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...Venice for the International Film Festival, Rossellini shrugged off the missiles with the air of a matador dodging a flying pop bottle. He was stalking bigger game. Charging that RKO had ruined his Stromboli, the film that got Ed Johnson's dander up in the first place, Rossellini withdrew it from the Venice competition and pressed a whopping damage suit against the company. RKO, said Rossellini, had destroyed Stromboli by bad cutting and had damaged its box-office appeal by "improper" advertising (sample: "Raging Island . . . Raging Passions"). Cried Rossellini: "I feel like I'm living in the fable...
What shocked Colorado's moviegoing Senator Edwin C. Johnson most was the way RKO, in publicizing Stromboli, had made hay out of the Bergman-Rossellini romance-e.g., the torrid ads promising "Raging Passions . . . This is it! . . . Bergman . . . under the inspired direction of Rossellini." To halt further public exploitation of Hollywood's moral lapses, Johnson introduced a Senate bill which in effect called for the Government to police the off-screen behavior of all motion picture performers (TIME, March...
...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 for the newlyweds paid...
...motion picture performers. The idea came from Colorado's ex-oowpuncher Senator Edwin Carl Johnson, 66, who considers himself a friend of the cinema because he goes to the movies a lot. "Big Ed" Johnson was outraged by i) RKO's brazen exploitation of the film Stromboli in the wake of the Roberto Rossellini-Ingrid Bergman romance (see PEOPLE) and 2) the publicity given Cinemactress Rita Hayworth and her husband, Prince Aly ("Premature babies run in my family") Khan. Johnson proposed federal licensing of all movie actors, actresses, producers and distributors...
...Farmer-Author Louis Bromfield said in Kansas City. "A farmer to succeed needs to be part businessman, part specialist and part scientist." In Rome, Renzo Rossellini pooh-poohed reports printed by a Communist magazine that his brother, Director Roberto Rossellini, would renounce all his U.S. earnings from the picture Stromboli "for reasons of artistic dignity...