Happy Birthday, Sophia Loren! In honor of her 87th birthday, we compiled a photographic tribute to the film and beauty icon
Before there was Sophia Loren, there was Sofia Villani Scicolone. Born in Rome at a charity ward for unwed mothers, Loren was raised in extreme poverty by an aspiring actress who looked exactly like Greta Garbo. After she won “Miss Elegance” at the 1950 Miss Italia pageant, however, it didn’t take long for filmmakers to notice Loren’s own otherworldly beauty.
The most-photographed guest at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Loren became an even bigger star in the latter 1950s. After 1957’s—both starring Cary Grant—played up her looks without asking much else of her abilities, Loren’s harrowing turn in 1960’smade it clear to casting directors that one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood was also one of the most talented.
Loren has been largely absent from screens since the early ’80s, eschewing her film career to focus on raising her two children with Ponti. But on the rare occasion that she chooses to grace a screen with her presence these days—be it a one-scene cameo in, directed by her son Edoardo Ponti—Loren still radiates undeniable star power.compiled a photographic tribute to the film and beauty icon.Loren eating a piece of flatbread in 1954.
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