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The Visit, Bergman and Rossellini


I just watched "The Visit" (1964) for the first time on FXM and couldn't help wonder if she took the lead role in this film because it reflected a bit of her personal life and how she was treated after her affair with Roberto Rossellini. The treatment her film character received when she was younger appeared to be a metaphor for the criticism leveled at her and her subsequent seven year isolation from Hollywood.

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Movie is thinly veiled dramatization of revenge desired when fallout from scandal, damaged Ingrid's reputation, when she left her husband or man who'd impregnated her. She had many rough years, due to her being ostracized by much of the World, starting in 1949. Her ex made seeing her child extremely difficult & he kept almost all of her $$$.

Read her Bio: "Notorious, the Life of Ingrid Bergman", by Donald Spoto, 1997 from HarperCollins Publishers.

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