The Hollywood Daughter by Kate Alcott

This novel, written by Kate Alcott, takes place in the 1950s and centers around Swedish film star Ingrid Bergman and the world of 1950s Hollywood, the Church and McCarthy-related Communist paranoia

Summary

-Los Angeles, 1950. Ingrid Bergman is a Swedish film star whose star is rising with the success of Casablanca. Her publicist is Gabriel Malloy, whose own seventeen year old daughter is Jessica "Jesse" Malloy. Jessica idolizes Ingrid for her elegance, beauty and as a second mother where her own devoutly religious mother falls short. One day, it's revealed that Ingrid Bergman has conducted an illicit affair with Italian film director Roberto Rosselini and had a child out of wedlock. Suddenly this scandal rocks Hollywood and the legions of fans are shocked. But none more so than Jessica, whose father is more or less demonized for trying to sell Ingrid Bergman in Hollywood. Over the years, Jesse has fleeting encounters with the film star and realizes that, over the years, there were a lot of secrets in her own family that stayed hidden for good reason