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Occupation
  
Actress

Children
  
Luca Magnani

Role
  
Film actress


Name
  
Anna Magnani

Years active
  
1928–1972

Albums
  
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Born
  
7 March 1908 (
1908-03-07
)

Died
  
September 26, 1973, Rome, Italy

Spouse
  
Goffredo Alessandrini (m. 1935–1950)

Movies
  
Rome - Open City, Mamma Roma, The Rose Tattoo, Bellissima, The Fugitive Kind

Similar People
  
Luca Magnani, Roberto Rossellini, Goffredo Alessandrini, Aldo Fabrizi, Sophia Loren

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Anna Magnani ([ˈanna maɲˈɲaːni]; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo.

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Born in Rome, she worked her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs. During her career, her only child was stricken by polio when he was 18 months old and remained crippled.

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She was referred to as "La Lupa," the "perennial toast of Rome" and a "living she-wolf symbol" of the cinema. Time magazine described her personality as "fiery", and drama critic Harold Clurman said her acting was "volcanic". In the realm of Italian cinema she was "passionate, fearless, and exciting," an actress that film historian Barry Monush calls "the volcanic earth mother of all Italian cinema." Director Roberto Rossellini called her "the greatest acting genius since Eleonora Duse". Playwright Tennessee Williams became an admirer of her acting and wrote The Rose Tattoo specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received an Oscar in 1955.

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After meeting director Goffredo Alessandrini she received her first screen role in La cieca di Sorrento (The Blind Woman of Sorrento) (1934) and later achieved international fame in Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945), considered the first significant movie to launch the Italian neorealism movement in cinema. As an actress she became recognized for her dynamic and forceful portrayals of "earthy lower-class women" in such films as L'Amore (1948), Bellissima (1951), The Rose Tattoo (1955), The Fugitive Kind (1960) and Mamma Roma (1962). As early as 1950 Life magazine had already stated that Magnani was "one of the most impressive actresses since Garbo".

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Early years

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Magnani's parentage and birthplace are uncertain. Some sources suggest she was born in Rome, others in Egypt. Her mother was Marina Magnani. The film director, Franco Zeffirelli, who claimed to know Magnani well, states in his autobiography that she was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to an Italian-Jewish mother and Egyptian father, and that "only later did she become Roman when her grandmother brought her over and raised her in one of the Roman slum districts." Magnani herself stated that her mother was married in Egypt but returned to Rome before giving birth to her at Porta Pia; and did not know how the rumour of her Egyptian birth got started. She was enrolled in a French convent school in Rome where she learned to speak French and play the piano. She also developed a passion for acting from watching the nuns stage their Christmas plays. This period of formal education lasted until the age of fourteen.

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She was a "plain, frail child with a forlornness of spirit". Her grandparents compensated by pampering her with food and clothes. Yet while growing up, she is said to have felt more at ease around "more earthly" companions, often befriending the "toughest kid on the block". This trait carried over into her adult life when she proclaimed, "I hate respectability. Give me the life of the streets, of common people."

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At age 17, she went on to study at the Eleonora Duse Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in Rome for two years. To support herself, Magnani sang in nightclubs and cabarets; leading to her being dubbed "the Italian Édith Piaf". However, an actor friend Micky Knox, writes that she "never studied acting formally" and started her career in Italian music halls singing traditional Roman Folk songs. "She was instinctive" he writes. "She had the ability to call up emotions at will, to move an audience, to convince them that life on the stage was as real and natural as life in their own kitchen."

Stage

She was considered an "outstanding theatre actress" in Anna Christie and The Petrified Forest and had a successful career in variety shows.

Early film roles

In 1933 she was acting in experimental plays in Rome when she was discovered by Italian filmmaker Goffredo Alessandrini. He had been one of the first Italian filmmakers to make use of sound. The two married the same year, and he subsequently directed her in her first major film role in The Blind Woman of Sorrento (La Cieca di Sorrento) in 1934. In 1941, Magnani starred in Teresa Venerdì (Friday Theresa) with the writer and director Vittorio De Sica. He called this Magnani's "first true film". In it she plays Loletta Prima, the girlfriend of De Sica’s character, Pietro Vignali. De Sica described Magnani's laugh as "loud, overwhelming, and tragic".

Acting career

During her career Magnani worked alongside a number of the most pre-eminent directors and screenwriters; including Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Jean Renoir, Sidney Lumet, and Tennessee Williams.

Rome, Open City (1945)

Her film career had spread over almost 20 years before she gained international renown as Pina in Roberto Rossellini's neorealist milestone Roma, città aperta (Rome, Open City, 1945). Her harrowing death scene remains one of cinema's most devastating moments. The film was about Italy's final days under German occupation during World War II where Magnani gave a "brilliant performance" as a woman who dies fighting to protect her husband, an underground fighter against the Nazis.

In Italy (and gradually elsewhere) she soon became established as a star, although she lacked the conventional beauty and glamour often associated with the term. Slightly plump and rather short in stature with a face framed by unkempt raven hair and eyes encircled by deep, dark shadows, she smouldered with seething earthiness and volcanic temperament. Rossellini, whom she called "this forceful, secure courageous man", was her lover at the time, and she collaborated with him on other films.

L'Amore: The Human Voice and The Miracle (1948)

Other collaborations with Rossellini include L'Amore, a two part film from 1948 which includes "The Miracle" and "The Human Voice" ("Il miracolo", and "Una voce umana"). In the former, Magnani, playing a peasant outcast who believes the baby she's carrying is Christ, plumbs both the sorrow and the righteousness of being alone in the world. The latter film, based on Jean Cocteau's play about a woman desperately trying to salvage a relationship over the telephone, is remarkable for the ways in which Magnani's powerful moments of silence segue into cries of despair.

Volcano (1950)

After "The Miracle", Rossellini promised to direct Magnani in a film he was preparing which he told her would be "the crowning vehicle of her career". However, when the screenplay was completed, he instead gave the role for Stromboli to the Swedish actress, Ingrid Bergman. The two subsequently began a love affair; and this resulted in Magnani's permanent breakup with Rossellini.

As a result, Magnani took on the starring role of Volcano, which was said to have been deliberately produced to invite comparison: both films were shot in similar locales of Aeolian Islands only 40 kilometres apart; both actresses played independent-minded roles in a neorealist fashion; and both films were shot simultaneously. Life magazine wrote, "... in an atmosphere crackling with rivalry... Reporters were accredited, like war correspondents, to one or the other of the embattled camps.... Partisanship infected the Via Veneto (boulevard in Rome), where Magnaniacs and Bergmaniacs clashed frequently." However, Magnani still considered Rossellini the "greatest director she ever acted for".

Bellissima (1951)

In Luchino Visconti's Bellissima (1951) she plays Maddalena, a blustery, obstinate stage mother who drags her daughter to Cinecittà for the 'Prettiest Girl in Rome' contest, with dreams that her plain daughter will be a star. Her emotions in the film went from those of rage and humiliation to maternal love. The film was made during the "grim period" of Italy's post-World War II recovery.

The Golden Coach (1953)

Magnani then went on to star as Camille (stage name: Columbine) in Jean Renoir's film Le Carrosse d'or (also known as The Golden Coach) in 1953. Here she played a woman torn between three men - a soldier, a bullfighter, and a viceroy. Renoir called her "the greatest actress I have ever worked with".

The Rose Tattoo (1955)

She played the widowed mother of a teenage daughter in Daniel Mann's 1955 film, The Rose Tattoo, based on the play by Tennessee Williams. It co-starred Burt Lancaster, and was Magnani's first English speaking role in a mainstream Hollywood movie, winning her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Lancaster, who played the role of a "lusty truck driver", said that "if she had not found acting as an outlet for her enormous vitality, she would have become 'a great criminal'".

Film historian John DiLeo has written that Magnani's acting in the film "displays why she is inarguably one of the half dozen greatest screen actresses of all time", and added:

"Whenever Magnani laughs or cries (which is often), it's as if you've never seen anyone laugh or cry before: has laughter ever been so burstingly joyful or tears so shatteringly sad?

Tennessee Williams wrote the screenplay and based the character of Serafina on Magnani, as Williams was a great admirer of her acting abilities, and he even stipulated that the movie "must star what Time described as 'the most explosive emotional actress of her generation, Anna Magnani." In his Memoirs, Williams described why he insisted on Magnani playing this role:

"Anna Magnani was magnificent as Serafina in the movie version of Tattoo.... She was as unconventional a woman as I have known in or out of my professional world, and if you understand me at all, you must know that in this statement I am making my personal estimate of her honesty, which I feel was complete. She never exhibited any lack of self-assurance, any timidity in her relations with that society outside of whose conventions she quite publicly existed.... [s]he looked absolutely straight into the eyes of whomever she confronted and during that golden time in which we were dear friends, I never heard a false word from her mouth."

It was originally staged on Broadway with Maureen Stapleton as Magnani's English was too limited at the time for her to star. Magnani won other Best Actress awards for her role, including the BAFTA Film Award, Golden Globes Award, National Board of Review, USA, and the New York Film Critics Circle Awards. When her name was announced as the Oscar winner, an American journalist called her in Rome to tell her the news; his challenge was convincing her he wasn't joking.

The Fugitive Kind (1960)

Magnani worked with Tennessee Williams again for the 1960 film, The Fugitive Kind (originally titled, Orpheus Descending) directed by Sidney Lumet, in which she played Lady Torrance and starred with Marlon Brando. The original screenplay Orpheus Descending was another play inspired by Magnani, although she similarly did not feature in the Broadway play. In the film she played a woman "hardened by life's cruelties and a grief that will not fade." It also co-starred a young Joanne Woodward in one of her early roles. In an article he wrote for Life magazine Williams discussed why he chose her for the part:

"Anna and I had both cherished the dream that her appearance in the part I created for her in The Fugitive Kind would be her greatest triumph to date... She is simply a rare being who seems to have about her a little lightning-shot cloud all her own.... In a crowded room she can sit perfectly motionless and silent and still you feel the atmospheric tension of her presence, its quiver and hum in the air like a live wire exposed, and a mood of Anna's is like the presence of royalty."

The Wild, Wild Women (Nella Citta' L'Inferno, 1958) paired Magnani, as an unrepentant streetwalker, with Giulietta Masina in a women-in-prison film.

Mamma Roma (1962)

In Pier Paolo Pasolini's Mamma Roma (1962), Magnani is both the mother and the whore, playing an irrepressible prostitute determined to give her teenage son a respectable middle-class life. Mamma Roma, while one of Magnani's critically acclaimed films, was not released in the United States until 1995, deemed too controversial thirty years earlier. By now she was frustrated at being typecast in the roles of poor women. Magnani in 1963 commented "I’m bored stiff with these everlasting parts as a hysterical, loud, working-class woman".

The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)

In one of her last film roles, The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969), she co-starred with Anthony Quinn, and they played husband and wife in what Life magazine called "perhaps the most memorable fight since Jimmy Cagney smashed Mae Clarke in the face with a half a grapefruit." Magnani and Quinn did feud in private outside view of the cameras, however, and their animosity spilled over into their scenes:

"By the time the movie makers were ready to shoot the fight scene, the stars were ready too. Magnani not only went for Quinn with the pasta and with a rolling pin, but with her foot; she kicked so hard she broke a bone in her right foot. She also bit him in the neck. 'That's not in the script', Quinn protested. Magnani snarled, 'I'm supposed to win this fight, remember?"

Fellini's Roma (1972)

She later played herself (within a dramatic context) in Federico Fellini's Roma (1972). Towards the end of her career, Magnani was quoted as having said, "The day has gone when I deluded myself that making movies was art. Movies today are made up of…intellectuals who always make out that they’re teaching something".

Acting style

According to film critic Robin Wood Magnani's "persona as a great actress is built, not on transformation, but on emotional authenticity... [she] doesn't portray characters but expresses 'genuine' emotions." Her style is notable by not displaying the more obvious attributes of the female star, with neither her face or physical makeup being considered "beautiful". However, she possesses a "remarkably expressive face," and for American audiences, at least, she represents "what Hollywood had consistently failed to produce: 'reality'". She was the atypical star, the "nonglamorous human being", as her genuine style of acting became a "rejection of glamour".

Her most distinguished work in Hollywood is in Wild is the Wind, according to Wood. Directed by George Cukor, "the American cinema's greatest director of actresses," he was able to draw out the "individual essence" of Magnani's "sensitive and inward performance." Her other well-known Hollywood films were The Rose Tattoo, which she won the best actress Oscar for in 1955, and The Fugitive Kind.

Personal life

During Benito Mussolini's rule, Magnani was known to make rude jokes about the Italian Fascist Party.

She married her first film director, Goffredo Alessandrini, in 1935, two years after he discovered her on stage. After they married, she retired from full-time acting to "devote herself exclusively to her husband", although she continued to play smaller film parts. They separated in 1942.

Magnani had a love affair with the actor Massimo Serato, by whom she had her only child, a son named Luca, who was born on October 29, 1942 in Rome, after her separation from Alessandrini. Magnani's life was struck by tragedy when Luca came down with crippling polio at only 18 months of age. He never regained use of his legs. As a result, she spent most of her early earnings for specialists and hospitals. After once seeing a legless war veteran drag himself along the sidewalk, she said, "I realize now that it's worse when they grow up", and resolved to earn enough to "shield him forever from want".

In 1945 she fell in love with director Roberto Rossellini while working on Roma, Città Aperta aka Rome, Open City (1945). "I thought at last I had found the ideal man... [He] had lost a son of his own and I felt we understood each other. Above all, we had the same artistic conceptions." Rossellini had become violent, volatile and possessive, and they argued constantly about films or out of jealousy. "In fits of rage they threw crockery at each other." As artists, however, they complemented each other well while working on neorealist films. The two finally split apart when Rossellini fell in love with and married, Ingrid Bergman.

Magnani was mystically inclined and consulted astrologers, as well as believing in numerology. She also claimed to be clairvoyant. She ate and drank very little and could subsist for long periods on nothing more than black coffee and cigarettes. However, these habits often affected her sleep: "My nights are appalling," she said. "I wake up in a state of nerves and it takes me hours to get back in touch with reality." Perhaps her strangest quirk was her love of defleaing street kittens with her thumbnails.

Death

Magnani died at the age of 65 in Rome from pancreatic cancer in 1973. Huge crowds gathered for the funeral. She was provisionally laid to rest in the family mausoleum of Roberto Rossellini; but then subsequently interred in the Cimitero Comunale of San Felice Circeo in southern Lazio.

Video clips

  • various movie clips on YouTube
  • scene from Rome, Open City on YouTube
  • scene from The Fugitive Kind on YouTube with Marlon Brando
  • "A Tribute slide show" on YouTube
  • scene from Wild is the Wind on YouTube with Anthony Quinn
  • scene from Correva l'anno di grazia' on YouTube with Marcello Mastroianni
  • Filmography

    Actress
    1972
    Roma as
    Anna Magnani
    1972
    1870 as
    Teresa Parenti
    1971
    The Automobile (TV Movie) as
    Anna
    1971
    Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro (TV Movie) as
    Jolanda
    1971
    Tre donne - La sciantosa (TV Movie) as
    Flora Torres
    1969
    The Secret of Santa Vittoria as
    Rosa
    1965
    Made in Italy as
    Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
    1964
    Full Hearts and Empty Pockets as
    Woman (uncredited)
    1963
    Le magot de Josefa as
    Josefa
    1962
    Mamma Roma as
    Mamma Roma
    1960
    The Passionate Thief as
    Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
    1960
    The Fugitive Kind as
    Lady Torrance
    1959
    ...and the Wild Wild Women as
    Egle
    1957
    Wild Is the Wind as
    Gioia
    1956
    The Awakening as
    Suor Letizia
    1955
    The Rose Tattoo as
    Serafina Delle Rose
    1955
    I pinguini ci guardano (voice)
    1953
    Siamo donne as
    Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
    1952
    The Golden Coach as
    Camilla
    1952
    Anita Garibaldi as
    Anita Garibaldi
    1951
    Beautiful as
    Maddalena Cecconi
    1950
    The Ways of Love as
    Nannina
    1950
    Vulcano as
    Maddalena Natoli
    1948
    Woman Trouble as
    Linda Bertoni
    1948
    L'amore as
    La donna al telefono (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
    1948
    Scarred as
    Assunta Spina
    1948
    Unknown Men of San Marino as
    Liana, la prostituta
    1947
    Angelina as
    Angelina Bianchi
    1946
    Peddlin' in Society as
    Gioconda Perfetti
    1946
    Before Him All Rome Trembled as
    Ada
    1946
    The Bandit as
    Lidia
    1946
    Revenge as
    Adele Vicarelli
    1945
    Abbasso la miseria! as
    Nannina Straselli
    1945
    Rome, Open City as
    Pina
    1945
    Crazy Quartet as
    Elena
    1944
    Il fiore sotto gli occhi as
    Maria Comasco, l'attrice
    1943
    L'ultima carrozzella as
    Mary Dunchetti, la canzonettista
    1943
    The Peddler and the Lady as
    Elide
    1943
    La vita è bella as
    Virginia
    1943
    L'avventura di Annabella as
    La mondana
    1942
    La fortuna viene dal cielo as
    Zizì
    1942
    Finalmente soli as
    Ninetta alias "Lulù"
    1941
    Doctor, Beware as
    Loletta Prima
    1941
    La fuggitiva as
    Wanda Reni
    1940
    Una lampada alla finestra as
    Ivana, l'amante di Max
    1938
    La principessa Tarakanova as
    Marietta, la cameriera
    1936
    Thirty Seconds of Love as
    Gertrude - sorella di Tullio
    1936
    Cavalleria as
    Fanny
    1935
    Quei due as
    Pierotta (uncredited)
    1934
    Full Speed as
    Emilia - la Cameriera
    1934
    The Blind Woman of Sorrento as
    Anna, la sua amante
    1928
    Scampolo (uncredited)
    Writer
    1952
    Anita Garibaldi (uncredited)
    1947
    Angelina (screenplay - as A. Magnani)
    Soundtrack
    1997
    Auguri professore (performer: "Scapricciatiello")
    1971
    Tre donne - La sciantosa (TV Movie) (performer: "'O surdato 'nnammurato", "Frou Frou del tabarin", "Le rose rosse" - uncredited)
    1962
    Mamma Roma (performer: "Violino tzigano" - uncredited)
    1960
    The Passionate Thief (performer: "Geppina Gepi" - uncredited)
    1959
    ...and the Wild Wild Women (performer: "Maruzzella", "Domenica è sempre domenica", "Papaveri e papere" - uncredited)
    1957
    Wild Is the Wind (performer: "Scapricciatiello")
    1953
    Siamo donne (performer: "Com'è bello fa' l'amore quann'è sera" - uncredited)
    1951
    Beautiful (performer: "Il Valzer Dello Zigo Zago" - uncredited)
    1950
    Vulcano (performer: "'A nannulidda (Ciuri ciuri)" - uncredited)
    1946
    Peddlin' in Society (performer: "Canta, se la vuoi cantar... (Quanto sei bella Roma)" - uncredited)
    1945
    Abbasso la miseria! (performer: "L'eco der core", "Nanni'" - uncredited)
    1943
    La vita è bella (performer: "Ebbene, tu partirai", "Deh, vieni all'anima mia")
    1941
    Doctor, Beware (performer: "Qui nel cuor" - uncredited)
    1936
    Cavalleria (performer: "La canzone della sciantosa" - uncredited)
    Thanks
    2009
    Omaggio a Roma (Short) (grateful thanks)
    2007
    Alicudi 2 Selvaggia (Carnet Filmé: 25 avril 2007) (Documentary) (dedicated to)
    Self
    1963
    Pariser Journal (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode #3.6 (1963) - Self
    1963
    Cinépanorama (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 15 June 1963 (1963) - Self
    1957
    Il musichiere (TV Series) as
    Self (1959)
    1957
    The 29th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Presenter
    1956
    The 28th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Presenter
    1953
    What's My Line? (TV Series) as
    Self - Mystery Guest
    - Anna Magnani (1953) - Self - Mystery Guest
    Archive Footage
    2023
    Pronto? Anna sono io... (Documentary) as
    Self
    2022
    To Prepare for Discovery: An Anna Magnani Rhapsody (Documentary short) as
    Serafina Delle Rose
    2022
    Compression (TV Series documentary)
    - Compression Il Bandito de Alberto Lattuada (2022)
    2020
    Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (Documentary) as
    Lady Torrance
    2020
    The Rossellinis (Documentary) as
    Self
    2019
    La passione di Anna Magnani (Documentary) as
    Self
    2017
    Maria By Callas (Documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2017
    Quand Jean devint Renoir (TV Movie documentary) as
    Camilla
    2016
    Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion (TV Movie documentary)
    2015
    Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Documentary) as
    Pina (uncredited)
    2014
    Colpo di scena (TV Series) as
    Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
    - Carlo Giuffré (2014) - Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti (uncredited)
    2013
    Donne nel mito: Anna Magnani a Hollywood (Documentary short) as
    Self
    2012
    La guerra dei vulcani (Documentary) as
    Self
    2012
    Dai nostri inviati: La Rai e l'Istituto Luce raccontano la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1932-1953 (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2010
    Dai nostri inviati: La Rai racconta la Mostra del cinema 1954-1967 (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    2009
    Hollywood sul Tevere (Documentary) as
    Self
    2009
    Vittorio D. (Documentary) as
    Self
    2008
    Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità (TV Movie documentary)
    2007
    Chris & Don: A Love Story (Documentary) as
    Self
    2007
    Suso - Conversazioni con Margherita D'Amico (Documentary) as
    Self
    2006
    Il était une fois... (TV Mini Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Rome, ville ouverte (2006) - Self
    2005
    A proposito di... 'Bellissima' (Video short) as
    Maddalena Cecconi
    2005
    My Dad Is 100 Years Old (Documentary short) as
    Pina (uncredited)
    2005
    The Children of Rome Open City (Documentary) as
    Self
    2004
    Legends of World Cinema (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Anna Magnani - Self
    2004
    Bellissime (Documentary)
    2003
    Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album (Music Video) as
    Gioia
    2001
    Timeless Cinema (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self (uncredited)
    2001
    Roberto Rossellini: Frammenti e battute (Documentary) as
    Self - Pina, Nanni
    1999
    Biography (TV Series documentary) as
    Pina (clip from Roma citta aperta (1945))
    - Ingrid Bergman: A Passionate Life (1999) - Pina (clip from Roma citta aperta (1945))
    1999
    Luchino Visconti (Documentary) as
    Self
    1997
    Rossellini sotto il vulcano (TV Movie documentary) as
    Maddalena Natoli
    1996
    Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self (Oscar show) (uncredited)
    1994
    American Masters (TV Series documentary) as
    Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance
    - Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage (1994) - Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance
    1993
    The 65th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self
    1993
    Rossellini visto da Rossellini (Documentary)
    1991
    O Espectador que o Cinema Esqueceu (Short)
    1988
    Maria Callas: La Divina - A Portrait (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1979
    My Name Is Anna Magnani (Documentary) as
    Self
    1975
    Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
    1974
    Grand écran (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Sacha Guitry: Quadrille (1974) - Self
    1958
    The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #11.21 (1958) - Self
    1955
    Carosello del varietà as
    Loletta Prima

    References

    Anna Magnani Wikipedia