Word: rossellinis
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...directors. Each story illustrates a different meaning of love: the kind that stirs the mating urge, the peasant's love of his land, the heights of religious passion. Each also serves to illustrate, with varying success, the characteristic styles of Italy's Roberto (Open City) Rossellini and France's Jean (Grand Illusion) Renoir and Marcel (The Baker's Wife) Pagnol. None of the films could conceivably have been made in Hollywood...
...Miracle (1948), Rossellini's last movie with Anna Magnani, is a curiously spotty film with an impressive performance by its fiery star and glimpses of the director at his raw, powerful best. It tells of a demented peasant woman who mistakes a strange passerby for a vision of St. Joseph. He sits silently while she babbles and drinks his wine until she falls into a stupor. When she finds herself pregnant, she is fanatically certain that she has been chosen for a holy birth. Scorned and humiliated by the villagers, thrown out of her cliff-dwelling by a grotesque...
...California court granted Dr. Peter Lindstrom an uncontested divorce from Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman nine months after she had gotten her Mexican mailorder divorce in order to marry Director Roberto Rossellini. Said Ingrid in Paris: "I'm happy that it's finally over." She added that she might be interested in making more movies, having more children. "You know how these Italian families are, ten or twelve ... I don't think I'll have that many, though...
Back from Rome sporting a dark green Tyrolean hat with a tiny brown brush, Playright Tennessee Williams assured reporters that Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini are "very happy together." As for Rossellini's onetime good friend, Actress Anna (Open City) Magnani: "The sexiest woman I ever...
...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...