Anna Magnani Overview:

Legendary actress, Anna Magnani, was born on Mar 7, 1908 in Rome, Italy. Magnani died at the age of 65 on Sep 26, 1973 in Rome, Italy and was laid to rest in Cimitero Comunale Cemetery in San Felice Circeo, Lazio, Italy.

MINI BIO:

Dark-haired, tempestuous, wild-eyed, angry-looking, Egyptian-born (some sources say Italian-born in 1903 or 1908) actress who, raised in Rome, became Italy's top star in post-war years. Despite a matronly figure, she took Hollywood by storm with the gale-force strength of her impassioned performances. She won an Oscar for The Rose Tattoo, and Paramount invited her back twice more. She was Oscar-nominated again for Wild is the Wind. Died, amid national mourning in Italy, from complications following a gall-bladder operation.

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HONORS and AWARDS:

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Anna Magnani was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning one for Best Actress for The Rose Tattoo (as Serafina Della Rose) in 1955.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1955Best ActressThe Rose Tattoo (1955)Serafina Della RoseWon
1957Best ActressWild Is the Wind (1957)GioiaNominated
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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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Italo Bombolini: It's nice to have a hot meal before you die.
Rosa Bombolini: You aren't going to die.
Italo Bombolini: I'm the mayor, no? The Germans come. I greet them. They threaten me! I spit in their face! They put a pistol to my head and blow out my brains!
Rosa Bombolini: Why would they put a pistol to your head? The whole world knows Bombolini's brains are in his ass.


Camilla: At the end of the second act, when Colombine goes, driven away by her masters, there is a tradition you seem not to know. The comedians bow to her.


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Convinced that she would never win the Oscar for The Rose Tattoo (1955), she didn't attend the ceremony. The reporter who woke her out of a sound sleep in Rome to give her the news had a difficult time convincing her he wasn't kidding. "You're lying," Magnini supposedly said. "If this is a joke, I'll kill you!".

Tennessee Williams wrote the role of Serafina in his play, The Rose Tattoo, for Anna, but her English skills were too limited to appear in the 1951 Broadway production. Instead, Maureen Stapleton played the role to great acclaim. Stapleton also would originate the role of Lady Torrance in Williams' Orpheus Descending, a role Magnani also would later play on film.

Had an extremely tempestuous relationship with Roberto Rossellini beginning in 1944 and ended when he deserted her for Ingrid Bergman. She was known to have hurled crockery at him during their volatile times. In describing her, he reportedly stated that, "She was born carrying her liver in her teeth".

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