From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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
Movie | We Are Cinema | Self (archive footage) | 2021-12-16 |
Movie | Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita | Self (archive footage) | 2021-05-16 |
Movie | The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo | Self - Actress (archive footage) | 2021-10-23 |
Movie | Quand Jean devint Renoir | Camilla (archive footage) | 2017-04-30 |
Movie | Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion | Self (archive footage) | 2016-11-15 |
Movie | Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words | Pina (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2015-08-27 |
Movie | Girlfriend in a Coma | Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2012-11-26 |
Movie | Vittorio D. | Self (archive footage) | 2009-09-17 |
Movie | My Dad Is 100 Years Old | Pina (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2006-12-06 |
Movie | Bellissime | (archive footage) | 2004-01-08 |
Movie | My Name Is Anna Magnani | Self (archive footage) | 1980-09-30 |
Movie | Roma | Anna Magnani | 1972-03-16 |
Movie | 1870 | Teresa Parenti | 1972-01-07 |
Movie | Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro | Jolanda | 1971-10-03 |
Movie | Tre donne - La sciantosa | Flora Torres | 1971-09-26 |
Movie | The Automobile | Anna | 1971-10-10 |
Movie | The Secret of Santa Vittoria | Rosa | 1970-01-02 |
Movie | Cinéma et Réalité | Self | 1967-01-01 |
Movie | Made in Italy | Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3") | 1965-12-22 |
Movie | Josefa's Loot | Josefa | 1963-08-22 |
Movie | Mamma Roma | Mamma Roma | 1962-09-22 |
Movie | The Fugitive Kind | Lady Torrance | 1960-04-14 |
Movie | The Passionate Thief | Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti | 1960-10-12 |
Movie | Hell in the City | Egle | 1959-01-29 |
Movie | Wild Is the Wind | Gioa | 1957-12-11 |
Movie | The Awakening | suor Letizia | 1956-10-17 |
Movie | Variety carousel | 1955-02-08 | |
Movie | The Rose Tattoo | Serafina Delle Rose | 1955-12-12 |
Movie | We, the Women | Anna (segment "Anna Magnani") | 1953-10-27 |
Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |
Movie | Bellissima | Maddalena Cecconi | 1952-01-04 |
Movie | The Golden Coach | Camilla | 1952-12-05 |
Movie | Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi | Anita Garibaldi | 1952-08-15 |
Movie | Volcano | Maddalena Natoli | 1950-02-02 |
Movie | The Ways of Love | Nannina | 1950-12-13 |
Movie | Assunta Spina | Assunta Spina | 1948-03-10 |
Movie | Unkown Men of San Marino | Liana, la prostituta | 1948-01-16 |
Movie | Woman Trouble | Linda Bertoni | 1948-10-17 |
Movie | Love | The woman (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo") | 1948-11-02 |
Movie | Angelina | Angelina Bianchi | 1947-11-12 |
Movie | Before Him All Rome Trembled | Ada | 1946-10-02 |
Movie | The Bandit | Lidia | 1946-10-05 |
Movie | Peddlin' in Society | Gioconda Perfetti | 1946-12-21 |
Movie | Quartetto pazzo | Elena | 1945-08-22 |
Movie | Down with Misery! | Nannina Straselli | 1945-12-27 |
Movie | Rome, Open City | Pina | 1945-10-08 |
Movie | Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi | Maria Comasco, l'attrice | 1944-11-28 |
Movie | L'avventura di Annabella | La mondana | 1943-03-31 |
Movie | The Last Wagon | Mary Dunchetti | 1943-12-01 |
Movie | La vita è bella | Virginia | 1943-05-26 |
Movie | The Peddler and the Lady | Elide | 1943-06-24 |
Movie | Luck Comes from Heaven | Zizì | 1942-03-26 |
Movie | La fuggitiva | Wanda Reni | 1941-11-02 |
Movie | Teresa Venerdì | Loletta Prima | 1941-11-24 |
Movie | Princess Tarakanova | Marietta, la cameriera | 1938-03-23 |
Movie | Cavalleria | Fanny | 1936-10-23 |
Movie | 30 Seconds of Love | Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio | 1936-10-24 |
Movie | Quei due | Pierotta | 1935-01-01 |
Movie | The Blind Woman of Sorrento | Anna, la sua amante | 1934-04-30 |
Movie | Full Speed | Emilia - la cameriera | 1934-12-31 |
Movie | Das Mädchen der Strasse | 1928-02-02 |