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 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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  • wc Gender: Female
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1908-03-07
  • event Death Date 1973-09-26
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 6.6
  • info Birth Place Rome, Italy
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Rome, Open City

1945-10-08

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Rossellini Under the Volcano

1998-01-01

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Rossellini Through His Own Eyes

1993-05-01

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The Secret of Santa Vittoria

1970-01-02

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Cinéma et Réalité

1967-01-01

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Teresa Venerdì

1941-11-24

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Bellissima

1952-01-04

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Love

1948-11-02

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The Fugitive Kind

1960-04-14

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Made in Italy

1965-12-22

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The Rose Tattoo

1955-12-12

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Mamma Roma

1962-09-22

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We, the Women

1953-10-27

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The Passionate Thief

1960-10-12

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Peddlin' in Society

1946-12-21

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The Golden Coach

1952-12-05

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Wild Is the Wind

1957-12-11

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Angelina

1947-11-12

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Volcano

1950-02-02

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The Peddler and the Lady

1943-06-24

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Assunta Spina

1948-03-10

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Girlfriend in a Coma

2012-11-26

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Full Speed

1934-12-31

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Josefa's Loot

1963-08-22

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The Blind Woman of Sorrento

1934-04-30

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Tre donne - La sciantosa

1971-09-26

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The Last Wagon

1943-12-01

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Woman Trouble

1948-10-17

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The Awakening

1956-10-17

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Hell in the City

1959-01-29

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Cavalleria

1936-10-23

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Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi

1944-11-28

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Down with Misery!

1945-12-27

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L'avventura di Annabella

1943-03-31

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The Automobile

1971-10-10

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Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro

1971-10-03

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Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'

2006-05-27

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Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità

2008-03-07

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Princess Tarakanova

1938-03-23

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Una lampada alla finestra

1940-02-10

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1870

1972-01-07

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The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo

2021-10-23

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Das Mädchen der Strasse

1928-02-02

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Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi

1952-08-15

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La fuggitiva

1941-11-02

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Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

2016-11-15

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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

2021-05-16

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We Are Cinema

2021-12-16

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My Name Is Anna Magnani

1980-09-30

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Luck Comes from Heaven

1942-03-26

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La vita è bella

1943-05-26

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Quei due

1935-01-01

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Unknown Men of San Marino

1948-01-16

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Quartetto pazzo

1945-08-22

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Variety carousel

1955-02-08

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Vittorio D.

2009-09-17

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Roma

1972-03-16

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Bellissime

2004-01-08

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Before Him All Rome Trembled

1946-10-02

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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

1985-01-01

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Revenge

1946-04-21

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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

1994-12-19

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Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album

2003-10-14

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The War of the Volcanoes

2012-09-02

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The Passion of Anna Magnani

2019-05-20

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The Bandit

1946-10-05

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Quand Jean devint Renoir

2017-04-30

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My Dad Is 100 Years Old

2006-12-06

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30 Seconds of Love

1936-10-24

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The Ways of Love

1950-12-13

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Finalmente soli

1942-03-17

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Anna Magnani

1953-10-31

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Un film et son époque

2003-05-17

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The Oscars

1953-03-19

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Cinépanorama

1956-02-04

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What's My Line?

1950-02-02

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