Editing Edwin C. Johnson (section)

===Ingrid Bergman incident===
He was perhaps best known for presenting a speech on March 14, 1950, 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. Johnson then proposed a bill where movies would be licensed based on the perceived morality of the actors/actresses and stated that Bergman “had perpetrated an assault upon the institution of marriage,” and called her “a powerful influence for evil.”

Prior to the discovery of her affair, Ingrid Bergman had been Johnson’s favorite actress. He felt that he had been deceived by the incident, and wished to ban her from any future Hollywood productions.<ref name= DB>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/21/when-congress-slut-shamed-ingrid-bergman|title=When Congress Slut-Shamed Ingrid Bergman|first=Marlow|last=Stern|newspaper=The Daily Beast|date=November 21, 2015|via=www.thedailybeast.com}}</ref>

Bergman returned to [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] in the 1956 blockbuster film ''[[Anastasia (1956 movie)|Anastasia]]''. In 1972, [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Charles H. Percy]] of [[Illinois]] entered an apology into the ''[[Congressional Record]]'' for Johnson’s attack, which had been made on Bergman twenty-two years earlier.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/29/archives/ingrid-bergman-gets-apology-for-senate-attack.html|title=Ingrid Bergman Gets Apology for Senate Attack (Published 1972)|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 29, 1972|access-date=October 6, 2020|archive-date=March 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180315211212/https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/29/archives/ingrid-bergman-gets-apology-for-senate-attack.html|url-status=live}}</ref>