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	Sophia Loren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sophia Loren (born September 20, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning actress widely considered to be the most famous Italian actress.
		Sophia Loren was born Sofia Villani Scicolone in Rome, Italy, the illegitimate daughter of married engineer Riccardo Scicolone and aspiring actress and piano teacher, Romilda Villani.
		Loren is expected to appear in the 2007 Pirelli Calendar at the age of 72, although she has denied rumors that she will appear nude.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sophia_Loren (1016 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sophia Loren
		Sophia Loren in Two Women (La Ciociara) Two Women (also known as La Ciociara) is a 1960 Italian language film which tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war.
		Sophia Loren (born September 20, 1934) is one of the most famous Italian actresses of all time, and even at the age of 70 continues to be considered one of the most desirable women on the planet.
		Loren moved into her 40s and 50s gracefully and continued to be considered both a fine dramatic actress and a sex symbol for years, with acclaimed roles in films such as The Cassandra Crossing and Robert Altman's Ready to Wear.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sophia-Loren (3911 words)

	Sophia Loren - MSN Encarta
		Sophia Loren, born in 1934, Italian motion-picture actor, who progressed from international sex symbol to Academy Award-winning actress.
		Born in Rome, Loren was a beauty contest winner and was discovered at age 15 by movie producer Carlo Ponti, who later became her husband.
		Loren returned to Italy and acted in the powerful wartime tale directed by Vittorio De Sica, Two Women (1961), for which she earned her first Academy Award.
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	Crystal's Classics: Sophia Loren
		Sophia Loren was born Sofia Scicolone in a Roman charity ward to Romilda Villani, a poverty-stricken woman whose lover refused to marry her - although he later allowed Sophia and her younger sister Maria to use his last name.
		It was not until 1952, however, that she became known as Sophia Loren, when a producer renamed her to disassociate her from her fumetti days.
		Loren was as sexy in both as she had been in her first film, forty years earlier.
	www.angelfire.com /or2/classicstars/loren.html (1016 words)

	The Biography Channel - Sophia Loren Biography
		Born into extreme poverty, the illegitimate daughter of a frustrated actress, the young Loren was given her big break by her future husband, Carlo Ponti, a judge in a beauty contest.
		Loren worked steadily throughout the 1960s in forgettable projects, with some of the industry's most celebrated directors, most of whom were unfortunately past their prime, including Michael Curtiz, Anatole Litvak and Charles Chaplin.
		She was awarded a second, honorary Oscar in 1990, and, in 1994, Loren returned to US films in Robert Altman's much ballyhooed but disappointing take on the French fashion scene, 'Pret-a-Porter'.
	www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/31:801/Sophia_Loren.htm (550 words)

	Sophia Loren
		Sophia Loren was born in a hospital charity ward, and raised in poverty by her single mother.
		Loren quickly became a major star and pin-up girl in Italy, and her first film to find success beyond her native land was La Donna del Fiume, released in America as The River Girl.
		Loren's sister, Anna Maria Scicolone, was married to Romano Mussolini, whose father was Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
	www.nndb.com /people/811/000023742 (655 words)

	SOPHIA LOREN
		If her memoirs, "Sophia Loren: Living And Loving" are to be believed, Sophia's father was a thoroughly nasty piece of work, and his consistent refusal to marry Sophia's mother was apparently the least of his sins.
		Sophia's public image came to the attention of Stanley Kramer who offered her the female lead in "The Pride And The Passion" where she played a Spanish peasant girl involved in an uprising against the French.
		Sophia was now one of the biggest stars in the world, the darling of the critical establishment, and admired internationally for her beauty and her talent.
	www.lovegoddess.info /Sophia.htm (1946 words)

	Amazon.com: Sophia Loren: A Biography: Books: Warren G. Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sophia's mother, a frustrated actress, began to push Sophia into the spotlight, and eventually Sophia caught the attention of producer Carlo Ponti, who recognized her potential.
		Sophia herself is presented as a warm and sweet person, who cabled flowers to Clark Gable's widow and befriended nearly every costar (entrancing a few as well).
		Sophia's family and friends are better defined, such as her never-say-die mother Romilda, her commitmentphobe father, and the extremely emotional Cary Grant.
	www.amazon.com /Sophia-Loren-Biography-Warren-Harris/dp/0684802732 (1307 words)

	AskMen.com - Sophia Loren pictures
		For a woman whose early career was based mostly on her measurements, Sophia Loren carved out an award-winning acting career, wrote books, launched a line of perfume and eyewear, and became an icon of the cinema who is adored by millions of fans the world over.
		Hard as it may be to believe, Sophia Loren was considered an ugly duckling and was teased for being so skinny as a young girl (her nickname was "toothpick"), but as early as the age of fourteen, Sophia began receiving recognition for her unique, exotic beauty, and curvaceous figure.
		Loren has come a long way since she donned an evening gown made from old curtains when she competed in her first beauty pageant at age fourteen.
	www.askmen.com /women/actress_150/157b_sophia_loren.html (927 words)

	Sophia Loren Pictures, Biography, Filmography, Awards, Wallpapers
		Though she had been involved romantically with Carlo Ponti (he was married with two children) from the age of eighteen, Sophia had suffered through years of frustration while he attempted to obtain an annulment from the church.
		Loren and Ponti, 24 years her senior, were married in 1957, following his Mexican divorce from his estranged wife.
		In 'Boy on a Dolphin' (1957), audiences were treated to a vision of her famous endowments in the mesmerizing scene in which she emerges from the ocean wearing a dress made transparent and ultra-clingy by the water.
	www.starglimpse.com /celebs/pages/sophia_loren/sophia_loren.shtml (672 words)

	Sophia Loren
		Sophia Loren was born Sofia Villani Scicolone on September 20, 1934, in a poverty-stricken part of Rome, Italy.
		While Loren's film career was riding an all-time high, her personal life was dealt a blow when she and Ponti were forced by Italian law to have their marriage annulled in 1962.
		Sophia Loren continued to appear in both Italian and U.S. productions through the remainder of the 1970s, most notably 1976's The Cassandra Crossing and yet again with Mastroianni in 1977's A Special Day and 1978's Blood Feud.
	www.freeclipart.dk /Sophia_Loren.htm (1271 words)

	Sophia Loren News
		The screen legend Sophia Loren has posed for the cover of the famous Pirelli calendar as she approaches her 72nd birthday.
		Sophia Loren's necklace and earrings, made of gold and diamond spheres, are featured in the exhibit 'Treasures of the Titans: 1950-Present.' It's staged by the National Jewelry Institute at the Forbes Galleries...
		Italian actress Sophia Loren is in Israel to attend the 70th birthday celebrations of Zubin Mehta, lifetime director of the Israel Symphony Orchestra and her close friend.
	www.topix.net /who/sophia-loren (705 words)

	sophia loren \| biography (born 1934)
		By the mid-'50s, Loren was a star in Italy as well as a major sex symbol, but with the exception of 1955's Attila Flagello di Dio, co-starring Anthony Quinn, few of her pictures were distributed internationally.
		Loren, however, was singled out for the strength of her performance as a Neapolitan shopkeeper, surprising many critics who had dismissed her as merely another bombshell.
		Upon returning to Italy, Loren reunited with de Sica in 1961's La Ciociara, a wartime drama in which she starred as a widowed mother caught in a love triangle with her teen daughter (Eleanora Brown) and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
	www.leninimports.com /sophia_loren.html (963 words)

	Welcome to Zyloware Corporation
		Gregory Peck called Sophia Loren a "treasure of world cinema," and no one represents pure elegance and timeless beauty better.
		Sophia Loren is often lauded as having changed the old adage "men don't make passes at women wearing glasses." Proud of being photographed wearing glasses, she truly incorporates and accessorizes her wardrobe with a large selection of Sophia Loren Eyewear.
		Sophia Loren was the first celebrity to have an eyewear brand, and since 1980, her collection has been one of the top-selling brands to women over 40.
	www.zyloware.com /sophia_main.asp (110 words)

	Sophia Loren Biography - Bombshells.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sophia met director /producer Carlo Ponti during the competition for the Miss Roma beauty contest.
		Sophia then met director/actor Vittorio de Sica who enlisted her for a part in The Gold of Naples.
		Loren headed for Hollywood, where she would be cast with scores of legends including Marlon Brando, Clark Gable, and Cary Grant.
	www.bombshells.com /gallery/loren/loren_bio.shtml (467 words)

	Amazon.com: Sophia Loren's Recipes and Memories: Books: Sophia Loren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Loren is a very down-to-earth cook, and she invites you into her kitchen to share her recipes and memories.
		Loren discovered on various locations of her many movies, or created herself from her vast knowledge of the culinary arts (this is not her first cookbook!).
		Loren's long and illustrious career, and her home life in Italy and abroad, with lush and colorful glimpses into a life centered around the pleasures of home and the family kitchen, as well as behind the camera.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1577193679?v=glance (1980 words)

	Sophia Loren
		Loren held her opposite a number of high profile Hollywood actors.
		I thought the only reason Sophia Loren could make me cry was because I couldn't have her, fantasies notwithstanding.
		Sophia Loren can still take my breath away (I wish she could take my breadth away!).
	www.filmsondisc.com /posterarchive/Sophia_Loren/sophia_loren.htm (1256 words)

	AMCTV.com BIOGRAPHY - Sophia Loren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As Sophia Loren's friend, Charlie Chaplin, once said about her: "Out of chaos comes the birth of a star." When one looks back at the long and at times difficult life of Loren, it seems that truer words were never spoken.
		Sophia Loren was born Sofia Scicolone on September 20, 1934, in Rome, Italy.
		Sophia has always managed to be nimble in her career.
	www.amctv.com /person/detail?CID=1720-1-1 (604 words)

	Sophia Loren - Bedeutung, Definition, Erklärung im netlexikon
		Sophia Loren wuchs in der Kleinstadt Pozzuoli bei Neapel in ärmlichen Verhältnissen auf.
		Sophias Schwester Anna Maria Scicolone heiratete Romano Mussolini, einen Jazzpianisten, der als dritter Sohn des faschistischen Diktators Benito Mussolini geboren wurde.
		Sophia Loren ist damit die Tante von Alessandra Mussolini, der Enkelin des Diktators.
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Sophia-Loren.html (486 words)

	BookRags: Sophia Loren Biography
		Loren and Ponti were married by proxy in Mexico on September 17, 1957.
		Loren was asked to be the first female grand marshall of the annual Columbus Day Parade in New York City, a parade celebrating Italian-Americans, which she did in 1984.
		Loren also continued her publishing work with a second cookbook, Sophia Loren's Recipes and Memories in 1998.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/sophia-loren (1789 words)

	The Sophia Loren Picture Pages
		Sophia placed second in the Miss Rome beauty contest in 1951 and encountered one of the event's judges, film producer Carlo Ponti, who would also become her husband.
		Loren spent the next years in Europe, playing a role in Boccaccio '70 (1962, segment "La riffa") and the title role of a woman who uses her looks to climb the social ladder in Napoleonic France in Christian-Jaque's remake of the 1925 Madame Sans-Gene (1962).
		Still on television, Loren could be seen as a mother with a young daughter who travels on a dangerous journey to her childhood village, in the screen version of Alberto Moravia's novel, Ciociara, La (a.k.a.
	www.superiorpics.com /sophia_loren (2192 words)

	Sophia Loren (1934 - )
		Sophia Loren (born September 20, 1934) is considered to be one of the most famous Italian actresses of all time who at the age of 70, continues to be considered a top sex symbol.
		Although she had appeared in a bit part in the Hollywood blockbuster Quo Vadis in 1951, it was not until 1957's Boy on a Dolphin that Loren became a major international film star, due in part to the iconic image of her wearing a water-soaked, body-clinging dress.
		Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbor Mastroianni.
	www.jahsonic.com /SophiaLoren.html (534 words)

	Sophia Loren Fan Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The voluptuous Sophia Loren was among the most successful international stars of the postwar era -- not only did she rise to fame as a sex symbol, but she also won a measure of critical acclaim rarely afforded most of her foreign-born contemporaries.
		Born Sofia Scicolone in Rome on September 20, 1934, she and her single mother lived in abject poverty in the war-torn slums of Naples.
		At the age of 14 she began entering area beauty contests, later becoming a model and appearing in a number of uncredited bit parts in films.
	www.geocities.com /sophia_loren_fan (213 words)

	Sophia Loren - Auction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sophia Loren has been voted the world's most naturally beautiful person, at the age of 71.
		Sophia Loren makes the grade as a Pirelli pin-up at age of...
		SCREEN legend Sophia Loren is to grace the cover of the famous Pirelli calendar at the age of 71.
	www.world-of-celebrities.com /sophia_loren/auction.htm (174 words)

	Sophia Loren's Cookbook
		Sophia Loren's Italian cookbook, Recipes and Memories, offers over 100 recipes for cooking traditional Italian food with flavors from all over Italy.
		Loren offers the home cook a way to create authentic traditional Italian dishes, with some recipes using contemporary Italian pan-style cooking techniques.
		The recipes in her new cookbook are models of clarity, and Sophia's introductory notes, color photographs and other asides leave no doubt that the author is a serious, passionate cook with the love and appreciation of the tradition and flavors of Italian food from all across Italy.
	www.cooking-italian-food.com /sophialoren.htm (214 words)

	Sophia Loren Biography
		During the 1960s Loren was one of the most popular actresses in the world, and continued to make popular films in both America and in Europe, acting with all the leading male stars of the time.
		After becoming a mother of two sons her career slowed down and Loren moved into her 40s and 50s with acclaimed roles in films such as the last De Sica movie, The Voyage, with Richard Burton and Ettore Scola's A Special Day with Mastroianni.
		Sophia Loren was portrayed by Sonia Aquino in the 2004 biopic The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, as well as by Silvia Vrij in a 1980 film entitled Dirty Picture.
	www.myclassiclyrics.com /artist_biographies/Sophia_Loren_Biography.htm (809 words)

	CNN - Sophia Loren out of the hospital - August 18, 1998
		Loren's producer-husband, Carlo Ponti, had said Monday from his home north of Los Angeles that Loren was feeling fine.
		Kline said Loren was examined for arrhythmia, a variation in the normal rhythm of heartbeat which can be life-threatening.
		Loren, raised in poverty in Naples in 1934, became one of the world's most glamorous movie stars, appearing in more than 50 films made in Italy, the United States, France, Canada and Britain.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9808/18/sophia.loren/index.html (494 words)

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