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Ingrid Bergman Returning To U.S. Saturday For First Time in Eight Years To Get Award
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By ROBERT MUSIEL
United Pratt Corratpondent
Paris iU.Rl Ingrid Bergman
it going back to the United
States Saturday for the first
time in almost eight years.
She will be there less than 36
hours, long enough to accept the
New York film critics awards
for her performance in "Ana
tasia." But she may be in for a
public ordeal and she knows it.
If she is worried, she doesn't
show it. She is in gay spirits,
excited about the trip and quite
frankly ready for questions
about a famous Hollywood act
ress who left her husband and
daughter to live with another
man and bear his child.
"Let them ask," she said. "I
will answer them.
"Sometimes people start to ask j
me something and stop because
they think they will embarrass
me. You had better warn people
who ask me questions on televi
sion or radio or in press confer
ences. I give answers."
Children Playing
I talked with Miss Bergman in
a quiet and very expensive suite
of a hotel in the shadow of the
Arc de Triomphe. She was
stretched at elegant length on a
chaise lounge, watching an arm
ful of handsome kids tumbling
about on the floor.
Her four-year-old twin daugh
ters Isabella and Ingrid, brought
me two toy animals to examine.
I remarked that the grave little
girls were beauties, though they
look nothing like their blonde
' Swedish mother.
. "And my son?" she asked
proudly.
Seven-year-old Roberto was
completing a modernistic draw
ing to have ready for his father's
return. He signed it, painstak
ingly, "Roberto No. 2. Like his
sisters, he speaks only Italian
and French. Like them, he is
dark-eyed.
"Very good looking," I said.
"He'll be a heart breaker,"
smiled his mother.
The ripple of laughter follow
ed Miss Bergman's words as we
talked. Life, she said, was good.
She had just spoken to her hus
band, Roberto Rossellini, who is
filming in India. She said the
telephone connection was so
good she could hear the kisses
crackling on the wire.
'Are You Happy?
"Are you and Rossellini hap
py?" I asked.
Ingrid stood up, a full five
feet, 10 inches, and acted out
her reply in Oscar-winning style.
"Whenever people ask me
that." she said, "I usually say:
'We are separated.'
"Then their faces light up
(she demonstrated) and they ex
claim 'Tell me all about it.'
"And I say: 'Yes, separated
(sadly). He is in India and I am
in Paris.' "
She laughed gayly. It is appar
ently a Rossellini family joke.
"Do you ever hear from your
ex-husband?" I asked-
"No, never."
...And your, daughter, Pia? I
understand she has taken the
name Jenny."
"We write to each other all
the time."
"Are you going to see her
again?"
"Of course," she said emphat
ically. "But not on such a short
trip as this. I must be back in
Paris for the play on Sunday. I
haven't seen my daughter in
years and when we meet again
I want it to be when we are
9-Ione, at peace.
"To see her for only a few
snatched minutes after all these
years, that would really be tor
ture." . Miss Bergman's back was to
me. She turned around and said
softly:
"She's 18, now, you know.
I asked her why she had not
been back to the United States
since 1949.
Likes Europe
"I did not leave Hollywood
because of anything that happen
ed there," she said. "I had gone
as far as I could go profession
ally. I like Europe. People tend
to forget I am not an American.
I am a European.
"Will I ever work in the Unit
ed States again? I do not know.
It is quite possible for the future.
I have another film to do for
20th Century-Fox, but I think
this one will be made in Europe
as was 'Anastasia.' My husband
and I can be together more often
in Europe. His work is here. We
both love Rome and Paris.
Miss Bergman is a sellout hit
now in the Paris stage version
of "Tea and Sympathy." playing
the role of a wife who gives her
love to a young boy to help him
prove his manliness. It is the
part that Deborah Kerr played
on Broadway and in the movies.
I glanced again at little Rob
erto and thought of what Miss
act after the mistake that should
be judged if you ask me."
I asked her what she thought
the attitude of American women
would be toward her.
Well, there was that televi
sion program man (Ed Sullivan)
who asked people to write in if
they wanted to see me making
pictures in America again," she
said. "I don't know what he ex
pected. I suppose he thought it
would be 90 per cent for me.
There were some good letters,
but there were more bad ones."
Miss Bergman said she won
dered it the letter writers were
really representative. I think she
also wonders whether other
women realize that, in her own
eyes, what she did took con
siderable courage and honesty.
"I tried to frame a sentence
as to whether she had any regrets.
INGRID BERGMAN
May Face Public Ordeal
Bergman told a magazine inter
viewer last August.
"All right, I had a baby be
fore I was married," she said
then. "It's not the first time that
ever happened to a woman and
it's not the last. You hear about
it every week. It's, too bad, but
there it is.
Happiness Counts
"And if the two people love
one another and marry, and if
they have a happy family, isn't
that what counts? Anyone can
make a mistake. It's how they
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Aline Mosby
Around
Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
Hollywood (U.B At least one
mature actress is not afraid to
lie about her age. Sylvia Sidney
says she's 46
and any wom
an who cheats !
about her age
"i sn't fooling
anybody."
Most a c
tresses over 23
in this town
dimple coyly
when you ask
the m when
they first saw the light of the
world.
According to the Motion Pic
ture Almanac and studio biogra
phies, all actresses were born
on a month and a day but no
years. The year is seldom listed,
and when it is, it often varies
with the truth.
But Miss Sidney arrived in
town this week from her New
York home with a fresh idea.
Career Started Early
"I am 46," she announced. "I
celebrate 30 years as an actress
next month that is, I celebrate
if I have a job. I first appeared
on Broadway when I was 16 in
the play, 'Crime.' .
"I'm always honest about my
age. Why not? To do otherwise
is such a hangover from the Vic
torian Age the day when the
public felt age was something
to be repelled by."
The tiny brunette actress is
making a rare appearance in
Hollywood for her first televi
sion show in a year, playing in
a period whodunit on "Climax"
Thursday night. Rehearsing for
the show at CBS-TV, she belies
her years with her black hair
and sleek figure.
Term Deplored
"The term 'middle-age' should
be taken from the language,"
she said firmly. "Middle-aged
should apply to people who are
30 that's the midpoint in life.
Yet we usually apply it to peo
ple between 45 and 55. Women
30 years ago were finished when
they were 30. Now life is just
beginning at that age.
"By 40 you're just getting
your foot in the doorway of
life," she added. "I've enjoyed
every age in my life and I don't
want to go back.
I bet you don't remember my
first husband was Bennett Cerf!
Recently I played in New York
opposite my second husband,
Luther Adler. It's a great feel
ing to work on the stage when
your ex-husband plays your
father:"
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