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Sophia Loren

Italian actress and Golden Age Hollywood icon.

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Sophia Loren is an Italian actress born Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone on 20 September 1934 in Rome.[1][2] With a career that has lasted more than seven decades, Sophia Loren is among the final remaining prominent figures from Hollywood's Golden Age.[3]

Making and release

Loren participated in her first beauty pageant at age 15.[4] She won the title of Miss Elegance 1950 at that pageant.[5] She appeared as an uncredited extra in the 1951 film Quo Vadis when she was 16.[6] Carlo Ponti adopted the stage name Sophia Loren for her, which was a variation on Swedish actress Märta Torén's name.[7]

The first film where she played the lead was Aida (1953), a performance that earned her positive reviews.[7] The movie The Gold of Naples (1954), with Vittorio De Sica as director, served as her career-launching role.[7]

What the cited sources add

The Biography account states that Loren's mother took her to Pozzuoli after her birth, where she grew up in extreme poverty.[8] The same source notes that during an aerial bombardment Loren was knocked down and split open her chin, leaving a scar.[8] That obituary also states that Ponti and Loren married by proxy in Mexico in 1957, with two male attorneys standing in for them.[9] The Il Messaggero article quotes Loren's sister Maria saying that Loren paid their father so Maria could take the Scicolone last name.[10]

The Corriere della Sera article confirms that Loren crowned the 71st Miss Italia winner in 2010.[11]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Sophia Loren" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Loren, Sophia", Oxford University Press (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Sophia Loren" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: EnciclopediaTreccani, "Sophia Loren profile", Treccani.it (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Sophia Loren" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Stanton, "Sophia Loren's devastating injury after complicated journey to become the ultimate golden age sex symbol", Fox News, 2023-09-26 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Sophia Loren" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Storia di una foto: Sofia nel 1949 quando non era Loren", Corriere della Sera, 2018-10-21 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Sophia Loren" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Sofia Loren: "A Miss Italia è cominciata la mia carriera di attrice"", Missitalia; "Sophia incorona Francesca Ecco la nuova Miss Italia", Corriere della Sera (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Sophia Loren" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Celia M. Reilly, "Quo Vadis", Turner Classic Movies; Small, "Sophia Loren: Moulding the Star", Intellect Books, 2009, p. 24; "Michał Waszyński", Culture.pl (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Sophia Loren" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Sophia Loren biography at", Yahoo! Movies (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. "Sophia Loren", Biography, 23 April 2021. facts only, no text reused. biography.com
  9. "Carlo Ponti, Husband to Sophia Loren, Dead at 94", Fox News, 10 January 2007. facts only, no text reused. foxnews.com
  10. Arnaldi, "Maria Scicolone confessa: "Mia sorella Sophia Loren ha comprato il mio cognome"", Il Messaggero, 26 February 2016. facts only, no text reused. ilmessaggero.it
  11. "Sophia incorona Francesca Ecco la nuova Miss Italia", Corriere della Sera. facts only, no text reused. corriere.it

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Sophia Loren (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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