Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they had known who I was, they would have fallen all over themselves to be friends." The most friendly folks he met aboard the Mary: "The stewards and the waiters." ∙∙∙ On his promise to be a good boy, Italy's charm-loaded Movie Director Roberto Rossellini (TIME, May 27 et seq.) got a three-month extension of his visa to stay in India, busied himself again by day shooting documentary films in the sweltering humidity of Bombay. As proof of his good intentions, Rossellini abandoned his suite in the Taj Mahal Hotel that connected with...
Even India's Prime Minister Nehru was dragged into the international to-do over the "business relationship" between Italian Film Director Roberto Rossellini and his connecting-suite neighbor in Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, high-caste Siren Sonoli Das Gupta, 27, wife of an Indian movie director. A delegation from the family of doe-eyed Sonali, mother of two sons, called on Nehru with the obvious purpose of persuading him to rid Sonali of Rossellini, 51. They hinted that Rossellini claimed to be a pal of Nehru's. Neutralist Nehru took sides instanter. "That rascal!" cried...
...Sonali's misbehavior, many Indians could find less than no excuse for it.* Sonali sneaked out of the hotel once during the week to see a movie. The film: Anastasia, starring Oscar-winning Cinemactress In grid Bergman Rossellini. Ingrid, in Paris, kept determinedly calm about the Indian uproar. Roberto, however, came closest to unburdening himself when he told some of New Delhi's staunchest citizens: "I have fallen in love with India. I intend to become an Indian citizen and not return to Italy." The week's developments were perhaps best summed up by Hollywood Pundit Sheilah...
Both hero and plot seemed the mixture as before. In Bombay, Italian Movie Director Roberto Rossellini, in India since January to shoot documentary films, was lodged in Room 544A of the big, baroque Taj Mahal Hotel. Next door, in connecting Suite 545, was ensconced a tall Indian woman named Sonali Das Gupta, 27, mother of two boys and wife of one of India's top film producers, Hari Das Gupta. Sonali had larger accommodations, presumably because her 6-month-old son was sometimes brought to stay with her there. The couple seldom emerged from their quarters even for meals...
...inept as our fair heroine. The romantic side of the story completely fails to be convincing. Scarcely looking like a simple peasant girl in either attire or manner, most of her role consists of staring into the hero's eyes after love-at-first-sight and screaming after him, "Roberto, Roberto" as he departs courageously into the darkness...