Word: rossellini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome, Ingrid Bergman announced that she and her director-husband Roberto Rossellini expect their second child in June. Said Rossellini: "We both hope our marriage will now be taken 'for the sacred, serious thing...
...into his loved one's eyes and breathes: "I haven't any right to do the things I do." Cesana reached his goal of TV lover by the usual circuitous route. Jesuit-educated Renzo was precocious enough at 16 to have his first play produced by Roberto Rossellini. He reached the U.S. in 1934 as a writer-actor for MGM, which was then making a series of Italian-language films. He has spent the past 15 years in & out of radio, advertising and publicity. In his few movie bit-parts, he is almost always cast as a priest...
...protest from any guardian of the public morals. But last week wicked old New York, which almost always gets first crack at a foreign movie, had still not seen La Ronde, and could not, by bureaucratic decree. The state censors, who burned their fingers this year on Roberto Rossellini's The Miracle (TIME, Jan. 8), refused to pass La Ronde on the ground that it would tend to corrupt the morals of its audiences...
...blamed Boston's Catholic Irish for the long, grubby reign of Mayor James Michael Curley. When gravediggers at a New York Catholic cemetery struck last year for higher wages, and Cardinal Spellman personally led the strikebreakers, Commonweal sided with the workers. When Catholics succeeded in banning Roberto Rossellini's movie, The Miracle, Commonweal's scolding movie reviewer wrote that "The end result . . . has been a semi-ecclesiastical McCarthyism...
...Ancient Question. Ava's open affair with a married man-following Ingrid Bergman's escapade with Roberto Rossellini and Rita Hayworth's fling with Aly Khan-has inevitably reawakened in some quarters the ancient question about Hollywood morals. It has brought her some censure (one letter writer habitually addresses her as "Bitch-Jezebel-Gardner"). Yet it actually seems to be helping, rather than hurting, her earning power. Reports Columnist Sidney Skolsky solemnly: "Ava worried. She lost weight. But now she has found that scandal can't hurt her." Her current picture, Show Boat, is breaking...