LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Sophia Loren: Marcello Mastroianni
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Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni are reunited on the screen by Italian director Ettore Scola in this touching comedy-drama. She's a frumpy housewife, he's an embittered homosexual, and they meet on the day in 1938 of Hitler's meeting with Mussolini. 105 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English (dubbed).
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Cab driver Marcello Mastroianni takes gorgeous (and blonde!) Sophia Loren and her two pals to the beach, but soon Sophia wants to swipe Marcello's taxi. What gives? Well, he discovers after meeting Vittorio de Sica, Loren's slick father, that Dad and daughter are thieves, and Marcello believes that by marrying her, she'll change her tune and go straight. This lively Italian farce marks the first of 13 times Mastroianni and Loren shared the screen. 95 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Italian mono; Subtitles: English; bonus shorts. In Italian with English subtitles.
Back in Hollywood, Loren reunited with Anthony Mann to star with Stephen Boyd in the dramatic film The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964). She was nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe award for portraying Filumena Marturano, a woman who has an affair with a successful businessman (played by Marcello Mastroianni), in Vittorio De Sica's version of Eduardo De Filippo's play, Marriage Italian-Style (a.k.a. Matrimonio all'italiana, 1964). Subsequently, she was seen in the UK costarring with George Peppard in Michael Anderson's war drama film Operation Crossbow (1965), and played the titular role of Lady L. (... in 1965), an elegant, elderly lady, in Peter Ustinov's screen adaptation of Romain Gary's popular novel with the same title.
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After that acting triumph, Loren returned to Hollywood as a Star Eminence. As one of the last traditional movie queens, she gracefully enlivened the superior epic, El Cid, stunningly clotheshorsed her way through the spyjinks of Arabesque, and brought enchantment to bear on a beggarman's version of Man of La Mancha, one of the musical genre's last gasps. An inestimable star in English, she is perhaps a finer actress in her native tongue. Having danced a comic-dramatic two-step with Mastroianni in such smash hits as Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, and Marriage Italian Style, she ... paired beautifully with him in Scola's A Special Day, as a love-starved fascist-brainwashed housewife enjoying a respite from unhappiness.
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After turning 60 in 1994, Loren received a Hollywood Walk of Fame star and numerous lifetime achievement awards. Entertainment Weekly selected her as one of The 100 Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in 1996. She appeared in Pret-a-Porter (Ready to Wear), which marked her fifteenth and final pairing with Mastroianni, who died shortly after.
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Once she achieved motherhood, Loren worked less. She moved into her 40's and 50's with roles in films including the last De Sica movie, The Voyage, with Richard Burton and Ettore Scola's A Special Day with Mastroianni.
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