Roselini biography

Nationality: Italian. Born: Rome, 8 May 1906. Family: Married
1) Marcella de Marquis (marriage annulled), two children; 2) actress Ingrid Bergman, 1950 (divorced), three children, including actress Isabella; 3) screenwriter Somali Das Gupta (divorced), one son.

Career: Worked on films, in dubbing and sound effects, then as editor, from 1934; directed first feature, La nave bianca, 1940; technical director in official film industry, while simultaneously shooting documentary footage of Italian resistance fighters, 1940–45; accepted offer from Howard Hughes to make films for RKO with Ingrid Bergman in Hollywood, 1946; apparently fell out of public favour over scandal surrounding relationships with Bergman and later Das Gupta; television director of documentaries, 1960s.

Died: 4 June 1977, in Rome, Italy, of heart attack.

Films as Director:

1936

Daphne (+ sc)

1938

Prelude à l'apres-midi d'une faune (+ sc)

1939

Fantasia sottomari