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
76 movies · 4 shows
We Are Cinema
2021·9.5
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
2021·7.0
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021·7.3
The Passion of Anna Magnani
2019·6.5
Quand Jean devint Renoir
2017·10.0
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
2016·1.0
Girlfriend in a Coma
2012·6.9
The War of the Volcanoes
2012·5.0
Vittorio D.
2009·6.3
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009·0.0
Rossellini and the City
2009·0.0
Anna Magnani: Femmina Immortale
2008·0.0
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
2008·0.0
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
2006·7.1
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006·7.0
Bellissime
2004·0.0
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
2003·7.5
Rossellini Under the Volcano
1998·0.0
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
1996·0.0
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994·9.0
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
1993·10.0
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985·9.0
My Name Is Anna Magnani
1980·8.7
Roma
1972·7.2
1870
1972·6.6
The Automobile
1971·5.6
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
1971·8.5
Tre donne - La sciantosa
1971·7.7
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1970·6.9
Cinéma et Réalité
1967·6.5
Made in Italy
1965·6.1
Josefa's Loot
1963·5.4
Mamma Roma
1962·7.9
The Passionate Thief
1960·6.9
The Fugitive Kind
1960·6.9
Hell in the City
1959·7.4
Wild Is the Wind
1957·6.8
The Awakening
1956·6.9
The Rose Tattoo
1955·6.9
Variety carousel
1955·6.8
Anna Magnani
1953·0.0
We, the Women
1953·6.2
The Golden Coach
1952·7.1
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
1952·7.5
Bellissima
1952·7.7
The Ways of Love
1950·0.0
Volcano
1950·5.9
L'Amore
1948·6.7
Woman Trouble
1948·6.6
Assunta Spina
1948·7.2
Unknown Men of San Marino
1948·6.2
Angelina
1947·6.4
Peddlin' in Society
1946·5.7
The Bandit
1946·6.4
Before Him All Rome Trembled
1946·6.8
Revenge
1946·7.0
Down with Misery!
1945·6.7
Rome, Open City
1945·8.0
Crazy Quartet
1945·10.0
Il fiore sotto gli occhi
1944·8.0
The Last Wagon
1943·6.8
The Peddler and the Lady
1943·7.3
La vita è bella
1943·7.7
L'avventura di Annabella
1943·8.0
Luck Comes from Heaven
1942·3.0
Finalmente soli
1942·7.0
Teresa Venerdì
1941·6.7
La fuggitiva
1941·6.0
Una lampada alla finestra
1940·9.0
Princess Tarakanova
1938·10.0
30 Seconds of Love
1936·10.0
Cavalleria
1936·5.4
Quei due
1935·6.4
Full Speed
1934·5.7
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
1934·6.7
Das Mädchen der Strasse
1928·8.0