Anna (1951 film)

Anna is a 1951 Italian melodrama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who becomes a nun; Raf Vallone as Andrea, the rich man who loves her; and Vittorio Gassman as Vittorio, the wicked waiter who sets Anna on a dangerous path.

Anna
Directed by	Alberto Lattuada
Produced by	Dino De Laurentiis Carlo Ponti
Written by	Giuseppe Berto Franco Brusati Ivo Perilli Dino Risi Rodolfo Sonego
Starring	Silvana Mangano Raf Vallone Vittorio Gassman Gaby Morlay Patrizia Mangano
Music by	Nino Rota
Cinematography	Otello Martelli
Edited by	Gabriele Varriale
Distributed by	Lux Film
Release date	20 December 1951
Running time	107 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Silvana Mangano's real sister, Patrizia Mangano, acts as Anna's sister in the film. Sophia Loren has a small uncredited role as a nightclub assistant. Future film directors Franco Brusati and Dino Risi cowrote the script.

The film features the songs "Non Dimenticar" and "El Negro Zumbón", a baião popularised in the US as "Anna" and recorded much later by Pink Martini.

Plot

A man (Vallone) suffers a car accident. He's taken to hospital, where Sister Anna (Mangano) takes care of him. The man is the reason Anna became a nun. She remembers the days she was leading a life of sin as a night club singer.

Reception

Anna is one of the greatest box office successes of Italian cinema. "El Negro Zumbón" became a classic in Italy and Spain. Nanni Moretti paid a tribute in Dear Diary, in which the song is shown on a TV, and the opening of the song is featured in Cinema Paradiso.

Dubbed voices

In the original Italian version, the voices of many actors in the film are dubbed:

• Silvana Mangano: Lydia Simoneschi, who also dubbed her in Bitter Rice, Outlaw Girl, Mambo and Ulysses; Simoneschi is also known for having dubbed Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman, Jennifer Jones, and Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind.
• Vittorio Gassman: Gualtiero De Angelis, the official Italian voice for James Stewart, Dean Martin and Cary Grant
• Raf Vallone: Mario Pisu, best known for having dubbed all of Fred MacMurray's Disney films (except for The Shaggy Dog)
• Gaby Morlay: Tina Lattanzi, the official Italian voice for Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford and Disney villains (until 1959)
• Tina Lattanzi appears in the film as Andrea's mother, and she is dubbed by Giovanna Scotto.
• Other voices heard in this film are: Emilio Cigoli (who also dubbed for Gregory Peck, John Wayne and Clark Gable); Giuseppe Rinaldi (who also dubbed for Rock Hudson, Jack Lemmon and Paul Newman); Rosetta Calavetta (who also dubbed for Marilyn Monroe after approximately 1954, Doris Day and Lana Turner); and Miranda Bonansea (who also dubbed for Marilyn Monroe until approximately 1954, Shirley Temple and June Allyson).

External links

• Anna at IMDb