Rose Tattoo The (1955)
Rose Tattoo The (1955)
A powerful performance by the woman this story was written for Anna Magnani who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in it. It also has Burt Lancaster who plays a rather exuberant character. Nominated for a total of 8 Oscars including Best Picture it won three. Based on the Tennessee Williams play. Magnani plays a woman who smothers her husband so much he has an affair. Then he is killed caught smuggling. So she withdraws herself from the community working as a seamstress. Still ignorant of his affair she brags to anyone who will listen about what a great man he was. She has a late teens daughter (Marisa Pavan) that wants to date but of course no man is good enough for her. Enter a reckless (& over-the-top performance by) Lancaster another truck driver determined to crack her ice & a beau (Ben Cooper) who is truly interested in her daughter. Virginia Grey the woman with whom Magnani’s husband was unfaithful and Jo Van Fleet are also in the cast.