Anna Magnani
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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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Anna Magnani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known for
Credits
Rome, Open City (1945)
as Pina
Mamma Roma (1962)
as Mamma Roma
Roma (1972)
as Anna Magnani
Princess Tarakanova (1938)
as Marietta, la cameriera
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1970)
as Rosa
The Fugitive Kind (1960)
as Lady Torrance
The Passionate Thief (1960)
as Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
as Serafina Delle Rose
Anna Magnani (1953)
Actor
The Bandit (1946)
as Lidia
Bellissima (1952)
as Maddalena Cecconi
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage (1994)
as Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
Wild Is the Wind (1957)
as Gioa
Quand Jean devint Renoir (2017)
as Camilla (archive footage)
The Golden Coach (1952)
as Camilla
We Are Cinema (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere (2009)
Actor
Angelina (1947)
as Angelina Bianchi
We, the Women (1953)
as Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
Made in Italy (1965)
as Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
Vittorio D. (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
Quei due (1935)
as Pierotta
Hell in the City (1959)
as Egle
L'Amore (1948)
as Woman on the Phone (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
Teresa Venerdì (1941)
as Loletta Prima
Cinéma et Réalité (1967)
as Self
The Passion of Anna Magnani (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
The Awakening (1956)
as suor Letizia
30 Seconds of Love (1936)
as Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio
The Last Wagon (1943)
as Mary Dunchetti
Assunta Spina (1948)
as Assunta Spina
My Name Is Anna Magnani (1980)
as Self (archive footage)
The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1934)
as Anna, la sua amante
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità (2008)
as (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion (2016)
as Self (archive footage)
Before Him All Rome Trembled (1946)
as Ada
Revenge (1946)
as Adele Vicarelli
The Peddler and the Lady (1943)
as Elide
The War of the Volcanoes (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Anna Magnani: Femmina Immortale (2008)
as Self
The Ways of Love (1950)
as Nannina
Das Mädchen der Strasse (1928)
Actor
Bellissime (2004)
as (archive footage)
Girlfriend in a Coma (2012)
as Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Variety carousel (1955)
Actor
Woman Trouble (1948)
as Linda Bertoni
Peddlin' in Society (1946)
as Gioconda Perfetti
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain (1996)
as Self - actress
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema (1985)
as Self
1870 (1972)
as Teresa Parenti
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo (2021)
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Volcano (1950)
as Maddalena Natoli
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album (2003)
as Gioia (archive footage)
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes (1993)
as Self (archive footage)
The Automobile (1971)
as Anna
Tre donne - La sciantosa (1971)
as Flora Torres
My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2006)
as Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Full Speed (1934)
as Emilia - la cameriera
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City' (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi (1952)
as Anita Garibaldi
Josefa's Loot (1963)
as Josefa
Rossellini Under the Volcano (1998)
as Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
Una lampada alla finestra (1940)
as Ivana
L'avventura di Annabella (1943)
as La mondana
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro (1971)
as Jolanda
La vita è bella (1943)
as Virginia
Down with Misery! (1945)
as Nannina Straselli
Unknown Men of San Marino (1948)
as Liana, la prostituta
Cavalleria (1936)
as Fanny
La fuggitiva (1941)
as Wanda Reni
Il fiore sotto gli occhi (1944)
as Maria Comasco, l'attrice
Crazy Quartet (1945)
as Elena
Luck Comes from Heaven (1942)
as Zizì
Rossellini and the City (2009)
as (archive footage)
Finalmente soli (1942)
as Ninetta