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When [Ingrid Bergman] left her Swedish husband Petter Lindström for the Italian film director Roberto Rossellini in 1949, it was the scandal of the decade. Divorce per se wasn't enough to shock Hollywood, but Bergman had played a nun and a saint on the silver screen and promptly came crashing down the pedestal. Newspapers called her an awful woman for abandoning her husband and child, and Senator Edwin Johnson of Colorado called her "a powerful influence of evil." After that, Ingrid Bergman stayed away from the U.S. for eight years - and didn't see her daughter for six.
"My mother didn't even finish drama school. But what she had, can't be taught," Pia says. "It was in her face, she had it instinctively. There was this playfulness, you could see the pleasure she got out of acting. It was also a contact she had with the camera... or perhaps with the guy behind the camera!""My mother charmed me, like she charmed everyone else. You'd just forgive her anything," Pia says. "Besides, when my mother went to Italy I don't think she thought about the consequences. You can't rectify everything. My mother had a great sense of humor, she wanted to play, and she was fun and easy to be with."See the full content of this document
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When Ingrid Bergman left her Swedish husband Petter Lindström for the Italian film director Roberto Rossellini in 1949, it was the scandal of the decade. Divorce per se wasn't enough to shock Hollywood, but Bergman had played a nun and a saint on the silver screen and promptl...
See the full content of this document
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