Anna Magnani Biography
Anna Magnani was an Italian stage and film actress born on 7 March 1908 in Rome, Kingdom of Italy. In her acting career she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo.
Magnani was referred to as “La Lupa,” the “perennial toast of Rome” and a “living she-wolf symbol” of the cinema. The “Time magazine” described her personality as “fiery”, and drama critic Harold Clurman said her acting was “volcanic”. She was “passionate, fearless, and exciting,” actress that film historian Barry Monush calls “the volcanic earth mother of all Italian cinema.”
She had her first screen role in La cieca di Sorrento (The Blind Woman of Sorrento) in 1934 and later achieved international fame in Rossellini’s Rome, Open City (1945). She has appeared in films such as L’Amore (1948), Bellissima (1951), The Rose Tattoo (1955), The Fugitive Kind (1960) and Mamma Roma (1962). She was recognized for her dynamic and forceful portrayals of “earthy lower-class women.”
Magnani died at the age of 65 in Rome from pancreatic cancer in 1973.
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In 1956, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Rose Tattoo.
Anna Magnani Husband
She was married to her first film director, Goffredo Alessandrini, in 1935, two years after he discovered her on stage. The couple separated in 1942. She had a love affair with the actor Massimo Serato with whom she had her only child, a son named Luca born on October 29, 1942 in Rome.
Anna Magnani Figlio | Son
Her son Luca Magnani came down with crippling polio at only 18 months of age. He never regained use of his legs.
Anna Magnani and her son Luca MagnaniAnna Magnani Bellissima
A stage mother (Anna Magnani) enters her plain little girl (Tina Apicella) in a prettiest-child-in-Rome contest.
Initial release: 4 January 1952 (Italy)
Director: Luchino Visconti
Language: Italian
Producer: Salvo D’Angelo
Screenplay: Luchino Visconti, Francesco Rosi, Suso Cecchi d’Amico
Anna Magnani Frasi | Phrases
- Happy times are short. To sum up the moments in a lifetime, do not make a week. Yet life is beautiful anyway.
- Great passions do not exist: they are fantasies of liars. There are only little loves that can last a little or a little longer.
- [He told the make-up artist] Do not take off a wrinkle. I paid them all dear.
- There is nothing more beautiful than a person in rebirth. Quanno s’ariarza after na fall, after na storm and returns stronger and beautiful de prima. With some scar in the most ner cores under the skin, but with the desire de stravorge er monno, even if only with a smile.
- The fact is that women like me are only attached to men with a personality superior to theirs: and I have never found a man with a personality capable of minimizing mine. I always found men, how to define them? Carucci. God: we cry also for those carucci, mind you, but they are half-lire tears. Incredible to say, the only man for whom I have not cried half-lyrous tears remains my husband: Goffredo Alessandrini. The only one, among those I have known, that I esteem myself without reserve and to whom I am attached. Of course there were no roses and flowers with him. I married him as a young girl and as long as I was his wife I had more horns than a basket of snails.
- The important thing is not to have wrinkles in the brain. Those in the face, sooner or later, await you at the gate.
- I understood that I was born an actress. I had only decided to become a cradle, between a tear and a caress less. Throughout my life I screamed with all of myself for this tear, I begged this caress. If today I had to die, know that I gave up. But it took me so many years, so many mistakes.
I have many figures inside me, many women, two thousand women. I just need to meet them. They must be true, that’s all. - It’s so unfair to die, since we’re born.
- I should have been a mother and Sofia my daughter. We would have made the whole world laugh! Loren play the part of Rosetta! People would have expected her to have raped the Moroccans and not the other way around.
Anna Magnani Rughe
Anna Magnani RugheAnna Magnani Movies
- 1928 Scampolo
- 1934 La cieca di Sorrento (The Blind Woman of Sorrento)
- 1934 Tempo massimo
- 1935 Quei due (Those Two)
- 1936 Cavalleria (Cavalry)
- 1936 Trenta secondi d’amore (Thirty Seconds of Love)
- 1938 La principessa Tarakanova (Princess Tarakanova)
- 1940 Una lampada all finestra
- 1941 Teresa Venerdì
- 1941 La fuggitiva
- 1942 La fortuna viene dal cielo
- 1942 Finalmente soli
- 1943 L’ultima carrozzella (The Last Wagon)
- 1943 Gli assi della risata
- 1943 Campo de’ fiori (The Peddler and the Lady)
- 1943 La vita è bella
- 1943 L’avventura di Annabella (Annabella’s Adventure)
- 1944 Il fiore sotto gli occhi
- 1945 Abbasso la miseria! (Down with Misery)
- 1945 Roma città aperta (Rome, Open City)
- 1945 Quartetto pazzo
- 1946 Abbasso la ricchezza! (Peddlin’ in Society)
- 1946 Il bandito (The Bandit)
- 1946 Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma (Before Him All Rome Trembled)
- 1946 Lo sconosciuto di San Marino (Unknown Men of San Marino)
- 1946 Un uomo ritorna
- 1947 L’onorevole Angelina
- 1948 Assunta Spina
- 1948 L’amore
- 1948 Molti sogni per le strade
- 1950 Volcano
- 1951 Bellissima
- 1952 Camicie rosse (Red Shirts)
- 1953 Le Carrosse d’or (The Golden Coach)
- 1955 The Rose Tattoo
- 1955 Carosello del varietà (Carousel of Variety)
- 1957 Wild Is the Wind
- 1957 Suor Letizia
- 1957 Nella città l’inferno
- 1960 The Fugitive Kind
- 1960 The Passionate Thief
- 1962 Mamma Roma
- 1966 Made in Italy
- 1969 The Secret of Santa Vittoria
- 1971 Tre donne
- 1971 Correva l’anno di grazia 1870 (1870)
- 1972 Roma
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