Acting
Anna Magnani
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
Filmography
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
Film · 2021
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Film · 2021
We Are Cinema
Film · 2021
The Passion of Anna Magnani
Film · 2019
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Film · 2017
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Film · 2016
Girlfriend in a Coma
Film · 2012
The War of the Volcanoes
Film · 2012
Vittorio D.
Film · 2009
Rossellini and the City
Film · 2009
Hollywood sul Tevere
Film · 2009
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
Film · 2008
Anna Magnani: Femmina Immortale
Film · 2008
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Film · 2006
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
Film · 2006
Bellissime
Film · 2004
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
Film · 2003
Un film et son époque
Series · 2003
Rossellini Under the Volcano
Film · 1998
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
Film · 1996
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Film · 1994
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
Film · 1993
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Film · 1985
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Film · 1980
1870
Film · 1972
Roma
Film · 1972
Tre donne - La sciantosa
Film · 1971
The Automobile
Film · 1971
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
Film · 1971
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Film · 1970
Cinéma et Réalité
Film · 1967
Made in Italy
Film · 1965
Josefa's Loot
Film · 1963
Mamma Roma
Film · 1962
The Fugitive Kind
Film · 1960
The Passionate Thief
Film · 1960
Hell in the City
Film · 1959
Wild Is the Wind
Film · 1957
The Awakening
Film · 1956
Cinépanorama
Series · 1956
The Rose Tattoo
Film · 1955
Variety carousel
Film · 1955
We, the Women
Film · 1953
Anna Magnani
Film · 1953
The Oscars
Series · 1953
Bellissima
Film · 1952
The Golden Coach
Film · 1952
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Film · 1952
Vulcano
Film · 1950
The Ways of Love
Film · 1950
What's My Line?
Series · 1950
L'Amore
Film · 1948
Assunta Spina
Film · 1948
Woman Trouble
Film · 1948
Unknown Men of San Marino
Film · 1948
Angelina
Film · 1947
Peddlin' in Society
Film · 1946
Before Him All Rome Trembled
Film · 1946
Revenge
Film · 1946
The Bandit
Film · 1946
Rome, Open City
Film · 1945
Down with Misery!
Film · 1945
Crazy Quartet
Film · 1945
Il fiore sotto gli occhi
Film · 1944
The Peddler and the Lady
Film · 1943
The Last Wagon
Film · 1943
L'avventura di Annabella
Film · 1943
La vita è bella
Film · 1943
Luck Comes from Heaven
Film · 1942
Finalmente soli
Film · 1942
Teresa Venerdì
Film · 1941
La fuggitiva
Film · 1941
Una lampada alla finestra
Film · 1940
Princess Tarakanova
Film · 1938
Cavalleria
Film · 1936
30 Seconds of Love
Film · 1936
Quei due
Film · 1935
Full Speed
Film · 1934
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
Film · 1934
Das Mädchen der Strasse
Film · 1928