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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Anna Magnani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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- 2021 · We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- 2021 · Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · The Passion of Anna Magnani as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Quand Jean devint Renoir as Camilla (archive footage)
- 2016 · Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · Girlfriend in a Coma as Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2012 · The War of the Volcanoes as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 · Vittorio D. as Self (archive footage)
- 2008 · Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità as (archive footage)
- 2006 · My Dad Is 100 Years Old as Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2006 · Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City' as Self (archive footage)
- 2004 · Bellissime as (archive footage)
- 2003 · Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album as Gioia (archive footage)
- 2003 · Un film et son époque as Self (archive footage)
- 1998 · Rossellini Under the Volcano as Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
- 1994 · Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage as Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
- 1993 · Rossellini Through His Own Eyes as Self (archive footage)
- 1985 · Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema as Self
- 1980 · My Name Is Anna Magnani as Self (archive footage)
- 1972 · Roma as Anna Magnani
- 1972 · 1870 as Teresa Parenti
- 1971 · The Automobile as Anna
- 1971 · Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro as Jolanda
- 1971 · Tre donne - La sciantosa as Flora Torres
- 1970 · The Secret of Santa Vittoria as Rosa
- 1967 · Cinéma et Réalité as Self
- 1965 · Made in Italy as Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
- 1963 · Josefa's Loot as Josefa
- 1962 · Mamma Roma as Mamma Roma
- 1960 · The Passionate Thief as Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
- 1960 · The Fugitive Kind as Lady Torrance
- 1959 · Hell in the City as Egle
- 1957 · Wild Is the Wind as Gioa
- 1956 · The Awakening as suor Letizia
- 1956 · Cinépanorama as Self
- 1955 · The Rose Tattoo as Serafina Delle Rose
- 1955 · Variety carousel as
- 1953 · Anna Magnani as
- 1953 · We, the Women as Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1952 · The Golden Coach as Camilla
- 1952 · Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi as Anita Garibaldi
- 1952 · Bellissima as Maddalena Cecconi
- 1950 · The Ways of Love as Nannina
- 1950 · What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- 1950 · Volcano as Maddalena Natoli
- 1948 · Love as The woman (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
- 1948 · Woman Trouble as Linda Bertoni
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self (archive footage)
- 1948 · Assunta Spina as Assunta Spina
- 1948 · Unkown Men of San Marino as Liana, la prostituta
- 1947 · Angelina as Angelina Bianchi
- 1946 · Peddlin' in Society as Gioconda Perfetti
- 1946 · The Bandit as Lidia
- 1946 · Before Him All Rome Trembled as Ada
- 1946 · Revenge as Adele Vicarelli
- 1945 · Down with Misery! as Nannina Straselli
- 1945 · Rome, Open City as Pina
- 1945 · Quartetto pazzo as Elena
- 1944 · Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi as Maria Comasco, l'attrice
- 1943 · The Last Wagon as Mary Dunchetti
- 1943 · The Peddler and the Lady as Elide
- 1943 · La vita è bella as Virginia
- 1943 · L'avventura di Annabella as La mondana
- 1942 · Luck Comes from Heaven as Zizì
- 1942 · Finalmente soli as Ninetta
- 1941 · Teresa Venerdì as Loletta Prima
- 1941 · La fuggitiva as Wanda Reni
- 1940 · Una lampada alla finestra as Ivana
- 1938 · Princess Tarakanova as Marietta, la cameriera
- 1936 · 30 Seconds of Love as Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio
- 1936 · Cavalleria as Fanny
- 1935 · Quei due as Pierotta
- 1934 · Full Speed as Emilia - la cameriera
- 1934 · The Blind Woman of Sorrento as Anna, la sua amante
- 1928 · Das Mädchen der Strasse as