Word: silvana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hardly on a par with other Italian imports, Anna is entertaining mainly as a vehicle for Silvana Mangano's sensuous talents. Faced with a wellworn plot and a superinposed sound track, Mangano overcomes, both, and alternatey slinks and strides her way to a fine performance...
Anna (Lux Film; I.F.E.) is an Italian-made melodrama that bears a striking resemblance to a slick U.S. thriller. An alluring nightclub singer (Silvana Mangano) is torn between true love for an honest farmer (Raf Vallone) and sordid passion for a shady bartender (Vittorio Gassman). When Vallone kills Gassman in a hand-to-hand encounter, Silvana renounces the world and becomes a lay sister at a hospital. At this point, just when it appears that the movie is running out of plot, Vallone is seriously injured in an automobile accident and is wheeled into Silvana's hospital...
Italian Cinemactress Silvana (Bitter Rice) Mangano, visiting Manhattan to help ballyhoo "Italian Film Week," reported to police that her $14,000 diamond and ruby ring had been stolen from her hotel room...
...home to the Italian industry by Bitter Rice, a second-rate movie with arty pretensions and a nodding gesture to social problems (the exploitation of women workers in Italy's rice fields). Bitter Rice turned out to be a brilliant showcase for the tightly clad, womanly figure of Silvana Mangano, who helped make the picture the biggest-grossing foreign-language film ever shown in the U.S. Now the Italians have made a picture entitled Sensuality, starring Newcomer Eleonora Rossi-Drago, with which they expect to clean up in the U.S.-if it gets by the censors...
Upgraded Genius. With dollar success, the moviemakers lost some of the advantages of their pinchpenny early days. Silvana Mangano, who got $800 for her scenic rice-picking, now commands $32,000 a picture, while Italy's top star, Anna Magnani (Open City, The Miracle), commands $96,000. But Italian producers are still able to turn out a film for as little as $112,000, less than a tenth of Hollywood's average budget. In Italy's castle-crowded, ruin-laden countryside, they need build few sets. In a nation which talks with its eyes and hands, they...