1967), and nothing could have stopped her daughter—the successful model, actress, and filmmaker—from overseeing tributes to her; not even scoliosis-related spinal surgery, which forced Rossellini to learn to walk all over again two years ago. Her mother was in her thoughts even during the arduous convalescence (the first time Rossellini had this surgery she was a teenager, with Bergman by her bedside). “I missed her terribly,” she says, about undergoing the procedure this time. “All the memories came back. But it also made me feel quite guilty about ruining her life because I know she wanted to act, and for two years she gave it up to be with me.”

One good caretaking deed deserves another, and Rossellini has multiple projects planned to celebrate her mother’s centennial. A book, Ingrid Bergman: A Life in Pictures, includes over 350 images—many never before seen from the Swedish-born star’s archive at Wesleyan University—and a personal remembrance from her Autumn Sonata co-star Liv Ullmann. The documentary Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words, which debuted at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, features Swedish Ex Machina actress Alicia Vikander giving voice to Bergman’s personal diaries and letters, set to family photos and home movies—including behind-the-scenes footage of Stromboli and Journey to Italy (both directed by Rossellini’s neorealist-director dad, Roberto). Rossellini also planned staged readings from her mother’s out-of-print autobiography, My Story, with actors Jeremy Irons (London, September 6; Brooklyn, September 12), Gérard Depardieu (Paris, October 5), and Christian De Sica (Rome, October 10).

The result, she hopes, will be a fuller portrait of her mother’s “merry mind,” the phrase famed photographer Robert Capa used to describe Bergman. “There was something so charming and light and humorous about Mama. She looked at life with this incredible benevolence.”

Bergman’s pursuit of her passions “put her in trouble sometimes,” in Rossellini’s words, particularly when Bergman’s romance with director Roberto Rossellini became an enormous Hollywood scandal in 1950. But Isabella also learned from her mother to follow her “heart and interests,” and found it “a very good recipe for happiness.” Rossellini, now 63, is more interested in storytelling than acting, and her work ranges from studying for a master’s in animal behavior to creating the award-winning SundanceTV series Green Porno. From her home in Long Island she raises chickens and honey bees.

But she hasn’t forsaken acting entirely. In David O. Russell’s Christmas movie Joy, with Jennifer Lawrence, Rossellini plays the girlfriend of Joy’s father (Robert De Niro), a rich widow who funds Joy’s new business. The “charming” Lawrence, Rossellini says, made her think of her mom, because Bergman was the same age when she first experienced great success. “It’s a blessing, but it also changes your life so radically,” she says. “Looking at Jennifer . . . I had an idea of what my mom had to go through.”

Rossellini and her siblings plan to spend August 29 attending the opening of the Museum of Modern Art’s Bergman film retrospective, and then it’s off to an intimate family dinner, where they’ll undoubtedly raise a glass or two and say salute and skål to their Mama.