Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani ( born March 7, 1908 in Rome, † September 26, 1973 ibid ) was an Italian film actress.
Life
Anna Magnani, born illegitimate child in poverty, grew up with her grandmother in Rome in the Kingdom of Italy. She performed in nightclubs as a singer in order to survive as a student at the State Drama School in Rome. After graduating, she joined a traveling theater. She has appeared in 1928 in Augusto Geninas silent film Scampolo and in the 1930s in several smaller films. She is best known, however, only in 1941 with the film Teresa Venerdi by Vittorio De Sica.
The breakthrough as an internationally acclaimed new movie star in Italy she succeeded in 1945, when Roberto Rossellini - with whom she was also romantically involved privately - gave her the role of Pina in Rome, Open City, a masterpiece of neo-realism. From then on she only worked for the film and for all the leading directors of the 1950s and 1960s.
In 1955 she dedicated the American director Daniel Mann on the Tennessee Williams adaptation The Rose Tattoo. For her portrayal of Italian-American widow Serafina Delle Rose is located next Magnani Burt Lancaster became the first Italian actress Oscar as best actress. Two years later she was still nominated a second time for an Oscar. She played the lead role in George Cukor melodrama Wild is the Wind. For this film, she was also awarded the Silver Bear at the Berlinale 1958.
Your last film she made in 1972, directed by Federico Fellini: a small scene in Fellini's Roma. The film also came to pay tribute to the great Italian character actress, who was already ill at the time of the shooting. In 1973, she died at the age of 65 from pancreatic cancer. At the funeral, more than 100,000 people are to be followed her coffin.
Anna Magnanis grave is located in the municipal cemetery of San Felice Circeo, about 100 kilometers southeast of Rome.
From 1935 to 1950 she was married to the film director Goffredo Alessandrini and got together with him a son.
Quotes
" She was so much beyond any convention like no one else I have ever known in my life ... In this Unbürgerlichkeit probably rooted their proud self-confidence. "