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Anna Magnani
Rome, Italy
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 in…
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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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2021
We Are Cinema
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
Movie Self - Actress (archive footage)
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2021
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
The Passion of Anna Magnani
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2017
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Movie Camilla (archive footage)
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2016
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2012
Girlfriend in a Coma
Movie Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2012
The War of the Volcanoes
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
Vittorio D.
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
Hollywood sul Tevere
Movie
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2009
Rossellini and the City
Movie (archive footage)
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2008
Anna Magnani: Femmina Immortale
Movie Self
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2008
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
Movie (archive footage)
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2006
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
Movie Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2006
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2004
Bellissime
Movie (archive footage)
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2003
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
Movie Gioia (archive footage)
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2003
Un film et son époque
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1998
Rossellini Under the Volcano
Movie Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
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1996
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
Movie Self - actress
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1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Movie Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
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1993
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1985
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Movie Self
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1980
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1972
Roma
Movie Anna Magnani
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1972
1870
Movie Teresa Parenti
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1971
The Automobile
Movie Anna
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1971
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
Movie Jolanda
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1971
Tre donne - La sciantosa
Movie Flora Torres
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1970
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Movie Rosa
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1967
Cinéma et Réalité
Movie Self
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1965
Made in Italy
Movie Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
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1963
Josefa's Loot
Movie Josefa
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1962
Mamma Roma
Movie Mamma Roma
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1960
The Passionate Thief
Movie Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
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1960
The Fugitive Kind
Movie Lady Torrance
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1959
Hell in the City
Movie Egle
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1957
Wild Is the Wind
Movie Gioa
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1956
The Awakening
Movie suor Letizia
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1956
Cinépanorama
TV show Self
