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Magnani, Anna
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Magnani, Anna

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Anna Magnani, 1958.
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(born March 7, 1908, Rome, Italy—died Sept. 26, 1973, Rome) Italian film actress. An illegitimate child brought up in poverty, she became a nightclub singer noted for her bawdy street songs. After acting in a touring company, she made her film debut in The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1934). She earned international fame for her role in Roberto Rossellini's Open City (1945). She became known for her forceful portrayals of earthy, working-class women in films such as The Miracle (1948), Bellissima (1951), The Rose Tattoo (1955, Academy Award), The Fugitive Kind (1960), and Mamma Roma (1962).
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In attempting to address this question, let us follow Christopher Wagstaff's lead in analyzing the remarkable acting performance of Anna Magnani as she propels herself through the passage leading to the street, and then at the departing truck, with a wild fury that is extraordinary in the literal sense.
Pina's pregnancy, traumatic realism, and the after-life of Open City by Marcus, Millicent / Italica
Forster, and Tennessee Williams, and many film actors -- Montgomery Clift, Henry Fonda, Anna Magnani, and Ginger Rogers.
AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
Others include Marlon Brando's scheming Okinawan interpreter seducing the island's naive American occupiers in The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956), and Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani as an Italian village mayor and his wife running rings round retreating German soldiers in The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969).
California Dreamin' (Endless) by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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