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Ingrid Bergman: Roberto Rossellini
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In 1949 Bergman met director Roberto Rossellini. She fell in love with him while performing in his film Stromboli (1950). Bergman left both her husband, Dr. Aron Petter Lindström and their daughter Pia Lindström for Rossellini, and they married and had 3 children, including twin daughters actresses Isabella Rossellini Isotta Rossellini, and son, Roberto Ingmar Rossellini. The affair caused was a scandal in both Hollywood and with the public; Bergman, who was pregnant at the time of the marriage, was branded as "Hollywood's apostle of degradation" and forced to leave the States.
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In 1949, Bergman met Italian director Roberto Rossellini in order to make the film Stromboli (1950), after having been a fan of two of his previous films that she had seen while in the United States. During the making of this movie, she fell in love with him and became pregnant with a son, Roberto Ingmar Rossellini (born February 7, 1950).
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Bergman had admired the work of Italian neo-realist director, Roberto Rossellini, for several years before sending him a fan letter. In the note, she told him she was available for any film roles he might have. Bergman hoped that making a film with Rossellini would jump start her career. Rossellini rewrote a part in his new script for her. The movie was Stromboli (1949). During the course of making the film, Bergman and Rossellini had a love affair, though both were married to other people.
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Dr. Lindstrom refused to consent to the divorce, and the heated Bergman-Rossellini romance began making the gossip columns. Always painfully honest, Bergman didn't try to keep her love a secret. Rossellini flamboyantly reveled in the notoriety. By the time little Robertino was born, Bergman's career had already slipped. The newspapers, loudly critical of the affair, pontificated on the birth of the child. "St. Joan" had committed adultery.
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If Notorious served as a high point in her career, [Ingrid] Bergman's extramarital relationship with Italian director Roberto Rossellini in 1949 marked the low ebb. Bergman became persona non grata in Hollywood--in all of America--when she abandoned her husband since 1937, the dentist Dr. Peter Lindstrom, and their daughter, Pia, for Rossellini, whose child she was carrying. Bergman was labeled "a free-love cultist" on the floor of the United States Senate, and the equally hypocritical Hollywood power brokers refused her services until 1956, when she starred in and won a Best Actress Oscar for Anastasia, which had been filmed in England.
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Bergman's personal and professional life went into a tailspin in 1949 after she left her husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, for Italian director Roberto Rossellini. She married Rossellini, a union which produced three children and six films of varying artistic merit, beginning with Stromboli (1950). The international scandal tarnished her innocent image and, extraordinarily, led to her being barred from American films for 7 years.
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