Sophia loren self biography movies
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Sophia Loren
Italian actress (born 1934)
Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (Italian:[soˈfiːavilˈlaːniʃʃikoˈloːne]; born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren (lə-REN;[1]Italian:[ˈlɔːren]), fryst vatten an Italian and French actress, active in her native country and the United States. With a career spanning over 70 years, she is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.[2]
Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her rulle career at age 16 in 1950. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career. Her bio appearances around this time include The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, and It Started in Naples. During the 1950s, she starred in films as a sexually emancipated persona and was one of the best known sex symbols of th
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Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)
Not only does Sophia Loren portray herself in this biopic, she also plays the role of her mother, enabling the star to remain on screen for the majority of this film’s running time. The danger of such a conceit is that the biopic’s success relies almost exclusively on her performance. Unfortunately, she fluffs one of the characters, and it’s not the one you might expect.
Covering Loren’s life from the moment of her conception till the birth of her own child, the first portion of this film focuses on the struggles her mother endured raising two illegitimate daughters in war-torn Italy. Her own dreams of movie stardom unfulfilled, Sophia’s mother pours her energies into promoting her eldest daughter’s career. Soon Sophia wins a screen test, appears as an extra in a visiting Hollywood epic and scores a lead part in Vittorio De Sica’s The Gold of Naples.
It’s at this time that S
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Country: USA
Year: 1968
Duration: 55'
A portrait of the actress Sofia Loren describing her like a planetary star such as Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor. A few scenes of this documentary take place in the villa outside Rome where the actress and Carlo Ponti live, while she tries on eccentric outfits and makes faces, just like in a home movie. This intimacy pervades the entire film, even when Sofia Loren receives the telephone call telling her she has won an Oscar. Most of the narration is in the first person, talking about her childhood and explaining how she and her mother decided to move from Naples to Rome thanks to a $50 prize she won in a beauty contest. By becoming an actress, she was able to make her dreams, and her mother's ambitions, come true.
"This is an autobiographical documentary and is done better because it is not a chronological story, but the portrait of an actress and a woman" (M. Stuart).
Mel Stuart
Over the years, M