Anna Magnani
Acting
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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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Filmography of
Anna Magnani
Herself (archive footage)
... 2019
... 2017
Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
... 2012
Herself (Archive footage)
... 2012
Herself
... 2009
Archival footage
... 2004
Archival Footage
... 2003
Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
... 1994
... 1985
Herself (archive footage)
... 1980
Anna Magnani
... 1972
Teresa Parenti
... 1972
Anna
... 1971
Jolanda
... 1971
Flora Torres
... 1971
... 1969
Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
... 1965
Josefa
... 1963
Roma
... 1962
Gioia Fabbricotti
... 1960
Lady Torrance
... 1960
Egle
... 1959
Gioa
... 1957
... 1956
Serafina Delle Rose
... 1955
Herself (segment "Anna Magnani")
... 1953
Camilla
... 1952
... 1952
Maddalena Cecconi
... 1951
Linda Bertoni
... 1951
Maddalena Natoli
... 1950
The woman (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
... 1948
Assunta Spina
... 1948
... 1948
Angelina Bianchi
... 1947
Gioconda Perfetti
... 1946
Lidia
... 1946
... 1946
Adele Vicarelli
... 1946
Pina
... 1945
Elena
... 1945
... 1945
Mary Dunchetti
... 1943
Elide
... 1943
Virginia
... 1943
... 1942
Wanda Reni
... 1941
Maddalena/Loretta
... 1941
Fanny
... 1936
Pierotta
... 1935
Emilia - la cameriera
... 1934
Anna, la sua amante
... 1934