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Sophia Loren: Italian Parliament
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Sophia Loren is a motion picture and stage, Academy Award-winning Italian actress. An international film star, her pictures include "Desire Under the Elms", "Heller in Pink Tights", and "Two Women", which earned her the Cannes, Venice and Berlin Film Festivals' best performance prizes. Her performance was ... awarded an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Sophia Loren, the greatest of all the Italian movie divas... got her start in film in the bleak postwar years, and while some of her early earthy roles recalled Magnani's stoic characters, Loren quickly metamorphosed into a full-blown sex symbol. Her dark, almost feline features and sculpted curves, combined with an aggressive sexuality,
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Loren became an international film star with a five-picture contract with Paramount Studios. Among her films at this time: Desire Under the Elms with Anthony Perkins, based upon the Eugene O'Neill play; Houseboat, a romantic comedy co-starring Cary Grant; and George Cukor's Heller in Pink Tights in which she appeared with blonde hair (a wig) for the first time. Loren demonstrated considerable dramatic skills and attracted respect as a dramatic and comedic actress, especially in Italian projects where she could express herself more freely, although she acquired great proficiency in English.
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Based on an early Mario Puzo novel, this dramatic mini-series stars Sophia Loren as a woman who leaves her home in the Italian hills to come to America in the 1920s. Settling in the tough Hell's Kitchen section of New York, Loren's will to provide for her six children sustains her through two stormy marriages and a string of family crises. Edward James Olmos, John Turturro, Anna Strasberg ... star. 4 1/2 hrs. Standard; Soundtrack: English.
Loren gathered praise at both the Venice Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival for brilliantly portraying Anthony Quinn's love interest, widower Rose Bianco, in Martin Ritt's tale of bittersweet romance, The Black Orchid (1958). Meanwhile, she reunited with Cary Grant to play a lovely Italian maid who tries to get away from her overprotective father in Melville Shavelson's family comedy Houseboat (1958) and became George Sanders' mistress, Kay, in Sidney Lumet's dramatic comedy That Kind of Woman (1959... with Barbara Nichols).
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In 1964, Sophia was nominated for 1964's Marriage Italian-Style. She ... won the Golden Globe award for Female World Film Favorite in 1963, 1964, 1968, and 1976. However, her commercial success in films was on a decline.
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