Anna Magnani

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Anna Magnani

Anna Magnani (born March 7, 1908 in Rome , † September 26, 1973 there ) was an Italian film actress .

Life

Anna Magnani, born out of wedlock into poverty, grew up with her grandmother in Rome in the Kingdom of Italy . She performed as a singer in nightclubs to survive as a student at the Accademia nazionale d'arte drammatica in Rome. After graduation, she joined a touring stage. She appeared in Augusto Genina's silent film Scampolo in 1928 and in various smaller films in the 1930s. However, she only became known in 1941 with the film Teresa Venerdì by Vittorio De Sica .

Her breakthrough as an internationally acclaimed new film star in Italy came in 1945 when Roberto Rossellini - with whom she was also privately related - gave her the role of Pina in Rome, Open City , a masterpiece of neorealism . From then on she only worked for the film and with many important directors of the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1955, she committed the US-American director Daniel Mann for the Tennessee Williams - adaptation The Rose Tattoo . For her portrait of the Italian-American widow Serafina Delle Rose next to Burt Lancaster , Magnani became the first Italian actress to win the Oscar for best actress. Two years later she was nominated again for an Oscar. She played the lead role in George Cukor's melodrama Wild is the Wind . For this film she also received the Silver Bear at the 1958 Berlinale .

Her last film was made in 1972 with Federico Fellini in a small scene in the drama Fellini's Roma . The work of art paid homage to the great Italian character actress, who was already ill at the time of the shooting. In 1973 she died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 65 . More than 100,000 people are said to have followed her coffin at the funeral service. Anna Magnani's grave is in the municipal cemetery of San Felice Circeo , around 100 kilometers southeast of Rome.

From 1935 to 1950 she was married to the film director Goffredo Alessandrini . The father of their only son was the actor Massimo Serato , who was eight years his junior .

Quotes

“She was more outside of any convention than anyone else I have known in my life. ... Her proud self-confidence was probably also rooted in this unfairness. "

- Tennessee Williams : Memoirs

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Anna Magnani  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Anna Magnani
  2. ^ Tennessee Williams: Memoirs . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-10-092205-0 , p. 209.
personal data
SURNAME Magnani, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actress and Oscar winner
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Kingdom of Italy
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1973
Place of death Rome , Italy