The Rose Tattoo (film)

The Rose Tattoo is a 1955 American film directed by Daniel Mann. Starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster in the lead roles. Based on the play of the same name by Tennessee Williams.

Plot

A town in Louisiana, home to Italian Americans, is upended when police kill a trucker while smuggling. Her widow Serafina Delle Rose (Anna Magnani ) is deeply grieved, and as time goes by she becomes more and more isolated in herself. She wants her teenage daughter Rosa (Marisa Pavan) to do the same, but she ends up leaving to live with her boyfriend, Jack Hunter (Ben Cooper ). It is then that a handsome man, Álvaro Mangiacavallo (Burt Lancaster), also a truck driver, enters Serafina's life.

Cast

• Anna Magnani - Serafina Delle Rose
• Burt Lancaster - Alvaro Mangiacavallo
• Marisa Pavan - Rosa Delle Rose
• Ben Cooper... Jack Hunter
• Virginia Grey - Estelle Hohengarten
• Jo Van Fleet - Bessie
• Sandro Giglio - Father de Leo
• Mimi Aguglia - Assunta
• Florence Sundstrom - Flora

Awards

• Prize Oscar 1956: to the best main actress (Anna Magnani)
• Prize Oscar 1956: to the best direction of art (Hal Pereira)
• Prize Oscar 1956: to the best photograph (James Wong Howe)
• BAFTA 1957 Award: Best Foreign Actress (Anna Magnani)
• Golden Globe Award 1956: Best Film Actress – Drama (Anna Magnani)
• Golden Globe Award 1956: to the best secondary actress (Marisa Pavan)
• NYFCC 1955 Award: Best Actress (Anna Magnani)
• National Board of Review 1955: Best Actress (Anna Magnani)

Comments

Italian actress Anna Magnani won an Oscar, an unusual milestone, since until recently such an award used to fall almost always on American and British actors.