Anna Magnani

DOB: 1908-03-07

DOD: 1973-09-26

Anna Magnani (pronounced: mahn-YANEE; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo. Born in Rome to an Egyptian father and an Italian mother, she worked her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs. During her career, her only child was stricken by polio when he was 18 months old and remained crippled. She was referred to as "La Lupa," the "perennial toast of Rome" and a "living she-wolf symbol" of the cinema. Time magazine described her personality as "fiery", and drama critic Harold Clurman said her acting was "volcanic". In the realm of Italian cinema, she was "passionate, fearless, and exciting," an actress that film historian Barry Monush calls "the volcanic earth mother of all Italian cinema." Director Roberto Rossellini called her "the greatest acting genius since Eleonora Duse. Playwright Tennessee Williams became an admirer of her acting and wrote The Rose Tattoo specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received her first Oscar in 1955. After meeting director Goffredo Alessandrini she received her first screen role in La cieca di Sorrento (The Blind Woman of Sorrento) (1934) and later achieved international fame in Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945), considered the first significant movie to launch the Italian neorealism movement in cinema. As an actress she became recognized for her dynamic and forceful portrayals of "earthy lower-class women" in such films as The Miracle (1948), Bellissima (1951), The Rose Tattoo (1955), The Fugitive Kind (1960), with Marlon Brando and directed by Sidney Lumet, and Mamma Roma (1962). As early as 1950, Life magazine had already stated that Magnani was "one of the most impressive actresses since Garbo". Description above from the Wikipedia article Anna Magnani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

Starred In

1945
Movie

Rome, Open City

1941
Movie

Teresa Venerdì

1952
Movie

Bellissima

1948
Movie

L'amore

1960
Movie

The Fugitive Kind

1965
Movie

Made in Italy

1955
Movie

The Rose Tattoo

1962
Movie

Mamma Roma

1953
Movie

We, the Women

1952
Movie

The Golden Coach

1957
Movie

Wild Is the Wind

1947
Movie

Angelina

1950
Movie

Volcano

1948
Movie

Assunta Spina

1934
Movie

Full Speed

1963
Movie

Josefa's Loot

1943
Movie

The Last Wagon

1948
Movie

Woman Trouble

1956
Movie

The Awakening

1959
Movie

Hell in the City

1936
Movie

Cavalleria

1945
Movie

Down with Misery!

1971
Movie

The Automobile

1972
Movie

1870

1941
Movie

La fuggitiva

2021
Movie

We Are Cinema

1935
Movie

Quei due

1943
Movie

La vita è bella

1945
Movie

Quartetto pazzo

1955
Movie

Variety carousel

2009
Movie

Vittorio D.

1972
Movie

Roma

2004
Movie

Bellissime

1946
Movie

Revenge

1946
Movie

The Bandit

1936
Movie

30 Seconds of Love

1950
Movie

The Ways of Love

1942
Movie

Finalmente soli

1953
Movie

Anna Magnani

1953
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The Oscars

1956
Tv

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