"Bergman returned to Europe after the scandalous publicity surrounding her affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini during the filming of ""Stromboli"" in 1950. In the same month the film was released, she gave birth to a boy, Roberto Ingmar Rossellini (born 2 February 1950). A week after her son was born, she divorced Lindström and married Rossellini in Mexico. On 18 June 1952, she gave birth to the twin daughters Isotta Ingrid Rossellini and Isabella Rossellini. In 1957, Rossellini had an affair with Sonali Das Gupta. Soon after, Bergman and Rossellini separated. Rossellini later married Sonali Das Gupta in 1957."
"women's clubs and legislators in more than a dozen states around the country called for the film to be banned, and Bergman was denounced as ""a powerful influence for evil"" on the floor of the US Senate by Colorado Senator Edwin C. Johnson. Furthermore, Bergman's Hollywood career was halted for a number of years, until her Oscar-winning performance in ""Anastasia."" In Italy, ""Stromboli"" was awarded the Rome Prize for Cinema as the best film of the year. Initial reception for ""Stromboli"" in America, however, was very negative. Bosley Crowther of ""The New York Times"" opened his review by writing: ""After"
"had seen in the United States. In 1949, Bergman wrote to Rossellini, expressing this admiration and suggesting that she make a film with him. This led to her being cast in his film ""Stromboli"" (1950). During production, Bergman fell in love with Rossellini, they began an affair, and Bergman became pregnant with their son, Renato Roberto Ranaldo Giusto Giuseppe (""Robin"") Rossellini (born 2 February 1950). This affair caused a huge scandal in the United States, where it led to Bergman being denounced on the floor of the United States Senate. Ed Sullivan chose not to have her on his show,"
"Her final film for Hitchcock was ""Under Capricorn"" (1949). After a decade in American films, she starred in Roberto Rossellini's ""Stromboli"" (1950), following the revelation that she was having an extramarital affair with the director. The affair and then marriage with Rossellini created a scandal in the U.S. that forced her to remain in Europe for several years, after which she made a successful return to working for a Hollywood studio in ""Anastasia"" (1956), for which she won her second Academy Award. Although she made many films for Hollywood studios in subsequent years, they were all made in Europe, and"
"was helping develop vignettes for the film. Given the climate of the 1950s, this led to a huge scandal in India as well as in Hollywood. Nehru had to ask Rossellini to leave. Soon after, Bergman and Rossellini separated. Rossellini eloped with married Sonali Das Gupta, when she was only 27 years old and later married her in 1957 and adopted her young son Arjun, renamed Gil Rossellini (23 October 1956 – 3 October 2008). Rossellini and Sonali had a daughter together, Raffaella Rossellini (born 1958), who is also an actress and model. In 1973 Rossellini left Sonali for a"
"Need A Godfather,"" described by his daughter Lynn Rosellini as extremely hurtful to her father given his pride over his Italian ancestry. (The popular Oscar-winning film ""The Godfather"" was released earlier that year.) After leaving office in 1965, Rosellini returned to the practice of law, and also became a political consultant, specializing in matters of the liquor and entertainment industries. Over the years, Rossellini served as an elder statesman of the state Democratic Party, mentoring political figures including Washington governors Christine Gregoire and Gary Locke. In 2003, Rosellini was back in the news briefly when he was reported to have"
"a woman, another human being."" As a result of the scandal, Bergman returned to Italy, leaving her husband and daughter Pia. She went through a publicized divorce and custody battle for their daughter. Bergman and Rossellini were married on 24 May 1950. In addition to Renato, they had twin daughters (born 18 June 1952): Isabella Rossellini, who became an actress and model, and Isotta Ingrid Rossellini, who became a professor of Italian literature. Rossellini completed five films starring Bergman between 1949 and 1955: ""Stromboli"", ""Europa '51"", ""Viaggio in Italia"", ""Giovanna d'Arco al rogo"", and ""La Paura"" (""Fear""). Rossellini directed her"
"to be a thriller, which it was not — the plot was a domestic love triangle with a few thriller elements thrown in — and this ultimately led to its box office failure. However, the public reception of the film may have been damaged by the revelation in 1949 of the married Bergman's adulterous relationship with, and subsequent pregnancy by, the married Italian film director Roberto Rossellini. The film was not well received by critics. Bosley Crowther of ""The New York Times"" wrote that ""it seems that neither Miss Bergman nor Mr. Hitchcock has tangled here with stuff of any"
"and that Angelo Badalamenti ""contributes an extraordinary score, slipping seamlessly from slinky jazz to violin figures to the romantic sweep of a classic Hollywood score,"" but stated that Lynch ""isn't interested in communicating, he's interested in parading his personality. The movie doesn't progress or deepen, it just gets weirder, and to no good end."" A general criticism from U.S. critics was ""Blue Velvet""s often vulgar approach to sexuality and violence. They asserted that this detracted from the film's seriousness as a work of art, and some condemned the film as pornographic. One of its detractors, Roger Ebert, praised Isabella Rossellini's"
"Escort in Love Escort in Love (, ""Nobody can judge me""; ) is a 2011 Italian comedy film directed by Massimiliano Bruno. Paola Cortellesi won the 2011 David di Donatello for Best Actress for her performance as Alice. A woman named Alice leaves a wealthy house in Rome with her husband and her 9-year-old son. She's superficial and materialistic, and treats her houseworkers very badly. One day, her husband passes away in a motorbike accident, and leaves her wife with a lot of debts. Moving in the periphery with her son thanks to the advice of her old houseworker Aziz,"
"of acting became a ""rejection of glamour"". Her most distinguished work in Hollywood is in ""Wild is the Wind"", according to Wood. Directed by George Cukor, ""the American cinema's greatest director of actresses,"" he was able to draw out the ""individual essence"" of Magnani's ""sensitive and inward performance."" Her other well-known Hollywood films were ""The Rose Tattoo"", which she won the best actress Oscar for in 1955, and ""The Fugitive Kind"". During Benito Mussolini's rule, Magnani was known to make rude jokes about the Italian Fascist Party. She married her first film director, Goffredo Alessandrini, in 1935, two years after"
"du Québec à Montréal. Rossellini holds dual Italian and United States citizenship. She was married to Martin Scorsese from 1979 to 1982. After her marriage to Scorsese ended, she married Jon Wiedemann (1983–1986), a Harvard-educated former fashion model from Texas (now a Microsoft design manager). She has a daughter, Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann (born 1983) and an adopted son, Roberto Rossellini (born 1993). She has always lived near her twin sister Isotta Ingrid, while growing up in Rome, Italy or residing in New York City. Isabella Rossellini Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born 18 June 1952) is an Italian actress, filmmaker,"
"Film Classification in 2008. The film was banned in Australia, where it continues to be banned in its uncut form . In 1981, Anneka Di Lorenzo, who played Messalina, sued Guccione, claiming sexual harassment. In 1990, after a protracted litigation, a New York state court awarded her $60,000 in compensatory damages and $4 million in punitive damages. On appeal, court vacated the award because the punitive damages were determined to be unrecoverable. ""Caligula"" received generally negative reviews. Roger Ebert gave it zero stars, calling it ""sickening, utterly worthless, shameful trash"". Ebert wrote, ""In the two hours of this film that"
"Academy Award-winning ""Since You Went Away"" (1944), with Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Robert Walker and Shirley Temple, and ""The Brute Man"" (1946), directed by Jean Yarbrough, with Rondo Hatton and Jane ""Poni"" Adams. Johnson met her Trieste-born Slovene husband, George Dolenz, while performing in a stage play called ""Return Engagement"", but largely gave up acting after their marriage. She and Dolenz had four children, Micky, the eldest, born in 1945, and three daughters. After Dolenz's death in 1963, she married, on April 23, 1965, Robert Leroy Schmitz, a minister of religion who officiated at the wedding in 1968 of Micky"
"the US and Canada and $525,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $1,527,000 – one of MGM's biggest flops of the year. The Angel Wore Red The Angel Wore Red, also known as La Sposa Bella in its Italian version, is a 1960 Italian-American romantic war drama starring Ava Gardner and Dirk Bogarde made by MGM and Titanus. It was directed by Nunnally Johnson and produced by Goffredo Lombardo, from a screenplay by Johnson based on the 1953 novel ""The Fair Bride"" by Bruce Marshall. Giorgio Prosperi wrote the dialogue for the Italian version. The music score for the American"
"passages were altered to eliminate controversial content. Film historian David Thomson has described it as ""genuine social realism"" and that it ""suggests with pitiless clarity that the middle class cannot cleanse its conscience simply by enjoying Bicycle Thieves."" Europe '51 Europe '51 (, , also known as ""The Greatest Love"") is a 1952 Italian neorealist film directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Alexander Knox and Ingrid Bergman as a woman who's declared insane after her son's suicide. Long fascinated by Francis of Assisi, Roberto Rossellini decided to create a film that placed a person of the saint's character in post-war Italy"
"she divorced him. She moved to Washington, D.C. and began a long-term love affair with black actor-boxer Canada Lee, despite the threat of miscegenation laws. She founded Women Against War and continued, after World War II, to try to establish a Center for World Peace at Delphi, Greece. When rebuffed by Greek authorities, she purchased Castello di Rocca Sinibalda, a 15th-century castle north of Rome, which she used to support an artists' colony. She died of pneumonia related to heart disease in Rome, in 1970. Born on April 20, 1891 in New Rochelle, New York, she was nicknamed ""Polly"" to"
"Niro and Joe Pesci. Sharon Stone, playing Rothstein's wife, Ginger, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress (lost to Susan Sarandon). Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas () is a 1995 non-fiction book by crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi that depicts the story of the alliance of Mafia mobsters Lefty Rosenthal and Tony Spilotro and their exploits working in Mafia controlled casinos in Las Vegas. ""Casino"" covers the period through the seventies to early eighties when the Mafia controlled certain Las Vegas casinos. Pileggi focuses on the story of Frank ""Lefty"""
"of Kimball. Following her return, she became a heroine. Boston Democrat boss Joseph P. Kennedy exploited her fame for political uses and also tried and failed to seduce her. She ghost-wrote a book entitled ""I Sank Roger Kimball"" along with a frustrated writer named Ernie. Against the advice of her son George Enos Junior, she began a romantic and sexual affair with Ernie, who had been wounded in his genitalia during the Great War. She was frightened by Ernie's dark mood swings but resisted her son's advice to break off the affair. This ultimately proved fatal one day in 1939"
"Associated Press article dated March 12, 1950 reported that the film had not yet been shown publicly in Italy. It appears that few Italians had a chance to see the film until it was screened at the 11th Venice International Film Festival on August 26, 1950. ""Stromboli"" is perhaps best remembered for the extramarital affair between Rossellini and Bergman that began during the production of the film, as well as their child born out of wedlock a couple of weeks before the film's American release. In fact, the affair caused such a scandal in the United States that church groups,"
"next to his girlfriend the British actress Belinda Lee, who died in 1961 in a car accident in which Jacopetti was also hurt. Despite their early success with ""Mondo Cane"", controversy followed Jacopetti and Prosperi's careers. New York Times reviewer Pauline Kael dismissed ""Mondo Cane"", claiming that its advocates were, “too restless and apathetic to pay attention to motivations and complications, cause and effect.” Criticism became even more pronounced with ""Africa Addio"", which Roger Ebert called ""brutal, dishonest, and racist"" and claims that it ""slanders a continent"". Ebert's review was not based on the original film but on an edited"
"1950 in the United States and was a box office bomb but did better overseas, where Bergman and Rossellini's affair was considered less scandalous. In all, RKO lost $200,000 on the picture. Stromboli (film) Stromboli, also known as Stromboli, Land of God (), is a 1950 Italian-American film directed by Roberto Rossellini and featuring Ingrid Bergman. The drama is considered a classic example of Italian neorealism. Bergman plays Karin, a displaced Lithuanian in Italy, who secures release from an internment camp by marrying an Italian ex-POW fisherman, (Mario Vitale), whom she meets in the camp. He promises her a great"
"Woman"". Redman also appeared in a few films. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in ""Tom Jones"" (1963); and again for ""Othello"" (1965), in which she appeared as Emilia to the Desdemona of Maggie Smith and the Othello of Laurence Olivier. Her work on ""Othello"" also earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Redman married Charles Wynne Roberts in New York City in 1949; he predeceased her. She is survived by their three children and five grandchildren. Her niece is actress Amanda Redman. Redman died in Pembury, Kent, England, on 9 May 2012"
"her early earnings for specialists and hospitals. After once seeing a legless war veteran drag himself along the sidewalk, she said, ""I realize now that it's worse when they grow up"", and resolved to earn enough to ""shield him forever from want"". In 1945 she fell in love with director Roberto Rossellini while working on ""Roma, Città Aperta"" aka ""Rome, Open City"" (1945). ""I thought at last I had found the ideal man... [He] had lost a son of his own and I felt we understood each other. Above all, we had the same artistic conceptions."" Rossellini had become violent,"
"a result of her being ""duped"" by the director and producer, who used high-power telephoto lenses. Although she was dismayed and now disillusioned about taking other roles, the film gained world recognition after winning an award in Rome. Throughout Europe, it was regarded an artistic work. In America it was considered overly sexual and received negative publicity, especially among women's groups. It was banned there and in Germany. Lamarr played a number of stage roles, including a starring one in ""Sissy"", a play about Empress Elisabeth of Austria produced in Vienna. It won accolades from critics. Admirers sent roses to"
"in Italy, without informing the producers of his HIV status. Performers in one film, ""The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empress"", were Ilona ""Cicciolina"" Staller, who later became a member of the Italian parliament, Tracey Adams, Christoph Clark, and Amber Lynn. Performers in the other film, ""The Devil In Mr. Holmes"", were Adams, Lynn, Karin Schubert, and Marina Hedman. Subsequently, it was revealed that Holmes had consciously chosen not to reveal his HIV status to his producers or co-stars before engaging in unprotected sex for the filming. As his health failed, Holmes disingenuously attributed his condition to colon cancer"
"in a brief segment of his 1953 documentary film, ""Siamo donne"" (""We, the Women""), which was devoted to film actresses. His biographer, Peter Bondanella, notes that problems with communication during their marriage may have inspired his films' central themes of ""solitude, grace, and spirituality in a world without moral values"". Rossellini's use of a Hollywood star in his typically ""neorealist"" films, in which he normally used non-professional actors, did provoke some negative reactions in certain circles. In Bergman's first film with Rossellini, her character was ""defying audience expectations"" in that the director preferred to work without a script, forcing Bergman"
"it ""despicable"", and both major New York critics, Pauline Kael (""The New Yorker"") and Vincent Canby (""The New York Times"") dismissed it as ""junk"". However, in Europe, the film was uniformly hailed as a groundbreaking attempt to probe the unsettling sexual and psychological ambiguities generated by war. In 1977 she made ""Beyond Good and Evil"" (""Al di là del bene e del male""), which recounts the intense relationship between German philosophizer Friedrich Nietzsche, his friend author Paul Rée and Russian writer and feminist Lou Andreas-Salomé. They meet in Rome in 1882 and move to Germany in a failed ménage à"
"of cinema to portray reality and truth (with recalls of commedia dell'arte). In 1948, Rossellini received a letter from a famous foreign actress proposing a collaboration: With this letter began one of the best known love stories in film history, with Bergman and Rossellini both at the peak of their careers. Their first collaboration was ""Stromboli terra di Dio"" (1950) (in the island of Stromboli, whose volcano quite conveniently erupted during filming). This affair caused a great scandal in some countries (Bergman and Rossellini were both married to other people); the scandal intensified when Bergman became pregnant with Roberto Ingmar"
"which was one of the reasons she had played it on the Broadway stage in Anderson's play. The film was not a big hit with the public, partly because of the scandal of Bergman's affair with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini, which broke while the film was still in theatres. Even worse, it received disastrous reviews, and, although nominated for several Academy Awards, did not receive a Best Picture nomination. It was subsequently cut by 45 minutes, but restored to full length in 1998, and released in 2004 on DVD. Between motion pictures, Bergman had appeared in the stage plays"
"her column throughout the 1940s, advocating for her to land starring roles in ""The Bells of St. Mary's"" (1945) and ""Joan of Arc"" (1948). She was enraged when Bergman lied to her about being pregnant with married director Roberto Rossellini's baby. Hopper had believed Bergman, printing a fervent denial of the rumor in 1949. However, Bergman was indeed pregnant, and the news was leaked to Hopper's arch-rival Louella Parsons, who got the scoop. Seeking revenge, Hopper launched a PR campaign decrying Bergman for being pregnant out of wedlock and carrying a married man's child. Hopper had an acting role in"
"Europe '51 Europe '51 (, , also known as ""The Greatest Love"") is a 1952 Italian neorealist film directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Alexander Knox and Ingrid Bergman as a woman who's declared insane after her son's suicide. Long fascinated by Francis of Assisi, Roberto Rossellini decided to create a film that placed a person of the saint's character in post-war Italy and showed what the consequences would be. The film's sets were designed by Virgilio Marchi, a veteran Futurist architect. Industrialist George Girard (Alexander Knox) and his wife Irene (Ingrid Bergman) are a wealthy couple living in post-war Rome"
"""Giulietta Masina at the Oscars Crying"". She was married to McKellar, her long-term partner, in January 2010. Wright died on June 22, 2010, aged 50, from pancreatic cancer. Following her death, Wright and her ""Trigger"" co-star Molly Parker jointly won the prize for Best Actress at the 2011 ACTRA Toronto Awards. McKellar accepted the award in her honour, stating in his speech that the award ""means more to me than any I've ever won"". Wright and Parker were also both nominated for the Genie Award for Best Actress at the 31st Genie Awards, although neither won. Tracy Wright Tracy Wright"