Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turin, an Italian Court of Assizes confirmed the annulment of the marriage of Film Director Roberto (Open City) Rossellini to Marcella de Marchis, mother of his eight-year-old son. Rossellini was thus free to marry Cinemactress Ingrid (Joan of Arc) Bergman, who was pressing hard for a divorce from her Hollywood surgeon-husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom...
...trouble was the singers. As La Scala's great Conductor Victor de Sabata put it: "In the old days we picked our singers; now we take what the impresarios have to offer." And with such Italian singers as Ezio Pinza, Salvatore Baccaloni, Italo Tajo, Licia Albanese and the Tagliavinis lured to greener U.S. pastures, Italian impresarios did not have much to offer...
...Ambassador James Dunn for help. In Dallas, 800-odd Churches of Christ members assembled, and 378 signed a protesting telegram to Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Texas Congressman Ed Gossett went with a delegation to the State Department where, he said, he warned officials that "if the Italian government runs this orphanage out of Italy, it may have a serious effect on congressional action on European aid funds...
...Wanamaker is an Italian-American laborer, Loa Padovani his wife and bearer of his four children, and poverty a regular tenant in their tenement apartment, in this adaptation of Pietro di Donata's "Christ In Concrete." Miss Padovani portrays calm acceptance and dogged belief almost perfectly and Kathleen Ryan, as Wanamaker's mistress, symbolizes the world in which right and wrong give way to strong and weak. Mr. Wanamaker lets himself be torn in two between the philosophies admirably; his final decision brings the film's conflicts out with clarity and force...
...Bicycle Thief. Italian Director Vittorio (Shoeshine) De Sica's carefully made classic of a worker and his small child hopelessly scouring Rome for a stolen bicycle (TIME...