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The Rose Tattoo is a 1955 American film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play of the same name. It was adapted by Williams and Hal Kanter and directed by Daniel Mann, with stars Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan and Jo Van Fleet.
The Rose Tattoo tells the story of an Italian-American widow in Mississippi who has withdrawn from the world after her husband's death and expects her daughter to do the same. The setting is a place in proximity to Biloxi.
The Rose Tattoo: Directed by Daniel Mann. With Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan, Ben Cooper. A Sicilian seamstress who idolizes her husband must deal with several family crises upon his sudden death.
In a small Sicilian-American community along the Gulf Coast, Serafina delle Rose is a fiery and passionate wife and mother. When her husband Rosario is murdered while smuggling contraband in a banana truck, Serafina shuts herself away from life and love.
Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. Based on a play by Tennessee Williams, this classic drama centers on Serafina (Anna Magnani), a widowed Sicilian woman living in the American South who is left ...
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The Rose Tattoo sets up a particular opposition of life and death in the opposition of Serafina and Estelle. This duality associates chaos and excess with life and order and restraint with death. Serafina evokes a chaotic, burgeoning life force in many ways.
A Sicilian seamstress who idolizes her husband must deal with several family crises upon his sudden death. An Italian-American neighborhood in Louisiana is disturbed when truck driver Rosario Delle Rose is killed by police while smuggling.
