Journey to Italy
Alfred Hitchcock directed her in three films: "Spellbound" (1945), "Notorious" (1946), and "Under Capricorn" (1949). Impressed by Italian director Roberto Rossellini's films "Rome, Open City" (1945) and "Paisà" (1946), she wrote to him offering her services as an actress. Together, they would make "Stromboli" (1950), "Europa 51" (1951), "Siamo donne" (1953), "Journey to Italy" (1954), and "Joan of Arc at the Stake" (1954). Her off-screen relationship with Rossellini ended her marriage to Lindström, and produced out-of-wedlock son Renato Roberto Ranaldo Giusto Giuseppe ("Robin") Rossellini. She and Lindström divorced in 1950, and she married Rossellini. After the 1952 births of their twin daughters Isotta Ingrid and Isabella, she and Rossellini divorced. Hitchcock had remained her lifelong friend, and told her, "He ruined your career".