Anna Magnani Articles

Ben Gazzara, who was featured on Broadway in the original Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and in movies by the likes of John Cassavetes, Otto Preminger, and Peter Bogdanovich, died earlier today at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital Center as per the New York Times. Gazzara, who had been suffering from pancreatic cancer, was 81. Although Gazzara (the son of Italian immigrants, born Aug. 28, 1930, [...]

Lamberto Maggiorani in Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thieves (aka The Bicycle Thief) Suso Cecchi d'Amico, the only top female screenwriter in the post-war Italian cinema, died today in Rome. She had turned 96 on July 14. According to reports, no cause of death was given. Chiefly among Cecchi D'Amico's screenwriting contributions — nearly 120 of them — are those for Vittorio de Sica's Oscar-winning neo-realist [...]

The guilty pleasure of all guilty pleasures. An unabashedly sentimental story about East meets West, a bland performance by leading man William Holden (Sunset Boulevard, Network), an awful (and awfully long) title. That's 20th Century Fox's Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing. Yet, the film does offer gorgeous locations (Hong Kong and surrounding areas), superb color cinematography (Leon Shamroy), a rousing, romantic score (Alfred Newman), several [...]

Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire FILM Ace in the Hole / The Big Carnival d: Billy Wilder; scr: Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman The African Queen d: John Huston; scr: James Agee L’Auberge rouge / The Red Inn d: Claude Autant-Lara; scr: Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost The Day the Earth Stood Still d: Robert Wise; scr: Edmund H. North The [...]