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...University of Missouri with Tom, he pressured her grandfather, who worked for International Shoe, to send her to another school. She married someone else, and died while still young. That was the closest Williams came to marriage, though certain actresses have since had crushes on him. Says Anna Magnani, for whom he wrote The Rose Tattoo: "Tennessee is the only man I would marry immediately, if he asked me, because he is so full of emotion...
Ever since she came to Paris for a premiére in 1951, Italy's earthy Anna Magnani has lived, between films, in semiseclusion on the Left Bank. But for the glittering opening of the Lido's latest braless whizbang, Pour Vous, Anna made the Seine in the unlikely company of Shirley MacLaine. Though the moody Roman appeared to regard the proceedings with dyspeptic disdain, the eupeptic Shirley purred: "Miss Magnani was always one of my favorite actresses, and when we met in 1954, she became one of my favorite people...
Meeting in Beverly Hills, the American Guild of Creative Fashion Designers singled out the "Ten Worst-Dressed Actresses in Films." Among the victims of the group's needlework; Lucille Ball ("Nothing she wears makes sense, blends or complements''), Anna Magnani ("Gives the impression of someone playing Macbeth in tramp clothing"), Anita Ekberg ("A 39-in. bust wearing a size 12 dress"), Millie Perkins ("A very dear and sweet person but much too honest in her refusal to correct nature's mistakes"), Shelley Winters ("Her style sense is totally unrelated to anything living or dead") and Brigitte...
...Fugitive Kind. A high-priced cast that includes Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Victor Jory and Joanne Woodward turns Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending into a Mississippi bayou, now and then happens on islands of poetry...
...Fugitive Kind. The screen version of Playwright Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending has a kind of nauseating beauty, luridly reworking the myth of Orpheus in a dirty little town in Mississippi. With Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Victor Jory...