Overview
Born : March 7, 1908 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Died : September 26, 1973 in Rome, Lazio, Italy (pancreatic cancer)
Nicknames : La Magnani , Nannarella
Height : 5' 3" (1.6 m)
Anna Magnani was brought into the world in Rome, Italy (not in Egypt, as certain memoirs guarantee), on March 7, 1908. She was the offspring of Marina Magnani and an obscure dad frequently said to be from Alexandria, Egypt, yet whom Anna herself guaranteed was from the Calabria locale of Italy despite the fact that she never knew his name. Brought up in neediness by her maternal grandma in Rome after her mom left her, Anna managed Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing in nightclubs and night-clubs, then, at that point, started visiting the wide open with little repertory organizations.
Despite the fact that she played a little part in a quiet movie in the last part of the 1920s, she was not known as a movie entertainer until Doctor, Beware (1941), coordinated by Vittorio De Sica. Her advancement film was Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945) (A.K.A. Open City), for the most part viewed as the main economically effective Italian neorealist film of the post bellum years and the one that won her a global standing. From that point on, she didn't quit working in movies and TV, winning an Academy Award for her presentation in the screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo (1955), a section that was composed for her by her dear companion Williams. She worked with every one of Italy's driving overseers of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
She was eminent for her gritty, enthusiastic, lady of-the-dirt jobs. She and Rossellini were sweethearts for certain years after Open City, until he started his notorious undertaking with Ingrid Bergman. She had one kid, Luca, with Italian entertainer Massimo Serato. The kid was later blasted with polio and Magnani devoted her life to really focusing on him. Her main marriage, to Italian chief Goffredo Alessandrini during the 1930s, endured just a brief time and finished in a dissolution. Her last film was Federico Fellini's Roma (1972). She kicked the bucket in her local Rome from pancreatic malignant growth the next year at age 65.
Tennessee Williams, subsequent to meeting her, said, "I never saw a more excellent lady, gigantic eyes, skin the shade of Devonshire cream.".
Her kinship with Tennessee Williams was the subject of an Off-Broadway play in New York, Roman Nights, by Franco D'Alessandro, which featured Franca Barchiesi as Magnani and Roy Miller as Williams. A film transformation is in progress.
Persuaded that she could always lose the Oscar for The Rose Tattoo (1955), she didn't go to the service. The journalist who woke her out of a sound rest in Rome to give her the news struggled persuading her he was totally serious. "You're lying," Magnani probably said. "Assuming this is a joke, I'll kill you!".
Grandma of Italian entertainer Olivia Magnani.
Tennessee Williams composed the job of Serafina in his play, The Rose Tattoo, for Anna, yet her English abilities were too restricted to even think about showing up in the 1951 Broadway creation. All things considered, Maureen Stapleton assumed the part to incredible praise.
Was very eccentric and asserted she was visionary. She likewise smoked stogies.
Shipped off a religious community school at 7 years old where she learned French. She additionally was raised musically, had a profound performing voice and could play the piano and guitar.
Her 1933 union with chief Goffredo Alessandrini finished in 1940 however it was not until 1950 that the marriage was canceled.
Her cherished child Luca, the result of an undertaking with Italian matinée symbol Massimo Serato, was a casualty of juvenile polio and was sent by his mom to a Swiss center for medicines. Despite the fact that he could stroll with supports, the majority of his life has been spent in a wheelchair. She was granted Italy's Golden Violet Award as a commendable mother for her dedication.
Had a very furious relationship with Roberto Rossellini starting in 1944 and finished when he abandoned her for Ingrid Bergman. She was known to have heaved ceramics at him during their unstable times. In depicting her, he purportedly expressed that, "She was conceived conveying her liver in her teeth".
Tennessee Williams composed his play "The Rose Tattoo" in light of Anna. She was offered the lead job however turned down in light of the fact that she felt her order of the English language was not sufficient for the requesting job of Serafina Delle Rose. Maureen Stapleton was widely praised for her stage job. Notwithstanding, Anna acknowledged the screen adaptation when it was offered and won the Oscar, Golden Globe and New York Film Critics grants, among others.
A notable depressed person, she continually kept a thermometer nearby to actually take a look at her temperature.
Magnani was melancholy in the wake of learning she had terminal disease. Her child Luca and chief Roberto Rossellini, her one-time chief and lover, were at her bedside when she passed on at age 65 out of 1973. She was let go in the Rossellini family vault.
Helen Mirren named Magnani as her acting symbol and Burt Lancaster thought of her as the best entertainer with whom he at any point worked.
As Vittorio De Sica was exceptionally anxious to work with her, he initially cast her as Cesira in Two Women (1960), with 25-year-old Sophia Loren playing her modest 13-year-old little girl, Rosetta. Anyway Magnani felt that the age hole among Loren and her personality was too huge to possibly be disregarded and recommended that she play Cesira all things considered, any other way the film would have been unconvincing. Loren then, at that point, proceeded to play Cesira (with 12-year-old Eleonora Brown in the job of Rosetta) and won an Academy Award for her presentation.
Is one of three Italian entertainers to have won an Academy Award; the others are Sophia Loren and Roberto Benigni.
Is one of 13 Best Actress Oscar victors to have not acknowledged their Academy Award face to face, Magnani's being for The Rose Tattoo (1955). The others are Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Judy Holliday, Vivien Leigh, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, Anne Bancroft, Patricia Neal, Elizabeth Taylor, Maggie Smith, Glenda Jackson and Ellen Burstyn.
Was the 44th entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Rose Tattoo (1955) at The 28th Annual Academy Awards (1956) on March 21, 1956.
Jean Renoir assembled his supernatural film The Golden Coach (1952) around her exhibition as the entertainer Camilla from the commedia dell'arte.
She was granted a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6385 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
List of Anna Magnani Movies
- Roma
- 1870 (TV Movie)
- The Automobile (TV Movie)
- Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro (TV Movie)
- Tre donne - La sciantosa (TV Movie)
- The Secret of Santa Vittoria
- Made in Italy
- Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
- Josefa's Loot
- Mamma Roma
- The Passionate Thief
- The Fugitive Kind
- Caged
- Wild Is the Wind
- The Awakening
- I pinguini ci guardano (voice)
- The Rose Tattoo
- We, the Women
- The Golden Coach
- Anita Garibaldi
- Beautiful
- The Ways of Love
- Volcano
- The Street Has Many Dreams
- L'amore
- Scarred
- Unknown Men of San Marino
- Angelina
- Peddlin' in Society
- Before Him All Rome Trembled
- The Bandit
- Revenge
- Down with Misery
- Rome, Open City
- Quartetto pazzo
- The Last Wagon
- The Peddler and the Lady
- La vita è bella
- L'avventura di Annabella
- La fortuna viene dal cielo
- Finalmente soli
- Doctor, Beware
- La fuggitiva
- Una lampada alla finestra
- Thirty Seconds of Love
- Cavalleria
- Quei due
- Full Speed
- The Blind Woman of Sorrento & Many more....
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