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A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
Liliana Mancini
- Iris
- (as Iris)
Vittorio Musy Glori
- Self
- (as Vittorio Glori)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the final scene, Anna Magnani hears the film playing outside her room and remarks that she hears Burt Lancaster. Magnani would win an Oscar four years later for The Rose Tattoo, in which she would costar with Lancaster.
- ConnectionsEdited into Al Centro del cinema (2015)
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This is a very small story--a poor woman tries to make her daughter a child movie star--but it has a tremendous, operatic performance from Anna Magnani. Magnani is like all other stage mothers in that the success she desires for the child is really her frustrated ambition for herself (her tiny daughter has no interest in acting, and whines and cries all through the picture), but unlike them in that she never loses her sense of humour. When she realises she has been cheated, instead of becoming outraged, she laughs at her own foolishness, briefly relaxing from her usual blind intensity to become a normal, likable woman.
Her character's desperation to escape her life is understandable when one sees the dump she lives in with her husband and child. The small, dilapidated flat with stained walls, in a building full of fat, sour- faced harpies in hideous housedresses--one never sees such horrors in Hollywood films. Too bad this neo-realism became old-style realism--we could use some of this today as a counter to the candy-floss world we see on TV and in the movies.
One amusing note: The film-struck Magnani says at one point to her husband, "Oh, Burt LanCASter! Molto gentile!" Three years later Lancaster would be playing her lover in The Rose Tattoo.
Her character's desperation to escape her life is understandable when one sees the dump she lives in with her husband and child. The small, dilapidated flat with stained walls, in a building full of fat, sour- faced harpies in hideous housedresses--one never sees such horrors in Hollywood films. Too bad this neo-realism became old-style realism--we could use some of this today as a counter to the candy-floss world we see on TV and in the movies.
One amusing note: The film-struck Magnani says at one point to her husband, "Oh, Burt LanCASter! Molto gentile!" Three years later Lancaster would be playing her lover in The Rose Tattoo.
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- Beautiful
- Filming locations
- Ristorante Al Biondo Tevere, Via Ostiense, 178, Roma RM, Italy(Trattoria by the River Tiber)
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- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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