Word: pia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles courtroom last week, Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman's lawyers were fighting for the court's permission to let her daughter Pia, 13, visit her in Italy. Pia herself was finally asked how she felt about it. A well-poised child with a hint of the freshly scrubbed beauty that made her mother's face world famous, Pia had graduated from junior high school only the day before. Her testimony, coming after a spate of harsh charges made by her father, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, against Ingrid's present husband, Italian Movie Director Roberto Rossellini, was candid enough...
While Ingrid Bergman awaited the birth of Roberto Rossellini's twins in Rome, her lawyers petitioned a California court to permit her daughter Pia to visit her in Italy. In her affidavit, Ingrid charged that Pia's father, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, "told me it delighted him to see me cry and suffer." Spluttered the doctor: "I don't want the child exposed to Rossellini. He ran away with the mother of my child. He seems to have a habit of living with mistresses while married to someone else. It has been quoted in the United States Senate...
From Countess Pia's point of view, however, it passed too fast. By 1948, her poetry had taken on a brooding tone, and Carlo's had become downright morbid: "I see death moving about in the room." One night in September of that year, Pia and her husband, the Sacchis and Sacchi's newest girl friend were all dining together in sophisticated splendor at the sumptuous Villa d'Este. "An ill wind is blowing for me tonight," murmured Sacchi darkly. Eying Sacchi's new girl, Pia asked a friend: "What...
...question was purely rhetorical. Pia knew just what to do. She went to the desk where her husband had checked his pistol. Then she faced Sacchi, took aim and fired. "It sounded just like the popping of another cork," remembers one of the bystanders. A moment later, Pia aimed the gun at her own temple and pulled the trigger once again. But the gun misfired. "It won't shoot," screamed Pia...
Last week, after a three-year sojourn in a Naples asylum, Pia stood trial for murder in Como. She readily confessed the killing in a 104-page deposition burning with passion. But, she said, "I didn't want to kill him, only to intimidate him." Why? Because the brute Sacchi had not only broken off their affair; he had done it via a form letter-sent at the same time to five other mistresses...