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...movies caught her up in the mid-'30s. and in the next ten years she made about a dozen pictures-all of them bad most of them popular, some of them good experience. By 1944, when Roberto Rossellini offered her the lead in Open City Magnam had developed a style that was to set the acting fashion in Italy from that day to this. She called it realismo and overnight the narrow highways and byways of Italy were crowded with "Ma-gnamni," who frumped their hair down over their eyes, ripped a few strategic seams m their cheap cotton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: World's Greatest Actress | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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