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Ingrid and Rossellini in Italy. She's said: "I want to live my own life just as any other woman."
dangerous paradise
■ Ingrid Bergman, by the time you read this, may be Signora Roberto Rossellini.
The fitting climax to as tempestuous a love affair as this world has ever known should be consummated. Those who caught fleeting glimpses of her in Rome before the conjecture of her possible pregnancy turned her into a recluse, cannot say whether or not she may have a child during 1950. Only time or a forthright statement from Ingrid or Rossellini can prove or disprove the reports that startled the American public.
One of the correspondents stationed in Rome, a journalist of great repute and integrity, Camille Cianfarra, called upon Ingrid and Roberto before the spotlight of publicity drove them from their apartments. He asked them about the published reports which had Ingrid "expecting" in February, and this is what Camille quoted Rossellini as having said:
"Whether she is or is not is nobody's affair. I think that report deserves neither denial nor confirmation because it is an attempt to pry into the private life of a woman who. to assert her right to her own life, has given up her career — which is what an artist regards as the most important thing in life. Isn't that enough?
"By making that decision, has not Ingrid as good as said to both her admirers and detractors: 'Look, I've fallen in love with a man who is not my husband. As an artist I have a certain responsibility toward the public and I may be criticized. All right, if that's the case, I no longer want to be an artist. I want to be a happy wife with the man I love .' "
Roberto also told Camille that Ingrid and he had been completely honest about the love they carried in their hearts for each other. When Dr. Peter Lindstrom arrived in Messina last year, "Ingrid explained things to him quite clearly. ... I want to make it clear that at that time the relationship between Ingrid and (Continued on page 62)
Ingrid Bergman picked her man, the life she wanted to lead — but at what cost? This is more than the story of a movie star — it is the story of a woman in love.
BY ARTHUR L. CHARLES