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Sophia Loren: Carlo Ponti
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On Sept 17, 1957, when Sophia Loren was only 23 years old, she married Ponti. But Italy being a Catholic country wouldn't have anything like that going on within its borders, so their marriage was annualled. Ponti was still married to his first wife then.
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Sophia Loren laughs with excitement as the director of her new movie, Between Strangers, yells “Action”. Its her 100th film and the director is none other than her youngest son, Edoardo Ponti.
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Loren most recently completed the feature film Between Strangers, written and directed by her son Edoardo Ponti., marking her 100th film in a long and distinguished career. Considered one of the best-loved and most phenomenal actresses in history, she became the first actor in a foreign film to be honored with a Best Actress Academy Award for Vittorio de Sica's Two Women, in 1962. Altogether, she won 21 awards in the same year for Two Women. As one of the premier leading ladies of film, Loren received an Honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1991; she won an Honorary Golden Berlin Bear in 1994 and a Cecil B. De Mille Golden Globe Award in 1995. In addition, Loren has received acknowledgments from all over the world, from the French Victoires to the German Gold Bear and Bambis, the Italian Donatellos and Silver Ribbon and the Japanese Samurais.
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By the mid-'50s, Loren was a star in Italy as well as a major sex symbol, but with the exception of 1955's Attila Flagello di Dio, co-starring Anthony Quinn, few of her pictures were distributed internationally. That changed with Vittorio de Sica's L'Oro di Napoli, which was recut and dubbed for foreign sale, resulting in poor reviews. Loren... was singled out for the strength of her performance as a Neapolitan shopkeeper, surprising many critics who had dismissed her as merely another bombshell. As a result, 1955's La Donna del Fiume was distributed in both the U.S. and Britain, as were a number of other subsequent projects. Eventually, Loren emerged as an international star, and Ponti soon declared her ready for Hollywood. She moved tentatively into the English-language market with a pair of films shot in Europe, 1957's Boy on a Dolphin (in which she appeared opposite Alan Ladd) and The Pride and the Passion (starring Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant).
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The wife of Italian film producer Carlo Ponti and close friend of the late British actor Cary Grant, Sophia Loren received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994 and a Honorary Academy Award in 1991. Also frequently called the "Italian Marilyn Monroe," Loren, who stands 5' 8 inches tall and possesses the measurements 38C-24-38 (self-described - 1955, and from Edith Head- 1957), 36D-24-37 3/4 (at age 50 - 1985), was listed as one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the world (1991) and made the 10 best-dressed list (September 20, 1999).
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Sophia Loren's 100th film, Between Strangers, released in 2002, was directed by son Edoardo Ponti. Her other son, Carlo Ponti, Jr., is recognized as one of the exceptional young conductors emerging on the international scene.
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