Other Titles • Anastasia (1956) • Die Große Liebe der Anastasia (1957)
Trivia from Anastasia (1956)
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ANASTASIA was adapted from the play by Marcelle Maurette.
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Ingrid Bergman won the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Anna.
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There was, in fact, a woman named Anna Anderson, a former mental patient who, for over 60 years, claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov. While there was circumstantial evidence to support her claims, which many supported, DNA testing in the mid-1990s matched her DNA against that of her would-be cousin, the British Prince of Wales, and proved she was indeed a fake.
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ANASTASIA marked the return of Bergman after her six year absence from Hollywood, where she was shunned over her scandalous affair with director Roberto Rossellini, with whom she had a daughter, the actress Isabella Rossellini.
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Natalie Schafer, who plays the exiled Russian aristocrat Lissenskaia, is best known for her role as Mrs. Howell on TV's GILLIGAN'S ISLAND, but she also starred in another Litvak film, THE SNAKE PIT, as Olivia de Havilland's mother.
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The film was remade in 1997 as a Fox's first animated feature.
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