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Highprofile Biography of Anna magnani images: Anna Magnani's breakthrough film was Roberto Rossellini's Open City in 1945, generally regarded as the first commercially successful Italian "neorealist" film of the postwar years. It was the film that gained her an international reputation. From then on, she never stopped working in films and in television, winning an A cademy Award for her performance in the screen version of Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo (she and Williams were close friends), and working all of Italy's leading directors of the 1950's, '60's, and '70's. She was famous for her earthy, passionate, woman-of-the-soil" roles. She and Rossellini were lovers for some years after Open City, until he began his infamous affair with Ingrid BergmanAnna was born in Rome, not in Egypt, as some biographies claim, on March 7, 1908. She was the illegitimate child of Marina Magnani and an unknown father, often said to be from Alexandria, Egypt, but whom Anna herself claimed was from the Calabria regi on of Italy (although she never knew his name). Raised in poverty by her maternal grandmother in Rome after her mother left her, she worked her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing in cabarets and nightclubs; then began touring the countryside with small repertory companies. Although she had a small role in a silent film in the late 1920's, she was not known as a film actress until 1941's Teresa Venerdi, directed by Vittorio DiSica. She and Rossellini were lovers for some years after Open City, until he began his infamous affair with Ingrid Bergman. Anna had one child out of wedlock by Italian actor Massimo Serato, the boy later stricken with polio and Anna dedicating her life to caring for him. Her one marriage, to Italian director Goffredo Alessandrini in the mid 1930's, lasted only a short while and ended in an annulment. Her last film was Fellini's Roma, in 1972. She died in Rome of a pancreatic tumor t he next year.

• Automobile, L' (1972/I) (TV)
• Correva l'anno di grazia 1870 (1971) (TV)
... aka 1870 (International: English title)
• Sciantosa, La (1970) (TV) .... Flora Torres
• The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) .... Rosa Bombolini
• 1943: un incontro (1969) (TV) .... Jolanda (infermiera)
• Made in Italy (1967) .... Adelina (segment 5 'La Famiglia', episode 3)
... aka À l'italienne (France)
... aka Made in Italy (USA)
• Magot de Josefa, Le (1963) .... Josefa
... aka Josefa's Loot (International: English title)
... aka Pila della Peppa, La (Italy)
• Mamma Roma (1962) .... Mamma Roma
• Risate di gioia (1960) .... Gioia
... aka Joyful Laughter
... aka Laugh for Joy
... aka The Passionate Thief
• The Fugitive Kind (1959) .... Lady Torrance
• Nella città l'inferno (1959) .... Egle
... aka ...and the Wild Wild Women (USA)
... aka Caged (UK)
... aka Enfer dans la ville, L' (France)
... aka Hell in the City (International: English title)
• Wild Is the Wind (1957) .... Gioia
• Suor Letizia (1957) .... Sister Letizia
... aka Più grande amore, Il (Italy: alternative title)
... aka The Awakening (USA)
... aka When Angels Don't Fly
• The Rose Tattoo (1955) .... Serafina Delle Rose
• Carosello del varietà (1955)
• Siamo donne (1953) .... As Herself
... aka Of Life and Love (USA)
... aka We, the Women (USA)
• Carrosse d'or, Le (1953) .... Camilla
... aka The Golden Coach (International: English title) (USA)
... aka Carrozza d'oro, La (Italy)
• Camicie rosse (1952) .... Anita Garibaldi
... aka Anita Garibaldi (USA)
... aka Chemises rouges, Les (France)
... aka Red Shirts
• Bellissima (1951) .... Maddalena Cecconi
• Vulcano (1950) .... Maddalena Natoli
... aka Volcano (USA)
• Amore, L' (1948) .... The Woman (segment "Una voce umana")/Nanni (segment "Il miracolo")
... aka Ways of Love (USA)
• Molti sogni per le strade (1948)
... aka The Street Has Many Dreams (UK)
... aka Woman Trouble
• Onorevole Angelina, L' (1947) .... Angelina Bianchi
• Assunta Spina (1947) .... Assunta Spina
... aka Scarred (USA)
• Abbasso la ricchezza! (1946) .... Gioconda Perfetti
... aka Down with Riches! (UK)
... aka Peddlin' in Society (USA)
• Bandito, Il (1946) .... Lidia
... aka The Bandit (USA)
• Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma (1946) .... Ada
... aka Before Him All Rome Trembled (USA)
• Sconosciuto di San Marino, Lo (1946) .... Liana, la prostituta
... aka Unknown Men of San Marino (International: English title)
• Uomo ritorna, Un (1946) .... Adele
... aka Revenge (USA)
• Abbasso la miseria! (1945) .... Nannina Straselli
... aka Down with Misery (International: English title)
• Roma, città aperta (1945) .... Pina
... aka Open City (USA)
... aka Rome, Open City
• Quartetto pazzo (1945) .... Elena
• Fiore sotto gli occhi, Il (1944) .... Maria Comasco, l'attrice
• Ultima carrozzella, L' (1943) .... Mary Dunchetti, la canzonettista
... aka The Last Wagon (International: English title)
• Assi della risata, Gli (1943) .... (segment "Il mio pallone")
... aka Programma comico (Italy: reissue title)
• Campo de' fiori (1943) .... Elide
... aka Peddler and the Lady (USA)
• Vita è bella, La (1943) .... Virginia
• Avventura di Annabella, L' (1943) .... La mondana
• Fortuna viene dal cielo, La (1942) .... Zizì
• Finalmente soli (1942) .... Ninetta alias "Lulù"
• Teresa Venerdì (1941) .... Maddalena Tentini/Loretta Prima
... aka Do You Like Women (USA)
... aka Doctor Beware
• Fuggitiva, La (1941) .... Wanda Reni
• Lampada alla finestra, Una (1940) .... Ivana, l'amante di Max
• Principessa Tarakanova, La (1938) .... Lady's Maid
... aka Betrayal
... aka Princess Tarakanova
... aka Tarakanowa (France)
• Cavalleria (1936) .... Fanny
• Trenta secondi d'amore (1936)
... aka Thirty Seconds of Love (USA)
• Quei due (1935)
• Cieca di Sorrento, La (1934) .... Anna, la sua amante
... aka The Blind Woman of Sorrento (USA)
• Tempo massimo (1934) .... Emilia
... aka Full Speed (USA)
• Scampolo (1928)
... aka Mädchen der Straße, Das (Germany)
• Filmography as: Actress, Writer, Herself, Archive Footage, Notable TV Guest Appearances
• Writer - filmography
(1950s) (1940s)
• Camicie rosse (1952)
... aka Anita Garibaldi (USA)
... aka Chemises rouges, Les (France)
... aka Red Shirts
• Onorevole Angelina, L' (1947) (screenplay) (as A. Magnani)
• Filmography as: Actress, Writer, Herself, Archive Footage, Notable TV Guest Appearances
• Herself - filmography
(1970s) (1950s)
• Roma (1972) (uncredited) .... Herself
... aka Fellini Roma (France)
... aka Fellini's Roma (USA)
• The 29th Annual Academy Awards (1957) (TV) .... Herself - Presenter: Best Actor in a Leading Role
• The 28th Annual Academy Awards (1956) (TV) .... Herself - Presenter: Best Screenplay (pre-filmed)
• Filmography as: Actress, Writer, Herself, Archive Footage, Notable TV Guest Appearances
• Archive Footage
• Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album (2003) (V) .... Gioia
• Roberto Rossellini: Frammenti e battute (2000) .... Herself, Pina, Nanni
• Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies (1996) (TV) (uncredited) .... Herself (Oscar show)
• Espectador que o Cinema Esqueceu, O (1991)
• Maria Callas: La Divina - A Portrait (1987) (TV) .... Herself
• Io sono Anna Magnani (1979) .... Herself
• Filmography as: Actress, Writer, Herself, Archive Footage, Notable TV Guest Appearances
• Notable TV Guest Appearances
• "Toast of the Town" playing "Herself" (archive footage) (episode # 11.21) 16 February 1958
• "What's My Line?" playing "Herself" 12 April 1953

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