7 interesting facts about the magnificent Sophia Loren

Amazing Sophia Loren is now 81 years old, so what? She became the face of Dolce & Gabbana! Beauty, grace, elegance, Sophie and still allow it to remain in the world of high mody.Sayt decided to recall some interesting facts from the biography of Sophie, and simultaneously publish it not too well-known photos.

1. Sofia Villani Shikolone was born September 20, 1934 in Rome. However, the childhood and youth of the future actress went in a small fishing town of Pozzuoli near Naples. For high growth and leanness of her already in his childhood nickname "Stekketto", which means "perch».



2. At 14 Sophie first participated in a local beauty contest and won. But after two years at the contest "Miss Italy", she received the prize of "Miss Elegance", which the jury has set up specially for it.



3. During their participation in the next contest, Sophie met producer and her future husband Carlo Ponti, who was older than her 22 years. Ponti was married at the time, and for a Catholic to get a divorce case was very difficult. Then the lovers decided to secretly married in Mexico. And after Ponty still got a divorce, Carlo and Sophie married again.





4. actress initially acted under the pseudonym of Sophie Lazarro, and it was mostly pictures erg matic content. In 1953, at the insistence of the actress she changed her alias Ponty Lauren (in association with the name of the then popular Swedish actress Marta Toren). A little later Ponti bought all eras * cal movies young Lauren avoid an international scandal.

5. Warning of serious critics Lauren first attracted to the film by Vittorio De Sica "The Gold of Naples" (1954), in which she got in their native element, playing a spirited Neapolitan shopkeeper. Roles ordinary women of the people, whom she knew as a child, and one of them could be, did manage her best and caused the most favorable reviews from critics.







6. By the mid-1950s became the star of Sofia and behold * a symbol of Italy. During his 60-year career, Sophie appeared in almost 100 films, and her team-mates on the set were such legends as Jean-Paul Belmondo, Gregory Peck, Cary Grant, Marlon Brando, Charlie Chaplin, Frank Sinatra and, of course, Marcello Mastroianni, with whom they played together in fourteen films and made one of the most famous duos in the history of cinema.







7. Lauren - winner of the honorary prizes for all major film festivals: Cannes (1961), Venice (1958, 1998, 2002), Moscow (1965, 1997), Berlin (1994). The winner of the best actress prize at the International Film Festival of San Sebastian (1974). Winner of five awards "Golden Globe" (in the special nomination "the favorite of the world public"). The first winner of the "Oscar" for best actress in a movie in a foreign language (1962). The holder of an honorary "Oscar" (1991) with the words "in his career, rich in memorable roles, giving netuskneyuschy shine cinema».













Archbishop of Genoa once joked that although the Vatican disapproves human cloning, he could make an exception for Sophia Loren.

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