Sophia Loren 80 years old, life and career in pictures.

Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren

The newsreels of the 60s to celebrate the actress in the day of his birthday. Fragments showing symbol of Italian actress who has done the work, effort and of course the beauty.

Sophia Loren

A special day that of 20 September for Sophia Loren, turns eighty years the only real star Italian (pace of Gina Lollobrigida, long-standing controversy), beauty and charm, the confidentiality of private life "broken" just dall'autobiografia date prints, queen always welcome, among the most recent appearances in May at the Cannes Film Festival, to accompany the human voice short film shot by his son Edward. 

A long career, which initially awarded her beauty explosive and then the accuracy, manic, in the care of the craft as an actress, consecrated by a long series of awards, including an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in '91, the Academy Award for actress for Two Women in '62 ten awards to David - between statuettes and plaques - a Volpi Cup in '58 (for the Black Orchid by Martin Ritt), the golden Bear '94, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in '98, the Legion of Honor in '91 - in 2009 it entered the Guinness Book of Records as the most award-winning Italian actress of all time. 

On the occasion of the eightieth birthday of Loren, the appointment is with "Happy Birthday Sophia!", From Saturday, September 20: a review of seven unforgettable films streamed on the platform MYMOVIESLIVE! Seven events in streaming with free access to a limited number of viewers to retrace the career of Italian most internationally recognized and relive the most memorable performances. The film of the festival will also be available on demand, always 20, for the public "unlimited" of MYMOVIESLIVE !. 

The exhibition opens with a double event: the 20's documentary Roberto Olla and Danila Satta Trying Sophia, a trip through history and passions of the actress; and at 21.30, one of the masterpieces by Vittorio De Sica, Marriage Italian Style (1964), for which the actress also celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of his Oscar nomination. In the bill, a roundup of cult movies including Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), with the legendary scene of striptease in front of Marcello Mastroianni, passing by Once Upon a Time (1967) by Francesco Rosi and comedy These ghosts (1967), freely adapted from Eduardo. Closing the festival will be, however, the award-winning A Special Day (1977) signed by Ettore Scola, in which Loren gives the audience another masterful interpretation, again teaming with Mastroianni.

Leaving for Spain for the film El Cid with Charlton Heston, at home with friends to celebrate the 29 years old, dressed in rags in the character of Madame St. Gene, very elegant on stage to receive an award, the beauty of Sophia Loren triumphs anyway. It is especially Loren the sixties that appears in the images of Light. No longer Sofia Scicolone, the impetuous girl of Pozzuoli with her ​​mother Romilda waited for hours at Cinecittà in the crowd of aspiring extras, no longer Sofia Lazzaro queen of soap operas who was dreaming adventurous lives and happy with my readers Dream or Bolero. It's Sophia Loren - Sophia or as he wanted some imaginative producer - who, after dozens of appearances without a story, the audience and the critics had recognized Italian actress with films like The Lady of the River by Mario Soldati and L'oro di Napoli by Vittorio De Sica, in which he was the busty Pizzaiola, and the tabloid press immediately proclaimed the rivalry with Bersagliera Gina Lollobrigida.

Above all, Sophia Loren who returned to Italy after a four-year contract with Paramount in America and films such as Pride and the Passion, Boy on a Dolphin, Desire Under the Elms, next to the big names in Hollywood. Delirium of photographers who waits offers the image of a sophisticated diva, proud, smiling, impeccable elegance, has lost even the Neapolitan accent. She came back "because I love Italy," he says in the clip. But in Italy in Democrat, if the audience reciprocates the love of cinema, part of the Italian sentence as a "public sinner", while Carlo Ponti are accused of "public sinner", but also of bigamy. For years, the relationship between the actress and the producer has been the subject of heated chronicles the newspapers. They had met in Rome, she was 17 and hungry for success, he 40 years old, Milanese lawyer, said in tandem with producer Dino De Laurentiis, married, father of two children. The American experience had lived together, essential for the career of Loren, but also appropriate to move away from the ferocity of gossip in Italy. At that time, Loren and Ponti become husband and wife, a wedding in Mexico, where it was also easy to get a divorce. The marriage, however, is not recognized in Italy in the fifties, so that in '58, when the Venice Loren assigns to the Volpi Cup for his portrayal of Black Orchid, the actress remains at the Lido for a few hours, fears of be arrested.

In the sixties, something changes. The image of Loren is entrusted to the press agents Matteo Spinola and Henry Sisk, who urged her to win the hearts of the mothers Italian exalting his desire for motherhood. And here's the clip that Sophia Loren in '62 donates generously to Avis at the Piazza del Popolo, the year after participating in the charity lunch for 1,500 children of the Roman suburbs and moves affectionately with them, returning to Pozzuoli and caresses young admirers who besiege festive. Change the custom in Italy, Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti begin to appear together, calm down the gossip. The actress finds Marcello Mastroianni, buddy movie so nice, especially De Sica and finds him become Two Women. It is the culmination of all his dreams as an actress, is the Oscar 1962 In the pictures there is the Ponti and Loren with a group of friends in his home in Rome, waiting for the verdict. To communicate the news to the phone is Cary Grant, partner of many films, much more than a friend, a man in love, the only one who could make her break the bond with Ponti. It is a feast for the actress and for all of Italian cinema. With the Oscars just becomes Sofia, icon of Italian beauty in the world, then as now. The time does not count, happy birthday Sofia.