Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing that reached the screen last week seemed nearly so exciting to cinemagoers as the off-screen crisis in the life & love of one of the cinema's top-ranking stars. In an announcement from Rome, Actress Ingrid Bergman, drawn and upset, told the world that she was quitting not only her twelve-year-old marriage but also her lucrative and laurel-sprigged movie career...
...point where I am made to appear as a prisoner has obliged me to break my silence and demonstrate my free will. I have instructed my lawyer to start divorce proceedings immediately. Also, at the conclusion of my present picture, it is my intention to retire into private life." Hollywood, which had already written off Ingrid's marriage, assumed that she planned to marry Rossellini, though...
...gawked at the idea that she was chucking the movies, then brushed it skeptically aside. Next day, in an interview in Rome with the New York Post Home News's Earl Wilson, Actress Bergman backtracked a little, but left it plain that she was fed up with the life of a movie star...
According to the testimony of Gustave Flaubert (James Mason), Emma Bovary (Jennifer Jones) was by temperament more sybarite than sinner. Corrupted by her early reading of "lush "romances, she developed a love of fine clothes and luxurious emotions which her life as a peasant's daughter did little to satisfy. Her difference from other women lay not in her tastes and temptations, but in her ruthless talent for translating them into fact...
Much to their credit Producer Pandro Berman and Director Vincente Minelli have stoutly refused to spice up the sin or gloss over the grimness of Emma's life. Instead, at a leisurely and often-lagging pace they have pried into every nook & cranny of Emma's avid, neurotic soul and the drab existence that nourished it. The handling of bumbling peasants and pompous tradesmen has an acid authority. One memorable scene-a whirling, overheated ball at a local château-is a wonderfully skillful projection of Emma's half-swooning sense of her own seductiveness...