"You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Sophia Loren walking. Bare-legged and pregnant on the stony streets of Naples in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow or walking through the war-ravaged Italian countryside while balancing a suitcase on her head in Two Women. “It’s like watching all of Italy walking—there’s the Tower of Pisa, here’s the Pitti Palace, there’s the Uffizi … the gondolas of Venice,” Roberto Benigni rhapsodized for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tribute to Loren."
Above is a short BIO of Sophia by Peter Graves and many celebrity commentaries
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Simply beautiful.
Simply beautiful.
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Above are SOME of the larger sized Sophia Pix available
(There are many others downloadable from the Box further down the page.)
Simply beautiful.
Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) is an epic tale of beauty and love. Carlo Ponti was 37 years old, very rich and married with two kids in 1950 when they asked him to be a judge in that beauty contest. Sofia was just 16 when she walked out on the stage in high heels and a bathing suit. They would be together for the next 57 years until Carlo passed away in 2007 at 94.
(Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt)
The picture above is of Sophia and Carlo having breakfast at one of their homes sitting just above the pool area. Here's a couple of more below with the bath house in the background..
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I love those Eisenstaedt photos! Times were quite different then. I remember reading the headlines at the time of their marriage. They were both almost arrested and sent to jail for consummating this "forbidden love". They both risked a great deal.
Remember this is Italy! It had nothing to do with their age difference. It was because they were Catholic.
Carlo had obtained a quickie Mexican divorce from his then wife Giuliana Fiastri whom he had married in 1946. The Catholic Church refused to recognize such a divorce and therefore considered Carlo a bigamist and Sophia his consort living in sin. (which was against the law in Italy)
The Gorgeous Sophia !!
The Italians were very proud of their "Sofia" but she was also considered a "home wrecker" and the Paparazzi & tabloid newspapers and magazines were all over her !
Sofia the Homewrecker!
Sofia the Homewrecker!
They dug up every embarrassing photo she had ever taken and printed them all over the country. When they returned to Italy they stayed far away from each other in public so as not to get arrested. Carlo had been legally charged with 'Bigamy' in 1957 due to the influence of the Catholic Church. They lived under phony names while Carlo had their marriage quietly annulled. What a scandal!
Scene from Arabesque (1966) with Gregory Peck and Sophia.
"BOY ON A DOLPHIN" was my first encounter with Sophia and it was shocking by American standards for a 15yr testosterone laden adolescent boy! WOW SHE WAS HOT! I immediately wanted to hitch-hike to Italy and meet a voluptuous Italian goddess and become a local fisherman.
Sofia was Gorgeous!
It was this powerful movie just above in which I saw Sophia Loren for the second time. She was phenomenal! If you haven't seen Victorio De Sica's "TWO WOMEN", I highly recommend it!
Carlo finally came to an agreement with his wife with respect to divorce but in Italy of course it would never be sanctioned so he and his entire family (including Miss Sophia) moved to France so they could be legally divorced. The Tabloids were relentless in their pursuit of the Italian Goddess. Here's a sample...
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Of course how they really lived 'at home' was quite different than it appeared in the tabloids...
HERE are a few of my favorite Sophia Pix. You may download any/all directly out of this album and some are quite large....
All Sophia Pix Are HERE
I hope you enjoyed the Sophia Loren Blog and here's some last Pics of the beautiful Sophia..
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