History: Sophia Loren's 'fear' of Jayne Mansfield's 'nipples'
Myths.Loren and Bardot, two parallel lives in the mirror of the 80s
From
starving and living with the bombs
during World War II to becoming the last great legend of Italian cinema.
Sofía Loren
(86), the woman who loves to cook pasta at home and
walk alone in the park,
returns to the cinema after a decade of absence.
How could it be less,
her son Edoardo
was in charge of convincing her to shoot at his command for the third time in
Life ahead
, which will premiere on Netflix on November 13.
Although she does not like to be called a diva, or to be
protected by former Mossad agents
as happened on her last visit to Barcelona, there is no doubt that Loren is one of those works of art in which a divine hand has intervened.
When
Carlo Ponti saw her at the age of 15,
he left her a note for her to appear in the
Miss Italia
contest
,
which had previously been won by future actresses Silvana Pampanini and Lucia Bosé.
The 3-year-old actress in the arms of her father, Riccardo Scicolone.
Sofia was 15 years old and Carlo 37, but despite the age difference,
the first sparks arose
between them
after winning the title of Miss Elegance in 1950. Goodbye to the
Scicolone
that had been an extra in
Qvo Vadis
(1951), goodbye to the
Lazzaro
who had starred fotonovelas ...
Ponti and Loren christened.
Currently, the interpreter is Miss Italia
ad honorem
.
Seven years later, they
were married by proxy in Mexico,
but that link lacked validity since Ponti was accused of being a
bigamist
, the Vatican alleged that they were
adulterers
and a group of housewives from Pozzuoli denounced her for an
attack on morals .
Finally, they officially formalized their union in Paris in 1966.
With Marcello Mastroiani in 'The thief, her father and the taxi driver'.
As a producer, Ponti had a clinical eye.
He made her a star
, as he had previously done with Silvana Mangano, Alida Valli or Gina Lollobrigida, his great enemy for maintaining the status of the last great Italian star to conquer Hollywood.
But there Loren, winner of
two Oscars
and invited countless times to the red carpet of the golden statuette
, has the advantage
.
While Sofia rested in her
mansion,
perched on an obsolete basalt quarry used to build the great Roman road of the Appia Antica from 312 BC, and
surrounded by exclusive works of art
by Canaletto, Picasso and Bacon, she received a phone call on the night of April 9, 1962. On the other side of the apparatus
Cary Grant,
who had thrown him in Spain during the filming of
Pride and Passion
(1957), told him that he had won the Oscar for best performer.
Sofia Loren and her husband, Carlo Ponti, in an image from the 1950s.
For the
first time in history,
a non-English speaking actress had succeeded, ousting Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood, Geraldine Page and Piper Laurie.
Two years later she was nominated for
Italian Marriage
and in 1991,
her great friend Gregory Peck
awarded her another honorific.
In the stalls, a proud and excited Carlo Ponti along with his
two sons, Carlo and Edoardo,
clapped wildly.
The Pygmalion's dream had come true.
Gone were the
abandonment of her father, the economic hardships,
the lack of a roof to sleep, her native Pozzuoli (Naples), the rags ... Now,
Sofia wore Armani and Dior, she
wore emeralds, diamonds and rubies (they have reached her to rob in their different houses up to five times) and lived in a
superb mansion
on the outskirts of Geneva.
In Hollywood he lived through everything.
From calling attention to
Marlon Brando himself
when he reached out to him, to refusing to autograph the famous photo in which
Jayne Mansfield practically puts her tit on the plate
during his official presentation in the cinema mecca.
With his son Edoardo Ponti, who has directed him in his latest project, Life ahead, for Netflix.
Despite having touched the sky and being Brand Italy in the world, the muse of Vittorio de Sica and
sister
of
Marcello Mastroianni
likes simple things.
She often travels to the United States
to see her four grandchildren, she loves to work as a housewife in front of her intimate friends, she enjoys being alone at home and she often
rejects invitations
to go to dinner and if they demand her to go to an event, Check must not be
less than 100,000 euros.
If there is a black mark in her biography, it would have to go back to 1982, when Loren monopolized the pages of events around the world after being
imprisoned for 17 days
for an alleged tax evasion.
But the divine strengthened her own legend.
Until never to that adolescent who was called 'toothpick' or 'toothpick' for being practically
a walking skeleton.
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