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From November 07 2024 To November 30 2024. Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Los Angeles - 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. In celebration of Sofia Loren's 90th birthday, the Academy Museum presents this overview of some of her most enduring performances. The series will open with Vittorio De Sica’s “Two Women” (La Ciociara), which earned...

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This week marks a full century since the actor Marcello Mastroianni entered our world on September 28, 1924. Now, nearly 30 years on since he exited, it remains quasi-illegal to write anything about him without using the two words he detested most of all: “Latin Lover.” Dating back to at least 1960, when his performance in Federico Fellini’s La dol...

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Legendary Italian actress Sophia Loren, one of the last stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, will celebrate her 90th birthday in Rome on Friday 20 September. The Italian culture ministry and Cinecittà film studios will mark the milestone by hosting a private party for the Oscar-winning actress and her family, with guests from all over the world expecte...

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Pozzuoli, a small town near Naples, is about as far from Hollywood as you can get. There is no glitz, no glamor, and its residents have been historically impoverished. Back in the 1940s, this was even more so the case. But, it was here, among the rubble of bomb sites and the blares of sirens, that a star was born.   Sophia Loren’s childhood was def...

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Italian actress Sophia Loren wants fans to know she's doing A-okay after a fall in the bathroom led to a fractured hip and femur. Her agent, Andrea Giusti, shared a statement from the Man of La Mancha star with the Associated Press on Tuesday, Sept. 26, in which she sent her thanks to all of her well-wishers in the aftermath of the incident and ass...

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Film legend Sophia Loren is recovering from successful surgery for a leg fracture after she fell in her Switzerland home, an agent for the 89-year-old Italian actor said Monday. Agent Andrea Giusti said in an email that Loren fell in a bathroom on Sunday and the surgery was performed later that day. The operation “went very well and now we only nee...

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WHAT’S LIFE without glamour?… Pretty boring. For some, glamour is winged eyeliner and a black plunging strapless dress, for others, glamour is an afternoon siesta on a striped sunbed, with Dean Martin crooning softly in your ear. For others, glamour transcends the physical form; it’s an attitude, a mindset, an energy that enters a room before you d...

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Gina Lollobrigida’s death on January 16, 2023, inspired us to look back and reflect on an extraordinary era of Italian cinema that spans the neorealism of the 1940s to the early 1970s. During that time, numerous directors with different styles brought Italy to life on the big screen, and the actresses became as well-known around the world as any Ho...

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When I watch them today, my movies seem even better.” This is what Gina Lollobrigida used to say, not with self-complacency but because there is truth in it. Those movies shaped our collective imagination. If we watch them, if we look at those actors, directors, stories, at those incredibly beautiful actresses who made the history of cinema, photog...

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Sophia Loren on Monday led tributes to Gina Lollobrigida, long her rival for the title of Italy's sexiest screen bombshell export, who has died at the age of 95. "I'm deeply shaken and saddened, and above all incredulous at what has happened," said Loren, 88, after the passing of her fellow diva and legend. Talking to ANSA, Loren said that for the...

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