Which Oscar winning actress was denounced by Senator Edwin C. Johnson as a powerful influence for evil after she had an affair with and left her husband for Roberto Rossellini?
Edwin C. Johnson 1, 1937 and from January 12, 1955 until January 8, 1957. He was perhaps best known for making a speech on the Senate floor criticizing the extramarital affair of actress Ingrid Bergman, who at the time was married to Petter Lindström. Bergman's affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini became a cause célèbre as a result of Johnson's speech, forcing her to relocate to Europe for several years until her return to Hollywood in the 1956 blockbuster film "Anastasia". In 1972, Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois entered an apology into the "Congressional Record" for the attack made on Bergman twenty-two
Stromboli (film) women's clubs and legislators in more than a dozen states around the country called for the film to be banned, and Bergman was denounced as "a powerful influence for evil" on the floor of the US Senate by Colorado Senator Edwin C. Johnson. Furthermore, Bergman's Hollywood career was halted for a number of years, until her Oscar-winning performance in "Anastasia." In Italy, "Stromboli" was awarded the Rome Prize for Cinema as the best film of the year. Initial reception for "Stromboli" in America, however, was very negative. Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" opened his review by writing: "After