She soon became established as a star, although she lacked the conventional beauty and glamour often associated with the term. Slightly plump and rather short in stature with a face framed by unkempt raven hair and eyes encircled by deep, dark shadows, she smouldered with seething earthiness and volcanic temperament.
Magnani once said: "Women like me can only submit to men capable of dominating them, and I have never found anyone capable of dominating me."
De Sica had called her laugh, "loud, overwhelming, and tragic".
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Wikipedia tells me she was also in 'Rome Open City!' I'd like to see that again (been forever), as well as this early Pasolini that I haven't before. I love the street lamps behind her over wrought/beautiful mouth.
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