Word: film
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swiss Producer Oertel now lives in the U.S.-occupied town of Wiesbaden, where he is working on a new documentary film (in color) on the life, times and work of 16th Century Flemish Painter Pieter Bruegel...
...minute travelogue of Stromboli in an 89-minute film. When things get dull, they throw in a little...
...public turmoil that a whole stable of pressagents could hardly reproduce. Church groups, women's clubs, legislators and local censors in more than a dozen states joined in demands that the picture be banned. At least one movie exhibitors' association urged its members not to book the film. Movie bigwigs ordered a sequence of Actress Bergman in Joan of Arc snipped from a screen anthology of famous historical scenes...
...some took up the cudgels as ardently in Stromboli's behalf, among them the American Civil Liberties Union. The Roman Catholic Legion of Decency found the movie acceptable for adults, explaining: "It is our policy to judge the film itself, not the actors...
From Rome, Director Rossellini added one more note to the controversy. RKO's Stromboli, he claimed, "differs substantially" from the film he made. But he was more concerned with his own affairs. Actress Bergman's Mexican divorce from Dr. Peter Lindstrom had come through ahead of schedule; to head off any attempt by Dr. Lindstrom to claim Ingrid's ten-day-old son, he registered the baby as Renato Roberto Giusto Giuseppe Rossellini, "mother ... to be named later." Then he hurried plans to marry the mother...