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
Rome, Open City
as PinaDuring the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the leader of the Resistance is chased by the Nazis...
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Mamma Roma
as Mamma RomaAfter years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has...
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The Fugitive Kind
as Lady TorranceVal Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run...
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria
as RosaDuring World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.
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Roma
as Anna MagnaniA virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its...
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Bellissima
as Maddalena CecconiFilm director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers,...
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The Rose Tattoo
as Serafina Delle RoseA grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating...
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The Golden Coach
as CamillaA viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 18th-century Peru.
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L'amore
as The woman (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")In the first episode, a heartbroken woman talks to her ex-lover on the phone. In the second, a...
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Angelina
as Angelina BianchiA rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who...
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My Dad Is 100 Years Old
as Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)A tribute to Isabella Rossellini's father
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The Bandit
as LidiaAmong others, Ernesto returns to Turin after the war from a German POW camp; his household...
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The Passionate Thief
as Gioia 'Tortorella' FabbricottiOn New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply...
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Made in Italy
as Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
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We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi...
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Wild Is the Wind
as GioaA widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings...
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The Last Wagon
as Mary DunchettiToto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to...
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Vittorio D.
as Self (archive footage)A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and...
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Cinéma et Réalité
as SelfIn this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini...
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Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
as Anita GaribaldiThe story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.
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Hell in the City
as EgleA young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she...
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Girlfriend in a Coma
as Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and...
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Cavalleria
as FannyUmberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to...
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We, the Women
as Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.
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Full Speed
as Emilia - la camerieraA meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl.
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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past....
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The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
as Self - Actress (archive footage)The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which...
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Assunta Spina
as Assunta SpinaAssunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy.
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Down with Misery!
as Nannina StraselliThe two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the...
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Teresa Venerdì
as Maddalena/LolettaA comedy of errors in which the sweetly incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali (de Sica) has been run...
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Volcano
as Maddalena NatoliAn exiled Italian prostitute (Anna Magnani) shields her sister (Geraldine Brooks) from a...
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The Automobile
as AnnaAn ex-prostitute, feeling an emptiness in her life, decides to fill it by buying a car.
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Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
as Self (archive footage)Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".
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The War of the Volcanoes
as Self (archive footage)In 1948, a fan letter arrived for director Roberto Rossellini from Ingrid Bergman, one of...
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Tre donne - La sciantosa
as Flora TorresLa Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian...
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1870
as Teresa ParentiRome, 1870. Opponents of the church power are being sent to prison. Some of the exhausted...
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The Peddler and the Lady
as ElidePeppino, a fishmonger on Campo de' Fiori, a famous Roman marketplace, works alongside Elide, a...
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
as SelfA documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.
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Princess Tarakanova
as Marietta, la camerieraA film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.
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Peddlin' in Society
as Gioconda PerfettiThanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She...
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Bellissime
as (archive footage)Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women...
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La fuggitiva
as Wanda ReniIn the absence of the biological mother, too busy pursuing her theatrical career, we see the...
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The Awakening
as suor LetiziaDirected by the incredibly prolific Mario Camerini, Suor Letizia was released in...
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Quei due
as PierottaAdventures of two provincial actors looking for anyway done with something to eat. They are...
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Luck Comes from Heaven
as ZizìThe merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save...
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Josefa's Loot
as JosefaJustin, a lyricist by trade, and his friend Pierre, a composer, lead a bohemian life in Paris....
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Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
as JolandaThis vehicle for the great actress Anna Magnani was one of the four made for Italian television...
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Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
as Self (archive footage)Forty years after his death, this documentary pays tribute to one of the major filmmakers of...
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Quand Jean devint Renoir
as Camilla (archive footage)The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to...
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Before Him All Rome Trembled
as AdaAn opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.
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My Name Is Anna Magnani
as Self (archive footage)Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted...
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The Passion of Anna Magnani
as Self (archive footage)The destiny of legendary actress Anna Magnani through archive footage, often unpublished.
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Revenge
as Adele VicarelliA man comes home from the war and finds both his plant and his family destroyed.
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30 Seconds of Love
as Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di TullioA married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular...
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La vita è bella
as VirginiaCount Alberto has lost his wealth at the gaming table, he wants to commit suicide but is stopped...
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Unkown Men of San Marino
as Liana, la prostitutaA mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the...
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Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
as Gioia (archive footage)Bonus DVD accompanying the special edition CD "The Movie Album". The DVD contains Barbra...
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Woman Trouble
as Linda BertoniDriven by the constant quarrels with his wife and humiliated by a rich Milanese industrialist...
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Rossellini Under the Volcano
as Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)A documentary about Roberto Rossellini and the making of his 1950 film "Stromboli."
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Quartetto pazzo
as ElenaElena invites her former husband Roberto to her country house with the aim of winning him back...
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The Blind Woman of Sorrento
as Anna, la sua amanteDrama set in the nineteenth century in Sorrento in southern Italy. It is an adaptation of the...
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Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
as Self (archive footage)Made up almost entirely of archival interviews with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini...
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What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery GuestFour panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...
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The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self (archive footage)The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...
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The Oscars
as SelfAn annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
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