Ingrid Bergman by Grace Carter

Author:Grace Carter [Grace Carter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography/Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781612300986
Publisher: New Word City, Inc.
Published: 2016-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

After their house guest went back home to Italy, Ingrid and Lindstrom took a ski holiday in the mountain resort of Aspen. The plan was for her to travel to Italy in March 1949, with her husband meeting her there in May when filming of Stromboli was completed. Lindstrom, despite all evidence to the contrary, later said that he thought his marriage was strong and that Ingrid was faithful.

In Aspen, Ingrid pleaded with her husband to let her leave for Rome early. “But you’re not going to start the picture for weeks,” he said. Ingrid replied that she wanted to spend some time learning the language and traveling around the country with her director to get a feel for the place. (She said later: “I was just longing to listen to Roberto, to hear what he had to say, and how he said it.”)

In early March, Ingrid wrote to Rossellini: “I told him about our trip - Capri, Amalfi, Messina - but Petter got angry and said I was not going out to make a pleasure trip. It was out of the question that I travel with you.”

A few days later, she wrote again, “When I get home, I can wire you. I eat all the time and will become as fat as you like. If I don’t work soon, I’ll go crazy.”

By the time Ingrid returned home from her ski trip, the press had already begun to speculate about an affair; industry people had noticed her and Rossellini spending a great deal of time together in the weeks before he had gone back home. Two days later, she left for New York by train and would depart for Rome the next week. After checking into Hampshire House on Central Park South, she became angry at Rossellini for calling her at the hotel.

“For God’s sake telephone ten times a day if you want to be that stupid!” she wrote him on March 12. “It is also stupid to call a hotel that is in close contact with the press. There has already been so much written about us, I discovered when I came back from the mountain. My marriage was finished - from now on all my pictures are to be made by you - we hear in town. I followed you to New York, people say - a new triangle drama has hit Hollywood. On and on went the gossip columnists. I am very unhappy about it and don’t want to add any daily telephone calls. Please understand me and help me.”

Though Ingrid could not have known what lay in store for her, she seemed to feel that her life was changing. “I didn’t have time to say goodbye to people and get sentimental - not until I saw Petter stand at the airport, so lonely and silent,” she wrote to Rossellini.

Much later, Pia remembered the day her mother left for Italy. She was ten years old. “I remember her driving down the driveway because it was a long driveway,” Pia said, “and I remember her waving, and it was very sad.

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