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Italy's swarthy, balding Director Roberto Rossellini (Open City, Paisan), on his first visit to the U.S., was taking the fast pace of Hollywood in stride last week. The telephone in his double suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel was kept ringing by cinema celebrities eager to entertain him. The evening he arrived, he dined with Ingrid Bergman (he expects to sign her up for his next picture). The next night there was a small, stylish dinner given by Writer-Director Billy Wilder. One morning David O. Selznick called...
...movie which Rossellini plans to make with Bergman is to be filmed in Italy and will not be the sort of thing that Hollywood would do with a major star. She will be the only professional in the company. ("I don't need stars," says Rossellini, "but I have nothing against Miss Bergman because she is a star.") The rest of the cast will be picked up on location. As usual, Rossellini will work without a script; except for a 22-page synopsis, the story's details are all in his head...
...National Board of Review bowed respectfully to Actress de Havilland, to Director Roberto Rossellini for his Paisan (which it called the best film, artistically, of the year), to Actor Walter Huston for his fine performance in Treasure of Sierra Madre, and to his son, Director John Huston, for writing the screen play of the same film...
Would Italy's best directors surrender to the invaders? Vittorio de Sica (Shoeshine) was negotiating with David O.Selznick. Roberto Rossellini (Open City, Paisan) was reported flirting with representatives of Sam Goldwyn...
Poison. Roberto Rossellini's six slices of wartime life in Italy, the best of them even better than his Open City (TIME, April...