Anna Magnani

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6381 Hollywood Blvd. In 1971 she wrote her autobiography, I Was a Greek. Her single marriage, to director Goffredo Alessandrini, did not last long. When democracy returned to her home country, she returned, and became first a member of the Parliament for PASOK, and then Minister of Culture. 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. Pattakos was born a dictator and he will die as a dictator.". She also starred in The Secret of Santa Vittoria. Mr.

In 1957, she was nominated for Best Actress for Wild is the Wind. When the dictatorship revoked her Greek citizenship, she said, "I was born Greek and I would die Greek. 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. During the period of dictatorship in Greece from 1967 to 1974, Mercouri lived in France. 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). Nominated for an Academy Award for Never on Sunday, she went on to star in such films as Topkapi, Phaedra, and Gaily, Gaily. When she was abandoned by her mother at an early age, Anna was raised by her maternal grandmother. In fact, she had been making movies since 1955, first appearing in the Greek language film Stella.

Born in Rome (although some biographies say Egypt), she was born illegitimate, and never knew who her father was. Born Anna Amalia Mercouri or Maria Amalia Mercouris, she became well-known to international audiences when she starred in the 1960 film Never on Sunday, directed by her husband Jules Dassin. Anna Magnani (March 7, 1908 - September 26, 1973) was an Italian actress. Melina Mercouri (Μελίνα Μερκούρη; Athens,October 18, 1920 - New York, March 6, 1994) was a Greek actress and political activist.