'Notorious'

Ingrid Bergman. Hello nurse!

I didn't know that Bergman left her daughter and husband in New York City to do a film (and to do) with director Roberto Rossellini. The fat, balding Rossellini. Directors get all the good-looking chicks. She'd eventually have Rossellini's kid while married to the first guy.

Meanwhile, the daughter and husband are at home wondering where mommy went. They'd get a divorce, she goes to Italy and has more of Rossellini's children, including Isabella Rossellini, who is hot, but who I didn't know was Bergman's daughter.

I didn't know any of this. Got a little bit less respect for Bergman today than I did yesterday.

Notorious is good thanks to Alfred Hitchcock and Cary Grant. Set in Brazil, Bergman must infiltrate a group of Nazis who got their hands on some plutonium. Grant is her contact in the CIA.

As she gets deeper, her love for Grant (and vice versa) get in the way of the investigation and pinch. It was written based on a short story in the Saturday Evening Post by Hitchcock, who owed David Selznick a film. Selznick sold it -- the director, actors, script -- for $800,000 in addition to 50 percent of the box office take. Must be nice. Selznick probably wonders why Bergman didn't leave her husband for him.