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When Rome's picture weekly, La Setti-mana Incom, hit the newsstands last week, Italians took one look at its cover and rushed to buy. Although Ingrid Bergman has permitted no photographs of herself and child, Incom's cover showed a joyful Ingrid cooing to her newborn babe in a hospital room, while Roberto Rossellini, the doctor, the nurse and even the Madonna (from a painting on the wall) seemed to beam with approval. Incom's teasing caption: "The Strange Story of This Photograph...
Stromboli (RKO Radio). Any film by Director Roberto Rossellini and Actress Ingrid Bergman would seem anti-climactic after their own stormy, thoroughly publicized private lives. As an anticlimax in moviemaking, this one can stand on its own feet. A bleak, draggy little picture, it fulfills neither RKO's prurient advertising claims, nor Rossellini's obviously artistic intentions...
...Actress Bergman plays a piece of postwar European flotsam. As a desperate means of getting out of a D.P. camp, she marries a simple Italian fisherman (Mario Vitale) and follows him to his native Stromboli, a volcanic island where life is primitive and the islanders hostile. She is appalled to find it no less a prison than the camp she has left...
...could hardly reproduce. Church groups, women's clubs, legislators and local censors in more than a dozen states joined in demands that the picture be banned. At least one movie exhibitors' association urged its members not to book the film. Movie bigwigs ordered a sequence of Actress Bergman in Joan of Arc snipped from a screen anthology of famous historical scenes...
From Rome, Director Rossellini added one more note to the controversy. RKO's Stromboli, he claimed, "differs substantially" from the film he made. But he was more concerned with his own affairs. Actress Bergman's Mexican divorce from Dr. Peter Lindstrom had come through ahead of schedule; to head off any attempt by Dr. Lindstrom to claim Ingrid's ten-day-old son, he registered the baby as Renato Roberto Giusto Giuseppe Rossellini, "mother ... to be named later." Then he hurried plans to marry the mother...