What is The Rose Tattoo?

The Rose Tattoo
original film poster
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
IMDb profile

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.

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

•  • [ e] Plays by Tennessee Williams
Apprentice plays	Candles to the Sun (1936) • Spring Storm (1937) • Fugitive Kind (1937) • Not about Nightingales (1938) • Battle of Angels (1940) • You Touched Me (1945) • Stairs to the Roof (1947)
Major plays	The Glass Menagerie (1944) • A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) • Summer and Smoke (1948) • The Rose Tattoo (1951) • Camino Real (1953) • Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1955) • Orpheus Descending (1957) • Suddenly, Last Summer (1958) • Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) • Period of Adjustment (1960) • The Night of the Iguana (1961)
Later plays	The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963) • The Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968) • In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (1969) • Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis? (1969) • Small Craft Warnings (1972) • The Two-Character Play (1973) • The Red Devil Battery Sign (1975) • This Is (An Entertainment) (1976) • Vieux Carr (1977) • Creve Coeur (1979) • Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980) • The Notebook of Trigorin (1980) • Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981) • A House Not Meant to Stand (1982)
Other	One act plays by Tennessee Williams