The Rose Tattoo
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| The Rose Tattoo | |
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| Directed by | Daniel Mann |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis |
| Written by | Tennessee Williams (play) Hal Kanter |
| Starring | Anna Magnani Burt Lancaster |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 12, 1955 (USA premiere)) |
| Running time | 117 min. |
| Language | English Italian |
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The Rose Tattoo is a Tennessee Williams play. It opened on Broadway in February 1951, and a film adaptation was released in 1955. It tells the story of an Italian-American widow in Louisiana who has allowed herself to withdraw from the world after her husband's death, and expects her daughter to do the same. The film adaptation stars Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan and Jo Van Fleet.
The movie was adapted by Williams and Hal Kanter and directed by Daniel Mann.
[edit] Awards
It won Academy Awards for:
- Best Actress in a Leading Role - Anna Magnani
- Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White - Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Sam Comer, Arthur Krams
- Best Cinematography, Black-and-White - James Wong Howe
It was nominated for:
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Marisa Pavan
- Best Costume Design, Black-and-White - Edith Head
- Best Film Editing - Warren Low
- Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture - Alex North
- Best Picture - Hal B. Wallis
| The Plays of Tennessee Williams |
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| Adam and Eve on a Ferry, And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens, At Liberty, Auto Da Fé, Baby Doll (screenplay), Battle of Angels, Beauty Is the Word, Camino Real, Cairo! Shanghai! Bombay!, Candles to the Sun, The Case of the Crushed Petunias, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Chalky White Substance, Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Creve Coeur, The Dark Room, Demolition Downtown, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, The Fat Man's Wife, The Frosted Glass Coffin, Fugitive Kind, Garden District, The Gentleman Callers (screenplay), The Glass Menagerie, Grand, Hello from Bertha, A House Not Meant to Stand, I Can't Imagine Tomorrow, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix, Kingdom of Earth / Seven Descents of Myrtle, Kirche, Küche und Kinder (play), The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, The Last of My Solid Gold Watches, Lifeboat Drill, The Long Goodbye, Lord Byron's Love Letter (libretto), The Magic Tower, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Moony's Kid Don't Cry, The Mutilated, The Night of the Iguana, Not about Nightingales, The Notebook of Trigorin, Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws, The One Exception, Orpheus Descending, Out Cry, The Palooka, A Perfect Anaysis Given by a Parrot, Period of Adjustment, The Pink Room, Portait of a Madonna, The Purification, The Red Devil Battery Sign, The Rose Tattoo, Something Unspoken, Slapstick Tragedy (The Mutilated and The Gnädiges Fräulein), Something Cloudy, Something Clear, Spring Storm, Stairs to the Roof, Steps Must be Gentle, A Streetcar Named Desire, Suddenly, Last Summer, Summer and Smoke, Summer at the Lake, Small Craft Warnings, Sweet Bird of Youth, Tiger Tail, This Is (An Entertainment), This is Peaceable Kingdom/Good Luck God, This Property is Condemned, Three Players of a Summer Game, Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton, The Two-Character Play, Vieux Carré, Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis?, You Touched Me |
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