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Tag Archives: Sophia Loren
A Special Day / Una giornata particolare (1977) Ettore Scola, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon

It’s the late 1930’s Rome. It’s a national holiday in Italy today for the first state visit of Adolf Hitler to the country. Read More »
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow / Ieri oggi domani (1963) Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè

Three different stories of Italian social mores are presented. In “Adelina”, unemployed Carmine Sbaratti Read More »
Aida (1953) Clemente Fracassi, Sophia Loren, Renata Tebaldi, Lois Maxwell

Aida, featuring the actress Sophia Lauren, was a film adaptation of a theatre performance written by Verdi. Read More »
White Sister / Bianco rosso e… (1972) Alberto Lattuada, Sophia Loren, Adriano Celentano, Fernando Rey

A nun falls in love with her patient, who happens to be a communist. Read More »
A Breath of Scandal (1960) Michael Curtiz, Sophia Loren, Maurice Chevalier, John Gavin

Austrian Princess Olympia is in a quandary. Olympia is betrothed to an unloving, buffoonish Prussian prince named Ruprecht. Read More »
The Pride and the Passion (1957) Stanley Kramer, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren

The story in this movie deals with the perseverance of Spaniards to take back their country from the French Read More »
The Black Orchid (1958) Martin Ritt, Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Peter Mark Richman

After mobsters murder her husband, Rose Bianco works long hours making artificial flowers, to support herself and her son. Read More »
Boccaccio ’70 (1962) Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider

Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide Read More »
The Gold of Naples AKA L’oro di Napoli (1954) Vittorio De Sica, Silvana Mangano, Sophia Loren, Eduardo De Filippo

Tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Neapolitan episodes Read More »