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"She was so much beyond any convention as no one else that I\\\'ve known in my life ... was rooted in this Unbürgerlichkeit probably their proud self-assurance." Tennessee Williams, Memoirs (1972), Ger Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1977, p. 209
Born in poverty as an illegitimate child, Anna Magnani grew up with her grandmother in Rome. She performed in nightclubs as a singer in order to survive as a student at the State Theater School in Rome. After graduating, she joined a traveling theater. She joined in 1928 in Augusto Geninas silent Scampolo and in the 30s in several smaller films. She is best known, however, until 1941 with the movie Teresa Venerdì by Vittorio De Sica.
The breakthrough as an internationally acclaimed new movie star in Italy succeeded in 1945, when Roberto Rossellini - with whom she was allied privately - it was the role of Pina in Rome, Open City, a masterpiece of neo-realism. From then on, she worked only for the film and for all the leading directors of the 50s and 60s.
1955 they hired the American director Daniel Mann of the Tennessee Williams - adaptation of The Rose Tattoo. For her portrait of Italian-American widow Serafina Delle Rose alongside Burt Lancaster Magnani won the first Italian actress Oscar as best actress. Two years later she was still nominated once again for an Oscar. She played the lead role in George Cukor melodrama Wild Is the Wind. For this film she also received the Silver Bear at the Berlinale 1958.
Her final film in 1972 directed by Federico Fellini in his homage to her hometown of Rome (Fellini\\\'s Roma). A film, which also came to pay homage to the great Italian character actor, was at the time of realization of the film is already sick of cancer. In 1973, she succumbed to her disease. At the funeral, more than 100,000 people should have followed her coffin.
Born 7 March 1908
Rome, Italy
Died 26 September 1973 (aged 65)
Rome, Italy
Spouse(s) Goffredo Alessandrini (1935-1950)
Filmography
1938: rival of the Empress (Tarakanova) - Director: Fyodor Ozep, Mario Soldati
1941: Lovers innocence (Teresa Venerdì) - Director: Vittorio De Sica
1943: Campo de Fiori - Director: Mario Bonnard
1944: Foolish Quartet (Quartetto pazzo) - Directed by Guido Salvini
1945: Rome, Open City (Roma, città aperta) - Director: Roberto Rossellini
1945: To hell with poverty (Abbasso la miseria) - Director: Genaro Righelli
1946: The Bandit (Il bandito) - Director: Alberto Lattuada
1946: To hell with the wealth (Abbasso la ricchezza) - Director: Genaro Righelli
1947: The doomed (Assunta Spina) - Director: Mario Mattoli
1947: MPs Angelina (Angelina L\\\'Onorevole) - Director: Luigi Zampa (AM is also Co-screenwriter)
1948: Amore (L\\\'Amore) - Director: Roberto Rossellini
1948: Road reveries (Molti sogni per la strada) - Director: Mario Camerini
1949: Vulcano (Vulcano) - Director: William Dieterle
1951: Bellissima () - Director: Luchino Visconti
1952: Anita Garibaldi (Anita Garibaldi) - Director: Francesco Rosi
1952: The golden carriage (La Carrozza d\\\'oro) - Director: Jean Renoir
1953: We women (Siamo donne) - director of the 5th Episode with AM as an actress: Luchino Visconti
1955: The Rose Tattoo (The Rose Tattoo) - Director: Daniel Mann
1957: Fate of a Nun (Suor Letizia) - Director: Mario Camerini
1957: Wild is the Wind (Wild is the Wind) - Director: George Cukor (with Anthony Quinn)
1958: The Hell in the City (Nella città l\\\'inferno) - Director: Renato Castellani
1960: The man in the snakeskin (The Fugitive Kind) - Director: Sidney Lumet (with Marlon Brando)
1960: Thief of passion (Risate di gioia) - Director: Mario Monicelli
1962: Mamma Roma (Mamma Roma) - Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
1967: Made in Italy (made in Italy) - Director: Nanni Loy
1969: The Secret of Santa Vittoria (The Secret of Santa Vittoria) - Directed by Stanley Kramer (with Anthony Quinn and Hardy Kruger)
1972: Fellini\\\'s Roma (Roma) - Director: Federico Fellini (as Anna Magnani Anna Magnani)
