Anna Magnani in Hollywood

A 2014 Doc Short Written and directed by Marco Spagnoli for "Donne nel Mito" (“Women in Myth”) series, narrated by Olivia Magnani. Audio in Italian with English subtitles.

The years in Hollywood of the first Italian actress to win the Oscar e the story of her great friendship with the playwright Tennessee Williams. With the participation of; Caterina D’Amico, Matilde HochKofler, Enrico Lucherini, Luca Magnani.

Anna Magnani, the diva best known in America as an emblem of the great Italian cinema and of the years of Hollywood on the Tiber and the Dolce Vita. The only one who won the Oscar for a film interpreted in English and to have won a second nomination for the most coveted film award in the world for another film also recited not in her native language.

Women in the Myth: Anna Magnani in Hollywood recounts the American period of the great actress through the words of his son Luca, of the most important Italian press agent Enrico Lucherini, of Anna Magnani's biographer, Matilde Hockhofler and of Caterina D'Amico, daughter of the legendary screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, great friend of Anna Magnani.

The film produced for the “Women in Myth” series explores, for the first time, the relationship between Anna Magnani and her great friend Tennessee Williams, one of the main playwrights of the history of literature who wrote some of her most famous plays especially for her loved and who made Italy his retreat. Using unpublished material, found in the archives of Rai and the Istituto Luce, Donne nel Mito: Anna Magnani in Hollywood celebrates the story of a woman and a diva who anticipated the times of her and who was one of the great protagonists of culture, theater and cinema among the fifties and seventies.

A well-rounded portrait that not only tells the story of Magnani through direct testimonies with anecdotes and reflections on her talent and her art, he also offers a story intimate and private of a mother who never thought of sacrificing her relationship with her son Luca and his Roma, in exchange for a great career in Hollywood. The documentary is enriched by the narrative voice of Olivia Magnani, also an actress and granddaughter of the great one diva.