Anna Magnani
Acting • Born 1908-03-07 – Died 1973-09-26
Biography
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
80 credits
Rome, Open City
Movie • 1945
Pina
Rossellini Under the Volcano
Movie • 1998
Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
Movie • 1993
Self (archive footage)
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Movie • 1970
Rosa
Cinéma et Réalité
Movie • 1967
Self
Teresa Venerdì
Movie • 1941
Loletta Prima
Bellissima
Movie • 1952
Maddalena Cecconi
L'amore
Movie • 1948
Woman on the Phone (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
The Fugitive Kind
Movie • 1960
Lady Torrance
Made in Italy
Movie • 1965
Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
The Rose Tattoo
Movie • 1955
Serafina Delle Rose
Mamma Roma
Movie • 1962
Mamma Roma
We, the Women
Movie • 1953
Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
The Passionate Thief
Movie • 1960
Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
Peddlin' in Society
Movie • 1946
Gioconda Perfetti
The Golden Coach
Movie • 1952
Camilla
Wild Is the Wind
Movie • 1957
Gioa
Angelina
Movie • 1947
Angelina Bianchi
Volcano
Movie • 1950
Maddalena Natoli
The Peddler and the Lady
Movie • 1943
Elide
Assunta Spina
Movie • 1948
Assunta Spina
Girlfriend in a Coma
Movie • 2012
Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Full Speed
Movie • 1934
Emilia - la cameriera
Josefa's Loot
Movie • 1963
Josefa
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
Movie • 1934
Anna, la sua amante
Tre donne - La sciantosa
Movie • 1971
Flora Torres
The Last Wagon
Movie • 1943
Mary Dunchetti
Woman Trouble
Movie • 1948
Linda Bertoni
The Awakening
Movie • 1956
suor Letizia
Hell in the City
Movie • 1959
Egle
Cavalleria
Movie • 1936
Fanny
Il fiore sotto gli occhi
Movie • 1944
Maria Comasco, l'attrice
Down with Misery!
Movie • 1945
Nannina Straselli
L'avventura di Annabella
Movie • 1943
La mondana
The Automobile
Movie • 1971
Anna
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
Movie • 1971
Jolanda
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità
Movie • 2008
(archive footage)
Princess Tarakanova
Movie • 1938
Marietta, la cameriera
Una lampada alla finestra
Movie • 1940
Ivana
1870
Movie • 1972
Teresa Parenti
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
Movie • 2021
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Das Mädchen der Strasse
Movie • 1928
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Movie • 1952
Anita Garibaldi
La fuggitiva
Movie • 1941
Wanda Reni
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Movie • 2016
Self (archive footage)
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
We Are Cinema
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Quei due
Movie • 1935
Pierotta
Luck Comes from Heaven
Movie • 1942
Zizì
Unknown Men of San Marino
Movie • 1948
Liana, la prostituta
Quartetto pazzo
Movie • 1945
Elena
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Movie • 1980
Self (archive footage)
La vita è bella
Movie • 1943
Virginia
Variety carousel
Movie • 1955
Vittorio D.
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Roma
Movie • 1972
Anna Magnani
Bellissime
Movie • 2004
(archive footage)
Before Him All Rome Trembled
Movie • 1946
Ada
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Movie • 1985
Self
Revenge
Movie • 1946
Adele Vicarelli
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Movie • 1994
Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
Movie • 2003
Gioia (archive footage)
The War of the Volcanoes
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
The Passion of Anna Magnani
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
The Bandit
Movie • 1946
Lidia
Quand Jean devint Renoir
Movie • 2017
Camilla (archive footage)
My Dad Is 100 Years Old
Movie • 2006
Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
30 Seconds of Love
Movie • 1936
Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio
The Ways of Love
Movie • 1950
Nannina
Finalmente soli
Movie • 1942
Ninetta
Anna Magnani
Movie • 1953
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
Movie • 1996
Self - actress
Rossellini and the City
Movie • 2009
(archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere
Movie • 2009
Anna Magnani: Femmina Immortale
Movie • 2008
Self
Un film et son époque
TV • 2003
Self (archive footage)
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self