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...publicist in Hollywood's early days, then became known in the 1930s as the "Merchant of Menace" for exhibiting lowbudget, moneymaking horror movies at the famous Rialto Theater in New York's Times Square and who also helped import such classic "art" films as Open City (1945), Paisan (1947) and The Bicycle Thief (1948); in New York City...
Thirty years ago, a U.S. Senator rose in the chamber to denounce the "illicit affair" between a "popular but pregnant Hollywood movie queen" and a "love pirate." The pirate was the brilliant Italian director Roberto Rossellini (Open City, Paisan). The gravid queen was, of course, Ingrid Bergman, who had arrived in Hollywood from Sweden in 1939, a hefty 5 ft. 8 in. of raw material crying out for diet, plucked eyebrows and capped teeth...
...Italian film director who introduced neo-realistic films during the post-World War II period; of an apparent heart attack after returning from the Cannes Film Festival; in Rome. Rossellini made his reputation with Open City, a film clandestinely made in Italy in 1944, and followed this success with Paisan, Germany, Year Zero and dozens of other films and TV movies. His enduring companion was Actress Anna Magnani, who is buried in his family mausoleum, but he also had a highly publicized affair with Ingrid Bergman. Finally married in 1950, they parted...
...Paisan, by Rossellini. At the Harvard-Epworth Church, Sunday...
...earlier Italian neo-realistic film, Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (1946), is at Harvard-Epworth. This personal, improvisatory journal of six human encounters during the Battle of Sicily is, for many people, even more moving than Bicycle Thief, but has never had equal mass appeal...