Word: stromboli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emissary from the isle of Stromboli named Monroe E. McDonald landed in Manhattan to tell an anxious nation the true story about Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman and Italy's gifted Director Roberto Rossellini. To Hearst's Manhattan Gossipist Cholly Knickerbocker, Lawyer McDonald confided that Ingrid's husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, was a strong, masterful man, to whom she had always given obedience and respect, but never true love. But when chubby, balding Director Rossellini came to Hollywood with a movie in mind, Ingrid was thrilled at the very idea of working for him. It was not until...
...Italy, Ingrid Bergman finished the last scene of her picture for Director Roberto Rossellini, joined him in a champagne toast to its success, then made ready for her announced retirement. Observers noted that changes had come over the volcanic isle of Stromboli, the film's major setting: village belles were wearing their hair in the windblown Bergman manner, children were prattling in English, most of the natives were moviestruck. Like Ingrid herself, Stromboli would never be quite the same after her visit...
Italian Movie Director Roberto Rossellini (Paisan, Open City), separated from his wife and son since 1942, told his lawyers to file divorce papers. He is still on the island of Stromboli in the Tyrrhenian, where he is directing a movie about life among the fishermen, featuring an amateur cast and starring Ingrid Bergman...
...first issue of Mike Cowles's tiny (4 by 6 in.) magazine had a picture of Ingrid Bergman on the yellow-and-black cover, as she might appear through a telescope focused on Stromboli. The longest story in the magazine was five sentences; most were told in one sentence that was merely a paraphrase of a headline. There were 25 departments (Science, Sports, Male & Female, Fashions, etc.). Among the biggest departments (four pages) was "Quick Predicts," a kind of Kiplinger letter in monosyllables...
...March, when Ingrid arrived in Rome, she moved into a hotel suite adjoining Rossellini's. On the way to Stromboli they visited Capri. In the ruins of a Greek temple at Paestum, Roberto plucked her a red rose from the ancient briars. In Stromboli, after settling down in a four-room, pink stucco bungalow with Roberto's sister and Ingrid's secretary, the director and his star tramped the black island hand in hand...