Anna Magnani
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- ComedyThe Rose Tattoo
- DramaMamma Roma
- ComedyThe Golden Coach
- DramaL'amore
- DramaRome, Open City
- DramaThe Fugitive Kind
- ComedyThe Secret of Santa Vittoria
- DocumentaryGirlfriend in a Coma
- DocumentaryVittorio D.
- DocumentaryIngrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
- CrimeThe Bandit
- CrimeThe Bandit
- ComedyThe Passionate Thief
- DramaVolcano
- ComedyAngelina
- DramaThe Blind Woman of Sorrento
- DramaAssunta Spina
- DramaWild Is the Wind
- DramaHell in the City
- DramaUnkown Men of San Marino
- DocumentaryThe Passion of Anna Magnani
- DramaDown with Misery!
- ComedyThe Last Wagon
- TV MovieThe Automobile
- DramaThe Awakening
- DramaTre donne - La sciantosa
- DocumentaryMy Name Is Anna Magnani
- ComedyPeddlin' in Society
- ComedyLe Magot de Josefa
- DocumentaryAnna Magnani - Recitare la verità
- Drama1870
- ComedyWoman Trouble
- DramaRed Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
- DramaRed Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
- TV MovieTre donne - 1943: Un incontro
- RomanceLuck Comes from Heaven
- ComedyThe Peddler and the Lady
- ComedyWe, the Women
- DocumentaryThe Italian Jobs - Paramount Pictures e l'Italia
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- DramaBefore Him All Rome Trembled
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- ComedyQuartetto pazzo
- ComedyFinalmente soli
- ComedyTeresa Venerdì
- DramaLa fuggitiva
- DocumentaryThe War of the Volcanoes
- DocumentaryMy Dad Is 100 Years Old
- DocumentaryRossellini Through His Own Eyes
- MusicBarbra Streisand: The Movie Album
- DramaThe Ways of Love
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- DramaPrincess Tarakanova
- DocumentaryRossellini Under the Volcano
- ComedyFull Speed
- Romance30 Seconds of Love
- DramaUna lampada alla finestra
- DocumentaryBellissime
- ComedyIl fiore sotto gli occhi
- ComedyL'avventura di Annabella
- ComedyRoma
- RomanceCavalleria
- DocumentaryLuchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
- DocumentaryOnce Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
- DocumentaryBellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
- DocumentaryQuand Jean devint Renoir
- DocumentaryCinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
- DocumentaryTennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
- DocumentaryCinéma et Réalité
- DocumentaryThe Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
- ComedyMade in Italy
- DocumentaryNoi siamo cinema
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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".
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- Place of Birth
- Rome, Italy
- Known Credits
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- Website
- https://www.archivioannamagnani.it/