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...threw up her Hollywood career to marry Italian Moviemaker Roberto Rossellini, was mass-booked into 67 neighborhood theaters in Greater New York last Monday, yanked out again on Thursday. The reason was painfully apparent to those who saw the picture. Written and directed, like Ingrid's last picture, Stromboli, by husband Rossellini, it is a murky turkey that gabbles about Christianity and Communism. "The fault," wrote New York Times Critic Bosley Crowther, "is quite plainly not Miss Bergman's ... It is notable that [she] has grown older gracefully, with more strength and beauty in her eternally interesting face...
Reminiscent in story and treatment of Stromboli (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950), Volcano is a far better film.* Against the island's rough backdrop, the yarn's primitive passions do not seem particularly excessive or out of place. Director William (Salome) Dieterle has made good use of Vulcano's sun-baked terrain, rocky mountainsides, bleak and barren vistas. Blending a documentary style with the blood & thunder, he has turned out some notable scenes: a raw, vivid tuna-fishing sequence, a scene of island women toiling in the cruel pumice mines, a colorful festival procession on nearby Lipari...
...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...
Shortly out of Naples aboard the Turkish ship Ankara, Eleanor Tatum saw a spectacular sight: Stromboli's volcano spouting off loud & fiery blasts. She had a brief stop at Athens on her way to Ankara for a visit with her brother, an engineer on the U.S. aid program for Turkey. After a flight back to Italy, she ran across a TIME story in need of a correspondent, covered it, happened by St. Peter's at the right moment to see the Pope at a beatification ceremony, then went on to Paris and London...
...Rome, Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman was working again for the first time in a year and a half. The job: dubbing in her own voice, in Italian, for the local version of husband Rossellini's Stromboli...