Anna Magnani
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".
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Known for
What's My Line?
Self
The Oscars
Self
Before Him All Rome Trembled
Ada
Mamma Roma
Mamma Roma
Teresa Venerdì
Loletta Prima
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Self (archive footage)
Rome, Open City
Pina
Wild Is the Wind
Gioa
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Self (archive footage)
The Passionate Thief
Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Il fiore sotto gli occhi
Maria Comasco, l'attrice
1870
Teresa Parenti
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Self
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
Jolanda
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Rosa
Luck Comes from Heaven
Zizì
The Automobile
Anna
La fuggitiva
Wanda Reni
L'avventura di Annabella
La mondana
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Self (archive footage)
Unknown Men of San Marino
Liana, la prostituta
Una lampada alla finestra
Ivana
The War of the Volcanoes
Self (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Self (archive footage)
We, the Women
Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
Tre donne - La sciantosa
Flora Torres
Woman Trouble
Linda Bertoni
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
The Ways of Love
Nannina
30 Seconds of Love
Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio
L'amore
Woman on the Phone (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
The Bandit
Lidia
Roma
Anna Magnani
Princess Tarakanova
Marietta, la cameriera
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
Anna, la sua amante
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
(archive footage)
The Rose Tattoo
Serafina Delle Rose
Hell in the City
Egle
Down with Misery!
Nannina Straselli
The Last Wagon
Mary Dunchetti
The Fugitive Kind
Lady Torrance
Josefa's Loot
Josefa
Un film et son époque
Self (archive footage)
Quei due
Pierotta
The Passion of Anna Magnani
Self (archive footage)
Assunta Spina
Assunta Spina
Peddlin' in Society
Gioconda Perfetti
Made in Italy
Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
Revenge
Adele Vicarelli
Quartetto pazzo
Elena
The Golden Coach
Camilla
Full Speed
Emilia - la cameriera
Bellissima
Maddalena Cecconi
Cavalleria
Fanny
Angelina
Angelina Bianchi
Volcano
Maddalena Natoli
Girlfriend in a Coma
Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Peddler and the Lady
Elide
Cinéma et Réalité
Self
Bellissime
(archive footage)
Das Mädchen der Strasse
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Camilla (archive footage)
Vittorio D.
Self (archive footage)
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Anita Garibaldi
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
Gioia (archive footage)
La vita è bella
Virginia
The Awakening
suor Letizia
Finalmente soli
Ninetta
Variety carousel
Anna Magnani
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
Self - actress
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
Self (archive footage)
Rossellini Under the Volcano
Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
Rossellini and the City
(archive footage)
Cinépanorama
Self