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"Americans haven't been as nasty to any actress as they were to me. Elizabeth Taylor can get away with murder, but my pictures were taken off the market." Still, times have changed, admits Ingrid Bergman, 48, in the current Redbook, and so has she. The celebrated storm around her "love child" by Director Roberto Rossellini has died down, and the boy, Robertino, has grown into a strikingly handsome 13-year-old. In Rome to film The Lady's Vengeance, she spent a lot of time with him and her eleven-year-old twin daughters, Isabella and Ingrid. As a result of a long and angry custody fight, the children live with neither parent during the school year, instead have an apartment in Rome presided over by a governess. Even so, the thrice-married Swedish actress thinks things have worked out all right. "They're my friends as well as my children, and that's important. You get a wonderful feeling when they trust you enough to tell you their problems."
Music will be by Igor Stravinsky and script by Christopher Fry. It will be filmed in full-color Cinerama, and the stars include Peter O'Toole, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman and Maria Callas, who won't sing but might "hum a little." Still feeling that a bit more bounce is needed for The Bible, Director John Huston, 57, has added his bibulous knight of the Iguana, Richard Burton, to either narrate or play (but not raise) Cain. Did that mean Liz Taylor would also join the cast? Absolutely not, quoth Huston. "Perhaps there may be something for her in the sequel—when we do the part about Potiphar's wife."
Midst laurels stood: the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, 57, given the John F. Kennedy Award of the Catholic Interracial Council of Chicago, thus becoming the first head of the Presbyterian Church ever honored by a Catholic group; Fisk University President Stephen Wright, 53, elected a board director of the Association of American Colleges, the first Negro ever to achieve such a post; Swiss Sculptor-Painter Alberto Giacometti, 62, named for the $10,000 Guggenheim International Award, the U.S.'s richest art prize; Actress Patricia Neal, 38, Actor Albert Finney, 27, and Director Tony Richardson, 35, presented with the 1963 New York Film Critics' top awards for their work in Hud (Miss Neal) and Torn Jones (Finney and Richardson).