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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…
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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
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Anna Magnani's Filmography
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We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)
The Passion of Anna Magnani
as Self (archive footage)
Quand Jean devint Renoir
as Camilla (archive footage)
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
as Self (archive footage)
Girlfriend in a Coma
as Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
The War of the Volcanoes
as Self (archive footage)
Vittorio D.
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere
Rossellini and the City
as (archive footage)
Anna Magnani: Femmina Immortale
as Self
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
as (archive footage)
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
as Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
as Self (archive footage)
Bellissime
as (archive footage)
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
as Gioia (archive footage)
Rossellini Under the Volcano
as Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
No Poster
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
as Self - actress
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
as Self (archive footage)
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
as Self
My Name Is Anna Magnani
as Self (archive footage)
Roma
as Anna Magnani
1870
as Teresa Parenti
The Automobile
as Anna
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
as Jolanda
Tre donne - La sciantosa
as Flora Torres
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
as Rosa
Cinéma et Réalité
as Self
Made in Italy
as Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
Josefa's Loot
as Josefa
Mamma Roma
as Mamma Roma
The Passionate Thief
as Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
The Fugitive Kind
as Lady Torrance
Hell in the City
as Egle
Wild Is the Wind
as Gioa
The Awakening
as suor Letizia
The Rose Tattoo
as Serafina Delle Rose
Variety carousel
No Poster
Anna Magnani
We, the Women
as Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
The Golden Coach
as Camilla
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
as Anita Garibaldi
Bellissima
as Maddalena Cecconi
The Ways of Love
as Nannina
Vulcano
as Maddalena Natoli
L'Amore
as Woman on the Phone (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
Woman Trouble
as Linda Bertoni
Assunta Spina
as Assunta Spina
Unknown Men of San Marino
as Liana, la prostituta
Angelina
as Angelina Bianchi
Peddlin' in Society
as Gioconda Perfetti
The Bandit
as Lidia
Before Him All Rome Trembled
as Ada
Revenge
as Adele Vicarelli
Down with Misery!
as Nannina Straselli
Rome, Open City
as Pina
Crazy Quartet
as Elena
Il fiore sotto gli occhi
as Maria Comasco, l'attrice
The Last Wagon
as Mary Dunchetti
The Peddler and the Lady
as Elide
No Poster
La vita è bella
as Virginia
L'avventura di Annabella
as La mondana
Luck Comes from Heaven
as Zizì
Finalmente soli
as Ninetta
Teresa Venerdì
as Loletta Prima
La fuggitiva
as Wanda Reni
No Poster
Una lampada alla finestra
as Ivana
Princess Tarakanova
as Marietta, la cameriera
30 Seconds of Love
as Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio
Cavalleria
as Fanny
Quei due
as Pierotta
Full Speed
as Emilia - la cameriera
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
as Anna, la sua amante
No Poster