Dr. Petter Lindstrom, 93, Ingrid Bergman's ex-husband
Fata Morgana
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dr. Petter Lindstrom, a neurosurgeon who was abandoned by wife Ingrid
Bergman in a high-profile affair a half-century ago, died in his Sonoma, Calif., home. He
was 93.
Lindstrom, who died May 24, was married to Bergman for 10 years, moving with her from
Sweden to the United States when her acting career took off here in the late '30s and
early '40s.
Bergman began an affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini in 1948, leaving her
husband and their daughter, Pia, to live with Rossellini in Italy. She bore him a son,
Roberto.
The love triangle and out-of-wedlock birth shocked Bergman fans who were used to seeing
the screen idol playing nuns and martyrs. The U.S. Senate even denounced the affair from
the floor.
She divorced Lindstrom in 1950 to marry Rossellini, and their eight-year marriage produced
two more children, Ingrid and Isabella. Isabella Rossellini became a noted actress in her
own right. Bergman died in 1982.
Lindstrom remained bitter about Bergman's abandonment and helped biographer Laurence
Leamer portray her as a promiscuous woman more concerned about her acting than her
children in the 1986 book ``As Time Goes By, The Life of Ingrid Bergman.''
He was a dentist and eight years older than Bergman when they married in Stockholm. After
joining his wife in Hollywood, he switched from dentistry to brain surgery and became a
U.S. citizen.
Lindstrom later taught neurosurgery at the University of California, Los Angeles. He held
a practice in San Francisco from 1964 until 1978 before relocating to San Diego.
He is survived by his wife, Dr. Agnes Ronavec; daughter, Pia, of New York City; four
children with Ronavec; and eight grandchildren.
Cheers,
Fata Morgana
Terrymelin
scandal was still alive? And he outlived his ex-wife by almost 18 years and
Rosselini by what 20 or more?
Terry Ellsworth
Brad Ferguson
<terry...@aol.com> wrote:
Pia Lindstrom was the theater critic for Channel 4 in NYC for many
years. She had to review one of her mother's stage performances once,
and there was no sense, no whiff of any resentment by her toward
Bergman. Instead, Lindstrom talked happily about how proud she was of
her.
Maybe her dad held a grudge against Bergman (understandable), but I
think any implication that the adult Pia felt the same way is at least
open to question. (The teenaged Pia's testimony against her mother at
the divorce trial was devastating.)
It's funny how the nature of scandal changes from decade to decade,
though. Look at what we do for scandal now: There's that thing about
Angelina Jolie and her brother, and there might not even be anything to
it. Pretty blah.
Phoebe9294
>scandal was still alive? And he outlived his ex-wife by almost 18 years and
>Rosselini by what 20 or more?
>
>
23. Rossellini died in 1977.
MadCow57
>>!
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Not a big deal, provided you have an MD. Same skills - working on tiny things.
Terrymelin
>Pia Lindstrom was the theater critic for Channel 4 in NYC for many
>years. She had to review one of her mother's stage performances once,
>and there was no sense, no whiff of any resentment by her toward
>Bergman.
I remember the moving occasion when just a few weeks after her death Ingrid
Bergman's performance as Golda Meir in "A Woman Called Golda" was awarded an
Emmy for Best Actress. Pia Lindstrom accepted the award and the audience rose
spontaneously in her memory. Lindstrom gave a moving and heartfelt speech. A
great TV moment.
Terry Ellsworth
Matthew Kruk
Better, sharper instruments. ;-)
mack
"Matthew Kruk" <mk...@netcom.ca> wrote in message
news:39367720...@netcom.ca...
And the fees are MUCH bigger! Oh, and it's Peter, not Petter.
merli...@gmail.com
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On Wednesday, May 31, 2000 at 9:00:00 AM UTC+2, Brad Ferguson wrote:
« It's funny how the nature of scandal changes from decade to decade, though. Look at what we do for scandal now: There's that thing about Angelina Jolie and her brother, and there might not even be anything to it. Pretty blah. »
What changed is NOT "the nature" of scandal, which actually remains unchanged forever, but its image built and constantly altered by the medias. Ingrid Bergman and her husband, as most people in these circles, were living a dangerous life since constantly living far from each other, e.g. one in L.A., the other in Italy. When Rosselini courted Ingrid, she fell: this is the fault. The laws, the media buzz, the publicly imposed opinions, may change, but some things don't, even if it gets actually forbidden to say or write or recall them; one is that a man loves a woman, very dearly, she belongs to him, so she must NOT give herself to another one (which she is armed to resist because the woman's instinct does NOT pull her, as men, toward affairs); if she does, this is felt, by everyone, even stronger by women than by men, as a very grave offense, no matter the woman's status (ordinary wife, actress, queen, loved or hated by the public opinion, or whatever). Then when she (Ingrid) got pregnant it got even worse and she had no solution but to divorce. If such thing happened today, the *regular* people would have the same reaction.
The kiss between Angelina Jolie and her brother is so instant, temporary, different, that it is actually unrelated.
I am pretty sure that if a big actress, happily married with a loving husband and a lovely daughter, suddenly had an affair with another man, got pregnant and abandoned husband and daughter, she would get the same blame *from regular citizens* in 2015 than in 1950 or 1800 or in the Bible era. The only change would be how the story is recounted and presented by the official medias.
Versailles, Mon 31 Aug 2015 14:14:15 +0200
