Anna Magnani Biography: 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 ...
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