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...heart attack after returning from the Cannes Film Festival; in Rome. Rossellini made his reputation with Open City, a film clandestinely made in Italy in 1944, and followed this success with Paisan, Germany, Year Zero and dozens of other films and TV movies. His enduring companion was Actress Anna Magnani, who is buried in his family mausoleum, but he also had a highly publicized affair with Ingrid Bergman. Finally married in 1950, they parted...
...most recent film, Fellini Roma, Fellini occasionally has members of the cast step out from the tapestry to address his audience, like Anna Magnani as she reaches the door to her apartment and bids us all good night. In Amarcord Fellini plays around further with this device; along with the exquisite diction of the Italian actors and the rhythm and beauty and strangeness (to the English ear) of what they are saying, this lends a theatrical, almost ritualistic quality to the film. These characters, though, are faintly ridiculous. By stepping out of the community to address us, they forfeit...
Dovzhenko's Earth and Rosselini's The Miracle, with Anna Magnani and Frederico Fellini, Sunday...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH: Une Simple Histoire by Marcel Hanoun, and The Miracle by Rossellini starring Anna Magnani and Federico Fellini...
Died. Anna Magnani, 65, disheveled diva of Italian and American films; of cancer of the pancreas; in Rome. With her brooding, baggy eyes, Magnani emerged as one of Italy's best actresses after her 1945 role in Open City, a neo-realistic film of the Nazi occupation of Rome. Awarded an Oscar in 1956 for her portrayal of a truck driver's wife in The Rose Tattoo, her first Hollywood movie, the indomitable Magnani went on to star in The Fugitive Kind and The Secret of Santa Vittoria. Her well-publicized love life included a long affair with...