Word: rossellinis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome, at their first birthday party, Isabella and Isotta Rossellini, twin daughters of Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman and Italian Director Roberto Rossellini, were neatly upstaged by their elder brother Robertino, 3, who did his best to beat them at blowing out their birthday candles. Half-brother Renzo, n, waited quietly in the background, apparently more interested in cake than in candles...
...Volcano was originally to have been directed by Roberto Rossellini, but after his romance with Ingrid Bergman began, Director Rossellini gave up the project and made Stromboli, starring Actress Bergman. Meanwhile Actress Magnani decided to go ahead with Volcano. Both pictures were shooting simultaneously in 1949 on two neighboring islands...
Some of the other sequences are much better. Envy, adapted by Director Roberto Rossellini from a Colette story, is the intriguing yarn of a newlywed wife, who is jealous of her husband's affection for his pet cat. Pride, directed by Claude (Devil in the Flesh) Autant-Lara, is a mordant study of an impoverished, aristocratic mother and daughter (well played by Franchise Rosay and Michele Morgan). The best episode is Gluttony, a Rabelaisian sketch written and directed by Carlo Rim, about a handsome doctor, who seeks shelter during a storm in the home of a peasant. There...
With a few old cameras, with war-battered city streets for sets and with amateurs for performers, directors like Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica have given the world some of the finest movies ever made. They gave Italy a major industry, and treated moviegoers everywhere to the likes and looks of fiery Anna Magnani and smoky Silvana Mangano. Italian painters and sculptors, artistically confined under the Fascists, have broken free. The earthy realism of such Italian novelists as Moravia, Berto...
...Roberto Rossellini, driving a 2,000 cc Ferrari ; he coasted slowly down the incline so that his personal cameraman could take pictures of his take-off (he dropped out of the race in Rome, the halfway point...