Sophia Loren '83

• Sophia Loren '83

September 20 Sophia Loren celebrates '83. Congratulations to the most beautiful woman in Italy on his birthday and remember that from a young age and to this day Sophia Loren struck by its beauty. First winning the beauty contest in Naples, a 14-year-olds, it is many times honored with the honorary title of the first beauty.

In 2006, at age 71 Sophia Loren has been voted the most beautiful woman in the world. In 2007, she was not afraid to withdraw nude for the famous Pirelli Calendar. But worldwide fame brought Sophia Loren movie. Starring in more than 100 films, Sophia Loren is the owner of honorary awards major film festivals.

Sophia Loren (at birth - Sofia Villani Shikolone) was born in Rome on September 20, 1934.

Mother Sophia was Romilda Villani, a teacher of piano and aspiring actress. In 1932 she passed the audition to be the understudy Greta Garbo, but her film career prevented pregnancy.

Romilda Villani gave birth to a daughter of the engineer Riccardo Shikolone in the hope that he would marry her. But he did not want to engage with it in a legal marriage, and the mother had to return to his native town of Pozzuoli, near Naples. Subsequently, Sophia Loren said in an interview: "I'm not Italian, Neapolitan, I!"

Hope mother Sophia, that the father of her daughter to marry her, not faded, and she gave birth to his second daughter, Anna Maria, but Romilda Villani and remained a single mother with two daughters.

Sofia and her sister grew up in poverty. Future star with his little sister slept on a mattress on the floor. The girls were not toys and they molded themselves puppets of bread crumb.

In the childhood beauty Sophia Loren was a real ugly duckling. Skinny and leggy, she was not popular among his peers. Stuck to insulting nickname "The pole", and indeed, she considered herself a plain woman.

However, the advantages of the future movie star was able to see her mother - a former actress. Prompted by the desire to realize his daughter all your unfulfilled dreams of a brilliant acting career, she began to send her photos to beauty contests.

So in 15 years, Sofia Shikolone won first in his life recognition - the second place in a beauty contest in Naples and the first in their lives fee: a few rolls of wallpaper, the kitchen tablecloth with napkins, 23,000 lire (about $ 35) and a free ticket to Rome. In short, according to the then provincial standards - start in life.

In 1950 was in the "Miss Italy", where he received the prize of "Miss Elegance", established by the jury for her. At this competition she noticed a well-known film producer Carlo Ponti, who at that time was 37 years old and invited Sophia 7-year contract.

a pair relationship with the age difference outgrown simple collaboration in 22 years, but officially married in Italy they could not: Ponti was married, and in Catholic Italy at the time the divorce was practically impossible to obtain.

In the end, September 17, 1957 Ponti and Sophia Loren (Sophia took the pseudonym "Lauren" in 1953 at the insistence of Ponti) secretly married in Mexico. Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren annulled the marriage in 1962 to avoid charges of bigamy Ponti.

Carlo Ponti was able to get a divorce from his first wife in 1965, but not in Italy and in France. Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren officially married April 9, 1966.

Few people know that the actress at first could not get pregnant, then she had two miscarriages. For several years, Sophie was treated for infertility. Lauren treatment has borne fruit, she gave birth to a son, Carlo Ponti, Jr., and four years later was born the second son Edoardo Ponti.

The actress is fluent in English, French and Italian.

It was Carlo Ponti made of a provincial girl Sophia actress of world scale. First Ponti was not opposed to Sophie filmed naked, but in the early 1960s, he bought all the films young Lauren where she bared so as not to spoil the reputation of the already known by the time Sophia Loren.

The attention of serious critics Lauren first attracted to the film by Vittorio De Sica "The Gold of Naples" (1954), in which she got in their native element, playing a spirited Neapolitan shopkeeper. The role of ordinary women of the people, whom she knew as a child, and one of which could become managed to keep her best and caused the most favorable reviews from critics.

It was De Sica fully discovered acting talent Sophia Loren. Almost all of the most important roles were played by it in the films of this director.

"I loved it - admitted Sophia Loren. - I loved him, the story of our love lasted 20 years, and the result was 14 films. " The most significant for the actress works were "The Gold of Naples", "Chochara", "The Condemned of Altona", "Marriage in Italian".

Sophie opened before directed to different sides. Her heroines surprised authenticity and vitality.

The pinnacle of acting Sophia Loren was the fulfillment of the mother role in "Chochara" - neo-realist film based on the novel by Alberto Moravia. In one of the climactic scenes of the heroine Lauren becomes the victim of brutal violence. The actor's expressive and organic Lauren made such an impression on overseas critics, that "Oscar" prize was awarded to her for this role. This is the first time that the prize in this category was awarded for the film not shot in English.

Once the Archbishop joked that although the Vatican does not approve the cloning of human beings, he could make an exception for a Sophia Loren.

For fifteen years, Sophia Loren has worked with the most popular actor and sex symbol of Hollywood: Anthony Perkins, Anthony Quinn, Clark Gable, Peter Sellers, Charlton Heston, Alec Guinness, Paul Newman, Peck Gregory, Marlon Brando, Peter O ' Thule, Richard Burton and Jean Gabin.

Sophia Loren different wit, and some of its phrases have become winged in Italy, one of them: "Everything I have, I owe to spaghetti."

In the second half of the 70th Sophia Loren more rarely appears in the movie, and in 1984, its role and become completely isolated.

In the 90s, she starred with Marcello Mastroianni, with whom they formed one of the most famous duos in the history of cinema, in the film of Robert Altman's "High Fashion".

Later, the picture came out "Grumpier Old Men."

His last work, where the actress appeared before the audience, was the picture of her son, "Just between us" in 2002.

"If I had to act in the best, in the most important in the world of the film, which, however, would cause at least some harm to my personal life - a spouse or mother, I would answer: No, thank you. Because a movie - it's a movie, and life - this is my life "- shared Loren in one of his long interview.

In 1999, Sophia Loren has been included in the American Film Institute list of the 25 greatest actresses in the history of cinema.

In the district of Etobicoke in Toronto, one of the streets named in honor of Sophia Loren.

In 2006, at age 71 Sophia Loren has been voted the most beautiful woman in the world. In addition, at that age, she was not afraid to withdraw nude for the famous Pirelli Calendar. This edition commemorates the brightest beauties of our time, and not older than 40.

Sophia Loren - winner of various prizes of film festivals: Cannes, Venice, Moscow, Berlin. Actress - winner of five awards "Golden Globe" - in the special nomination "The favorite of the world public."