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From the start of the Ingrid Bergman-Roberto Rossellini affair, patient, friendly Mike Chinigo (pronounced Kinigo), an Albanian-born U.S. citizen, had cultivated the confidence of the excitable Italian film director. He was helped by the fact that he speaks fluent Italian, picked up at home, polished (after Yale) at the University of Rome, and perfected as a war correspondent in Sicily and Italy. Chinigo got Rossellini to cast him as the concentration camp boss in Stromboli, quietly picked up stray quotes from Ingrid during breaks in the shooting. His stories were invariably sympathetic. Last week Chinigo's friendship...
...When the Rossellini baby was born last February in the guarded seclusion of Rome's Villa Margherita Clinic, eager-beaver U.S. and Italian photographers fell all over each other in the rush for an exclusive picture of mother & child. Enthusiastic bidders priced their interest at 5,000,000 lire ($8,000), and newsmen tried every imaginable method of invading the clinic, from offering bribes to the nuns on duty to scaling walls and pretending that their own wives were in the maternity division. But nobody got the picture...
...I.N.P. subscribers in the U.S., including the Hearstpapers, gave the warm, candid photographs a big splash. Taken by talented Papa Rossellini himself, they showed a lovely Bergman in short hairdo and maternal mood, a generally solemn-eyed baby. (But in one six-picture sequence, four-month-old Renato obligingly worked himself up to a bellylaugh under his father's skilled direction.) When Editor Mautner heard what Bureau Chief Chinigo had paid for the pictures, he redoubled his congratulations. The price: not one thin lira...
...began pouring champagne. "I know it's a strange sort of marriage," said Ingrid, "but ... I'm glad that I'm married." She wore a wedding gift from her new husband: a gold chain bracelet dangling a gold miniature policeman's whistle. To Mrs. Renzo Rossellini, the bridegroom's sister-in-law, Ingrid looked "transfigured with...
...actress fervently hoped that the marriage would end "the unwarranted persecution by the international press which has made our life hell by destroying our privacy." Only the week before, during one of her rare excursions from her apartment, Rossellini had had a brawl with photographers waiting to snap them. Complained Ingrid: "I cannot even take my baby out of this house because I know there will be a battery of photographers badgering us. I cannot even go to take a peep at my baby on the terrace because [of the] photographers...