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motion pictures
motion pictures movie-making as an art and an industry, including its production techniques, its creative artists, and the distribution and exhibition of its products (see also motion picture photography ; Motion Picture Cameras under camera ). Origins Experiments in photographing mov... Read more
Anna
Anna , [Gr.,=Heb. Hannah ], in the Bible. 1 Aged prophetess who hailed Jesus' presentation at the Temple. 2 In the Book of Tobit, the mother of young Tobias. ... Read more
Annas
Annas [Gr.,=Heb. Hananiah ], in the New Testament, Jewish high priest who examined Jesus. Nonbiblical sources say that he was retired high priest. His son-in-law was Caiaphas. ... Read more
Hannah
Hannah in the Bible, Samuel's mother. Her song is recalled in the Magnificat . The names Anna and Ann are variants of Hannah. ... Read more
Anna
Anna (Anna Ivanovna) , 1693-1740, czarina of Russia (1730-40), daughter of Ivan V and niece of Peter I (Peter the Great). On the death of her distant cousin, Peter II , she was chosen czarina by the supreme privy council, which thus hoped to gain power for itself. Anna signed articles limitin... Read more
Anna Letitia (Aikin) Barbauld
Anna Letitia (Aikin) Barbauld , 1743-1825, English poet and editor. In 1774 she married Rochemont Barbauld and with him opened a boarding school. Her Hymns in Prose for children, widely read and translated into several languages, was followed by Early Lessons (both 1781). She edited works of Col... Read more
Anna Katherine Green
Anna Katherine Green 1846-1935, American detective-story writer, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. Ripley Female College, Poultney, Vt., 1867. Of her many thrillers, characterized by logical construction and a knowledge of criminal law, The Leavenworth Case (1878) is the best known. ... Read more
Anna Brownell (Murphy) Jameson
Anna Brownell (Murphy) Jameson , 1794-1860, English essayist, b. Dublin. The diary of her travels on the Continent as governess to a wealthy family was later published as The Diary of an Ennuyée (1826). Jameson's works—especially Shakespeare's Heroines (1932)—were popular in h... Read more
Anna Seward
Anna Seward , 1742-1809, English poet, called the Swan of Lichfield. A member of the Lichfield literary group, which included Thomas Day and Erasmus Darwin, she was acquainted also with Dr. Johnson and James Boswell. She bequeathed her literary works to Sir Walter Scott, who edited them (3 vol., 181... Read more
Anna Comnena
Anna Comnena , b. 1083, d. after 1148, Byzantine princess and historian; daughter of Emperor Alexius I. She plotted, during and after her father's reign, against her brother, John II , in favor of her husband, Nicephorus Bryennius, whom she wished to rule as emperor. Having failed, she retired to a... Read more

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Magnani, Anna
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Anna Magnani Italian stage and screen actress Anna Magnani (1909 – 1973) gained international fame with her...Oscar in 1955 for her role in The Rose Tattoo . Details of Anna Magnani's early life could have provided plot elements for the... Read more
Rose Tattoo, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...Rosa ( Phyllis Love) and a young sailor, Jack Hunter ( Don Murray). The play had been written with Italian film star Anna Magnani in mind, but she refused to play it on stage, though she eventually made the film version. Many critics were disturbed... Read more
Roberto Rossellini
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...time period were about war. In 1947, he made L'Amore, a film in two contrasting parts starring his then-lover, actress Anna Magnani. The first part was entitled "The Human Voice," a monologue in which a woman tries to maintain a phone conversation... Read more
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...intermittent periods. Although he would never marry, while residing in Rome Thorvaldsen fathered two children with Anna Maria Magnani: a son, Carlo Alberto (1806-1811) and a daughter, Elisa (1813-1846). In his early years in that city, Thorvaldsen... Read more

Dictionary entries related to " Anna Magnani"

Magnani, Anna
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers MAGNANI, Anna Nationality: Italian. Born: Rome, 7 March...Governi, Giancarlo, Nannarella: La vita di Anna Magnani , Milan, 1981. Hochkofler, Matilde, Anna Magnani , Rome, 1984. Carrano, Patrizia, La Magnani... Read more
Le Carrosse D'Or
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...by: Gino Marinuzzi; costumes: Mario de Matteis. Cast: Anna Magnani ( Camilla/Colombine ); Duncan Lamont ( Ferdinand, the...1960. Whitehall, Richard, "Gallery of Great Artists: Anna Magnani," in Films and Filming (London), July 1961. Petrie... Read more
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Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Rossellini; photography: Ubaldo Arata; editor: Eralda da Roma; production designer: R. Megna; music: Renzo Rossellini. Cast: Anna Magnani ( Pina ); Aldo Fabrizi ( Don Pietro Pellegrini ); Marcello Pagliero ( Giorgio Manfredi, alias Luigi Ferraris ); Harry... Read more

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Mamma Roma. (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Tonino Delli, Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti)
Magazine article from: Cineaste; 6/22/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...world of Mamma Roma, played by a superb Anna Magnani in one of her greatest roles. Pasolini selected Magnani for the part of the ex-prostitute who...During work on the set, Pasolini and Magnani constantly quarreled over the style of... Read more
Monica Bellucci: from the country shape like a boot, the actress who's giving risk-taking roles a kick in the pants.(Interview)
Magazine article from: Interview; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; With the beauty of Sophia Loren and the fierceness of Anna Magnani, Monica Bellucci is a celluloid force of nature. But if her natural assets have made her into a fashion muse for designers such... Read more
Francesco Vezzoli: Castello Di Rivoli. (Reviews: Turin).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 4/1/2002; ; 478 words ; ...among them have been Joan Crawford, Audrey Hepburn, Anna Magnani, and Edith Piaf--in such a way that they partially lose...the big screen under the title Amore (1948), starring Anna Magnani. Vezzoli has created two DVD projections that can be... Read more
Divisadero.(literary)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Bookmarks; 9/1/2007; 700+ words ; ...memories resurface with unforeseen consequences. Meanwhile, Anna, now a literary scholar, has tried to completely divorce...his secrets and passions reveal disconcerting parallels to Anna's own life. Knopf. 288 pages. $25. ISBN: 0307266354 [ILLUSTRATION...Ondaatje spends more than half of this novel following ... Read more
TUNISIA: ITALIAN CINEMA WEEK SOON.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 3/10/2009; 58 words ; ...on Italian cinema of the 50's and an exhibit of cinema costumes worn by famous cinema stars such as Ingrid Bergman, Anna Magnani, Audrey Hepburn and Claudia Cardinale, the Tunisian born Italian cinema star. Read more
The Cocteau twins. (theater performances inspired by thw works of Jean Cocteau) (Theater)
Magazine article from: Interview; 12/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...theatrical eavesdropping. Reprising Anna Magnani's movie role onstage is Alba Clemente...that evokes the stark emotion of Magnani's movie boudoir, and Clemente's...debut in the role originated by Magnani's canine co-star, Micia. After a... Read more
Carl Palazzolo at Lennon, Weinberg. (New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 9/1/1998; ; 403 words ; ...the gallery's entry; he uses the shots, which include romantic images of such stars as Monica Vitti, Anita Ekberg and Anna Magnani, as source material for his paintings. Palazzolo's paintings are about both the actual cinema image and its transformation... Read more
The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini.(Review)
Magazine article from: Cineaste; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...provided fodder for angry denunciations in Congress. Lawyers know one of his minor works, The Miracle (1951) starring Anna Magnani and a young Federico Fellini (who wrote the script), because the unsuccessful attempt to censor it on religious grounds... Read more
Continental Confidential! the new Vita of Italian cinema.(Editorial)
Magazine article from: Interview; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...such as Rossellini, Visconti, De Sica, Antonioni, Pasolini, and the Taviani brothers, and their actors--Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina, Franco Citti, Monica Vitti, Silvana Mangano, and Sophia Loren. Without them the movies wouldn't be... Read more
Anjelica. (actress Angelica Huston) (Interview)
Magazine article from: Interview; 10/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...Her power now seems as formidable as her beauty--what a Lady Macbeth she would make, what a Madame Defarge, what an Anna Magnani! G.F. ANJELICA HUSTON: The first time I was in Interview, Berry Berenson photographed me. It was one of the first color... Read more