Anna Magnani in "The Rose Tattoo"

Anna Magnani won an Oscar for playing Serafina Della Rose in The Rose Tattoo.

[@Olga-qg2ub]

"The Rose Tattoo" is a beautiful film... Anna Magnani was and still is A GREAT ACTRESS.

[@flannerymonaghan-morris1317]

Actually, Williams apparently had written the stage play 4 years earlier and had her in mind for the role, but she turned it down because she thought her English wasn’t at that level yet.

[@Lisaj4431]

I just found Magnani and now I'm hooked, I'm actually buying movies that she's in and telling family and friends. She's such a great actress!

[@loretta_3843]

She's great. So "human". She was a very intelligent, classy woman. A real artist. (Wouldn't they be playing Tombola instead of bingo? Maybe they put it in for an English speaking audience)

[@fededeluca-colombo8338]

The first italian Oscar. Thank you so much Anna. You was so beautiful. Sei stata un'attrice e una donna inarrivabile.

[@poetcomic1]

Bette Davis and Anna Magnani each other's favorite actress.

[@craigsmith157]

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is what you call talent. Anna Magnani was one of the best actresses who had grazed the silver screen. And to think she had to take English lessons to be cast in this film. And she brought home the Oscar for Best Actress of 1955. 🏆🎥🎬📽️🏆

[@steelers6titles]

Tennessee Williams intended his friend Anna Magnani to play Serafina. Magnani thought her English wasn't good enough; Maureen Stapleton played the role on Broadway. Watching the film, it is difficult to imagine anyone but Magnani in the role.

[@angelicagoldstein8049]

Her extraordinary talent would NEVER be appreciated today! There are not many actresses with her DEPTH and raw emotional power. Women's roles today rely mainly on artifice and sadly, are usually very one-dimensional. We need more female writers, directors, and studio heads to create the really important roles that now only exist for MEN. Some have tried and failed to penetrate the mostly male-dominated film industry. Tennessee Williams wrote parts SPECIFICALLY for her and others because his work could not be expressed by a mediocre actor. The power of her artistry could draw you into any role she played and made her uncommon beauty shine through.

[@marilynshively670]

+Angelica Goldstein think about this wonderful actress and compare her to the vapid shallow actresses in today's movies ( for the most part though there are one or two exceptions).

[@windstorm1000]

loved all your comments! spot on!

[@lizd.2343]

There has been a surge in women led shows and movies that have just stunned me in the last three years, Russian Doll, fleabag, Forever (amazon), I Tonya, Marvelous Ms. Maisel, Killing Eve, and The Favorite. There our many more but those are the ones I watched.

[@GG1Productions]

You can applaud and admire Magnani's abilities without denigrating the actors who came after her.

[@marilynshively670]

I just happened to change the channel and up popped "The Rose Tatoo"-- I really didn't see the entire movie and in fact missed the last half hour- I was riveted with the performance of Anna Magnani- an amazing actress- I googled and found out she died at 65 of pancreatic cancer and felt so sad: she was so alive, so fiery, such a wonderful actress.

[@andreatalbot2868]

Marilyn Shively That’s exactly how I found this great movie! Classic

[@tcbforever1809]

When I discovered her I felt the same Anna Magnani is enormously talented ,wow . I am also buying all her movies !!! .Even in this scene she is supposed to be messed up she is soooo beautiful .

[@SuperSusieBell]

What a incredible actor. She’s mesmerizing!

[@dobazajr]

Anna is such a brilliant actress. You can't even take your eyes off of her.

[@montyduskin4610]

THIS MOVIE THE ROSE TATTOO !! SHE ACTED HER BUTT OFF !! SHE MORE THAN DESERVED HER OSCAR FOR BEST ACTRESS !! I STILL WATCH EVERY 3 WEEKS !!

[@windstorm1000]

Anna, Romy Schneider and Ingrid bergman---three greatest cinema actresses of all time. NATURAL--NO ARTIFACE.

[@apolinary29]

romy schneider? meh.

[@vnach299]

Bergman was the really best, and after her Bette Davis.

[@randywhite3947]

@@apolinary29 why?

[@thebuddyholly]

Add Katharine Hepburn

[@garymazzeo3490]

Anna and Bette Davis became good friends after Bette saw this film. Both actresses had admired each other for many years.

[@sylviehuard8935]

One of the greatest actress of all time!

[@Leo-Lady]

Anna Magnani was the best in this movie. She was an incredible actress.

[@bb9975]

Anna Magnani se potessi vedere le attricette di oggi..... Piu ti guardo e piu ho I brividi. Empatia carisma fuoco

[@cathypeacher2114]

WOW what a performance. She was so believable.

[@outinsider]

Anna Magnani made that movie was it was, an amazing classic always to be remembered.

[@oscarlover100]

An amazing performance! What's even more amazing is that not only does she not let the material and her co-star drag her down, she actually makes the script work. brilliant!

[@eastendersfreak91]

An amazing performance! It is such a shame that Hollywood let this actress go by. Definitely in my top 5 Best Actress Oscar-winning performances!

[@vnach299]

Who are the others?

[@michaelverbakel7632]

It is just my personal opinion but I rank Anna Magnani in the Rose Tattoo as my No.#2 pick for the all time best actress Oscar win of all time just behind 1952 best actress winner Shirley Booth in Come Back, Little Sheba and before my #3 pick Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire. Note how all three are from the 1950's. By far Oscar's best decade for the leading ladies, sorry Meryl Streep.

[@andreatalbot2868]

This is an awesome classic

[@yolo22]

i saw this wonderful movie such a long time ago, and it has always stood out in my memory.

[@ValentinoAlmeida-sh5pl]

She' s a great actress. RIP.

[@Heathenlegions]

MAGNANI IS THE TRUE GODDESS

[@irinadeguzman8772]

This wonderful play tennis you Williams wrote for Anna Magnani.. And hr was right, it’s difficult. Imagine anybody that her in this role.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Elfulus5]

She can act so well in english too, she just amaze me every time...i defenetely love her...

[@eamonndeane587]

Without a Doubt one of the Finest performances to ever win a Best Actress Academy Award. Anna Magnani was a remarkable Talent...

[@davedvlaries7764]

As with Shirley Booth in 1952, because Magnani wasn't a known U.S. box office draw in 1955, Burt Lancaster gallantly signed on to what were essentially 'women's pictures' because the actress was simply so gifted he was happy to help fill seats.

[@leonardwilsonsr8198]

Magnani did not need anyone to fill seats.

[@steelers6titles]

Ah, that was Come Back, Little Sheba, by Tennessee Williams' friend William Inge. Burt struggles with alcoholism. Another moving drama.

[@JavierValverde-dw7cy]

​@@leonardwilsonsr8198The studio, Paramount, needed Lancaster so people would see Magnani. Most American audiences weren't sophosticated in the 1950s to have seen Magnani alone on a marquee. That would've happened only in Europe back then.

[@dolcevitausa]

love this movie...Magnani was brilliant in this role

[@markgr73]

Magnificent...A.M. was one of the greats!

[@windstorm1000]

My acting coach knew what was going on the set--she said that the scene when Anna's charater is told her husband is dead was shattering--instead of yelling and screaming AM gave greater weight to the scene by her eyes and saying "no, no!

[@windstorm1000]

my coach said that Anna and Vanessa Regraves greatest actors of the 20th century...

[@RetroJenny]

@MrTracythomas1 I think Anna has true beauty that comes from within. She's not your typical pretty barbie doll actress, but she is beautiful in her own way.

[@heikebohne8864]

Anna and Burt, tremendous couple. Tremendous Film. 👩🏻🧑🏼👒🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@steelers6titles]

Her third and final American film was Wild Is The Wind, for George Cukor, opposite Anthony Quinn. She sings a Neapolitan song.

[@antonmarino6568]

MAGNANI. the best of the best

[@pricepi1]

I will always love Anna.

[@lizzyvance]

She is such amaizng actress and one of my favorites. Are any of her movies on you tube?

[@PurpleFlame3]

I'd love to be Italian so that I could shout at everybody!

[@JESUSISLORDforevermore888]

Laure Hahahahahahaha, Laure.

[@rerite2]

I know it's just a movie based on a play but the moment when the priest abandons her reminds me of a line from a poem by Sir Walter Ralegh called, "The Lie". The line goes like this: "The church shows what's good, but does no good."

[@peppy89]

@eastendersfreak91 it is not really hollywood's fault, she just couldn't stay away from her beloved rome :)

[@verbaud]

Anna Magnani is the goddess worshipped by ancient Greeks & Romans, real, earthy, painful, guilty, shameful, beautiful, & sexual. Woman.

[@anna9092]

La magnifica Magnani!!!

[@MsIthinkthereforeIam]

@MrTracythomas1 I see what you mean...but personally I find her quite beautiful, not pretty, but beauti-ful in a beautiful way. I think her intelligence, strength and emotional depth, make her stand out anyway.

[@MsIthinkthereforeIam]

@ScarlettOBeara totally agree with you! totalmente d'accordo con te! And you know, she was a great person in real life too, she brought up her son Luca all by herself (her boyfriend at the time, a quite famous Italian actor, left her when she told him she was pregnant), and she battled to give Luca her surname. It was really difficult at that time to be a single mother in Italy...also, an independent- woman like her was seen as a threat, a de-stabilising figure for post-war patriarchal society.

[@jonathankieranwriter]

Of all Italian actresses, only Giulietta Masina can match Magnani in artistry, and they were completely different. Magnani was a force of nature, a mighty tempest. Masina was also a force of nature, but a secret fountain of spring-water alone in a bleak wilderness.

[@mickeyh1961]

this was possibly the best era in the history of American film, right up to the 1960's film makers today have so much to learn in making a class film and stop producing the rubbish that goes for art today, Lancaster and Magnani what a team!

[@cintom6375]

Annarella nostra... La mejo attrice de Roma... 👍👍😁

[@MrTracythomas1]

what is it about her. she is not beautiful but you can't stop looking at her.

[@iamtenderhearted5192]

Tracy Thomas Oh I think she is STUNNINGLY beautiful 🥰🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 Her face has so much emotion😢❤️ It’s a matter of opinion. We can agree to disagree. I do see that this comment is 9 years old. Have a lovely day and evening.🌹

[@eamonndeane587]

@@iamtenderhearted5192 Anna has a Uniquely Mature and Rustic Beauty that makes her Stand out.

[@thebuddyholly]

I think she is really beautiful

[@jimmyl324]

Great actress

[@Bexxxtuff]

The Bridges of Madison County was very similar with this movie, and Meryl Streep was like Anna Magnani. That film was probabaly based on this...

[@steelers6titles]

Serafina doesn't even look at Alvaro; she's too upset.

[@jadaparks2564]

One of my favorite movies. Do they have the FULL MOVIE?

[@segunsaba7646]

I have never seen this movie in full. Same as Butterfield 8

[@7550375503]

OMG! OMG! OMG!

[@Rezanurbey]

100. Yorum benden. İtalyan kadını deyince aklıma gelen ilk kadın 🌹

[@juancarlosdistefano3703]

Una película Magistral!

[@okomojelepo]

The Actress

[@n10dkf]

The priest gaslighting Seraphina and trying to shame her for knowing truth and having real feelings. So terrifying that he parades himself around the community as some kind of moral spiritual leader.

[@judekelly8324]

Please where I can get the full movie please??

[@steelers6titles]

You can buy or rent it right here on KZbin.

[@montyduskin4610]

HOW HIGH IS THE HIGH SCHOOL !! 🎉

[@toncuz8291]

What does sexual attraction have to do with beauty?

[@bboomer1948]

Plenty. It goes hand in hand.

[@glenknapke6771]

Fellowship

[@yellolab09]

Wow

[@Vasileva.K]

Где начало фильма

[@turchinimanuela1881]

Errata corrige...e dopo anna??se stamo zitti!!!!❤❤❤❤😂😢😂❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@brittoverbaugh4035]

6:00

[@marinakaye8284]

Makes me uncomfortable. Afraid I'm gonna end up like that, a laughing stock to all the local respectable women. My heritage is Greek and I tend to let the melodrama of my life run away with me!! It's a worry.

[@albadeffa5398]

Sarebbe bello vederlo in italiano in e competo

[@steelers6titles]

She's even better opposite Marlon Brando in The Fugitive Kind, also by Williams.

[@GaySingleMulatto]

This is why I am vegan!

[@glenknapke6771]

1 expunged

[@catherinemalian9558]

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[@AnJiE8512128]

It's hard to believe the overacting of Burt Lancaster in this movie. I'll have to read the book/script. The actress was wonderful. I loved her.

[@maureenoneill2847]

Say by patina father calls me Tina incline

[@glenknapke6771]

Prison reform

[@glenknapke6771]

Never did real time

[@Karthagener]

Attrice dannata Donna...E poi viene Monica...

[@glenknapke6771]

Probation

[@larryaniel2572]

Redbox rip off 8 Mile

[@kool-aidcorncrap7880]

Burt Lancaster destroyed this movie is acting was absolutely terrible lol cringe-worthy at best... Marlon Brando should have had the lead role not that mick Burt Lancaster