Anna Magnani
1908-03-07 ( 117 years old ) in 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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We Are Cinema 2021-12-16
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo 2021-10-23
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita 2021-05-16
The Passion of Anna Magnani 2019-05-20
Quand Jean devint Renoir 2017-04-30
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion 2016-11-15
Girlfriend in a Coma 2012-11-26
The War of the Volcanoes 2012-09-02
Vittorio D. 2009-09-17
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità 2008-03-07
My Dad Is 100 Years Old 2006-12-06
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City' 2006-05-27
Bellissime 2004-01-08
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album 2003-10-14
Rossellini Under the Volcano 1998-01-01
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage 1994-12-19
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes 1993-05-01
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema 1985-01-01
My Name Is Anna Magnani 1980-09-30
Roma 1972-03-16
1870 1972-01-07
The Automobile 1971-10-10
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro 1971-10-03
Tre donne - La sciantosa 1971-09-26
The Secret of Santa Vittoria 1970-01-02
Cinéma et Réalité 1967-01-01
Made in Italy 1965-12-22
Josefa's Loot 1963-08-22
Mamma Roma 1962-09-22
The Passionate Thief 1960-10-12
The Fugitive Kind 1960-04-14
Hell in the City 1959-01-29
Wild Is the Wind 1957-12-11
The Awakening 1956-10-17
The Rose Tattoo 1955-12-12
Variety carousel 1955-02-08
Anna Magnani 1953-10-31
We, the Women 1953-10-27
The Golden Coach 1952-12-05
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi 1952-08-15
Bellissima 1952-01-04
The Ways of Love 1950-12-13
Volcano 1950-02-02
L'amore 1948-11-02
Woman Trouble 1948-10-17
Assunta Spina 1948-03-10
Unknown Men of San Marino 1948-01-16
Angelina 1947-11-12
Peddlin' in Society 1946-12-21
The Bandit 1946-10-05
Before Him All Rome Trembled 1946-10-02
Revenge 1946-04-21
Down with Misery! 1945-12-27
Rome, Open City 1945-10-08
Quartetto pazzo 1945-08-22
Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi 1944-11-28
The Last Wagon 1943-12-01
The Peddler and the Lady 1943-06-24
La vita è bella 1943-05-26
L'avventura di Annabella 1943-03-31
Luck Comes from Heaven 1942-03-26
Finalmente soli 1942-03-17
Teresa Venerdì 1941-11-24
La fuggitiva 1941-11-02
Una lampada alla finestra 1940-02-10
Princess Tarakanova 1938-03-23
30 Seconds of Love 1936-10-24
Cavalleria 1936-10-23
Quei due 1935-01-01
Full Speed 1934-12-31
The Blind Woman of Sorrento 1934-04-30
Das Mädchen der Strasse 1928-02-02

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