Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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modern screen JUNE 1950 What Future for Pia? BY CHARLOTTE EATON Which parent will she choose to love? For how long will Ingrid's daughter bear the scars of scandal? ■ The newspaper headlines were two feet tall about Ingrid's romance and Dr. Lindstrora's outraged heart. Wherever people gathered Bergman's name was on their lips and no one had to search for conversation. But untouched by the scandal, almost unnoticed in the heat of the gossip was twelveyear-old Pia, the innocent victim of her mother's indiscretion. Now the spotlight is on her. Now in the fight for her affections she is suddenly being thrust into the harsh and often cruel world of adults, and somehow she must grow up to cope with it. In two years, according to California law, she will be old enough to choose between her mother and father. What will her choice be? And how long will the scars of her parents' divorce remain with her? Until Pia makes her decision, and probably for long after, people will argue about the Tightness of it; they will rehash the story of the Bergman-Rossellini affair until it dies of exhaustion. Even now, Ingrid, more than Pia, is staggering under (Continued on page S6) Pia plays beside the swimming pool of her home while a custody battle begins between her mother {below, with Rossellini) and her father (here with his attorney).