Laura La Plante

. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6381 Hollywood Blvd. She died in Woodland Hills, California from Alzheimer's Disease. Her single marriage, to director Goffredo Alessandrini, did not last long. She was the sister of actress Violet La Plante. Magnani had celebrated love affairs, with director Roberto Rossellini and with actor Massimo Serato, with whom she had a son, who was stricken with polio. She appeared in only a handful of films with the advent of talking pictures, and retired in 1957. She also starred in The Secret of Santa Vittoria.

During the 1920s she appeared in more than sixty films, and achieved her greatest success in the 1929 film Show Boat. In 1957, she was nominated for Best Actress for Wild is the Wind. Louis, Missouri, La Plante made her acting debut at the age of 15, and in 1923 was named as one of the years WAMPAS Baby Stars. In 1955 she went to Hollywood, and starred in the film version of Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Born Laura La Plant in St. She attended the Academy of Dramatic Art in Rome, paying her way by working at nightclubs and cabarets. She had a small part in a silent film, Scampolo, in 1928, but did not become well-known until the 1940s, starring in Vittori DiSica's Teresa Venerdì and in Roma, città aperta (Open City). Laura La Plante (November 1, 1904 - October 14, 1996) was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success in silent movies. When she was abandoned by her mother at an early age, Anna was raised by her maternal grandmother.

Born in Rome (although some biographies say Egypt), she was born illegitimate, and never knew who her father was. Anna Magnani (March 7, 1908 - September 26, 1973) was an Italian actress.