1908-03-07 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 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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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita | Self (archive footage) | 2021-05-16 |
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The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo | Self - Actress (archive footage) | 2021-10-23 |
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Noi siamo cinema | Self (archive footage) | 2021-12-16 |
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La Passione di Anna Magnani | Self (archive footage) | 2019-05-20 |
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Quand Jean devint Renoir | Camilla (archive footage) | 2017-04-30 |
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Luchino Visconti, entre vérité et passion | Self (archive footage) | 2016-11-15 |
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Girlfriend in a Coma | Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2012-11-26 |
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La guerra dei vulcani | Self (archive footage) | 2012-09-02 |
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Vittorio D. | Self (archive footage) | 2009-09-17 |
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Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità | (archive footage) | 2008-03-07 |
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My Dad Is 100 Years Old | Pina (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2006-12-06 |
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Il était une fois... « Rome, ville ouverte » | Self (archive footage) | 2006-05-27 |
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Bellissime | (archive footage) | 2004-01-08 |
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Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album | Gioia (archive footage) | 2003-10-14 |
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Rossellini sotto il vulcano | Maddalena Natoli (archive footage) | 1998-01-01 |
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Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain | Self - actress | 1996-06-18 |
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage | Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage) | 1994-12-19 |
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Rossellini visto da Rossellini | Self (archive footage) | 1993-05-01 |
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Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano | Self | 1985-01-01 |
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Io sono Anna Magnani | Self (archive footage) | 1980-09-30 |
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...Correva l'anno di grazia 1870 | Teresa Parenti | 1972-01-07 |
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Roma | Anna Magnani | 1972-03-16 |
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Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro | Jolanda | 1971-10-03 |
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Tre donne - L'automobile | Anna | 1971-10-10 |
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Tre donne - La sciantosa | Flora Torres | 1971-09-26 |
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria | Rosa | 1970-01-02 |
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Cinéma et Réalité | Self | 1967-01-01 |
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Made in Italy | Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3") | 1965-12-22 |
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Le magot de Josefa | Josefa | 1963-08-22 |
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Mamma Roma | Mamma Roma | 1962-09-22 |
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Risate di gioia | Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti | 1960-10-21 |
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The Fugitive Kind | Lady Torrance | 1960-04-14 |
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Nella città l'inferno | Egle | 1959-01-29 |
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Wild Is the Wind | Gioa | 1957-12-11 |
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Suor Letizia | suor Letizia | 1956-10-17 |
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The Rose Tattoo | Serafina Delle Rose | 1955-12-12 |
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Carosello del varietà | 1955-02-08 | |
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Anna Magnani | 1953-10-31 | |
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Siamo donne | Anna (segment "Anna Magnani") | 1953-10-27 |
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Bellissima | Maddalena Cecconi | 1952-01-04 |
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Camicie rosse | Anita Garibaldi | 1952-08-15 |
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Le Carrosse d'or | Camilla | 1952-12-05 |
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The Ways of Love | Nannina | 1950-12-13 |
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Vulcano | Maddalena Natoli | 1950-02-02 |
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Lo sconosciuto di San Marino | Liana, la prostituta | 1948-01-16 |
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Assunta Spina | Assunta Spina | 1948-03-10 |
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L'amore | The woman (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo") | 1948-11-02 |
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Molti sogni per le strade | Linda Bertoni | 1948-10-17 |
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L'onorevole Angelina | Angelina Bianchi | 1947-11-12 |
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Un uomo ritorna | Adele Vicarelli | 1946-04-21 |
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Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma | Ada | 1946-10-02 |
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Abbasso la ricchezza! | Gioconda Perfetti | 1946-12-21 |
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Il bandito | Lidia | 1946-10-05 |
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Abbasso la miseria! | Nannina Straselli | 1945-12-27 |
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Roma città aperta | Pina | 1945-10-08 |
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Quartetto pazzo | Elena | 1945-08-22 |
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Il fiore sotto gli occhi | Maria Comasco, l'attrice | 1944-11-28 |
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Campo de' fiori | Elide | 1943-06-24 |
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L'avventura di Annabella | La mondana | 1943-03-31 |
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La vita è bella | Virginia | 1943-05-26 |
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L'ultima carrozzella | Mary Dunchetti | 1943-12-01 |
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Finalmente soli | Ninetta | 1942-03-17 |
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La fortuna viene dal cielo | Zizì | 1942-03-26 |
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Teresa Venerdì | Loletta Prima | 1941-11-24 |
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La fuggitiva | Wanda Reni | 1941-11-02 |
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Una lampada alla finestra | Ivana | 1940-02-10 |
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La principessa Tarakanova | Marietta, la cameriera | 1938-03-23 |
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30 secondi d'amore | Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio | 1936-10-24 |
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Cavalleria | Fanny | 1936-10-23 |
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Quei due | Pierotta | 1935-01-01 |
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La Cieca Di Sorrento | Anna, la sua amante | 1934-04-30 |
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Tempo massimo | Emilia - la cameriera | 1934-12-31 |
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Das Mädchen der Strasse | 1928-02-02 |
