Sophia Loren

Author: (Italian) Moscati
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Publish Date: 1999-12-01
Features: This book describes the life, love, marriage, and artistic career of Sophia Loren in Italy and Hollywood, providing readers with many little-known background details about Sophia Loren and the film industry. Sophia Loren is an internationally renowned Italian film star, known for her ability to portray passionate and rustic ordinary women. In Two Women, she successfully played Cecilia, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1961. Her film Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the Academy Awards in 1963; later, she received the Best Actress Award at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1965 for starring in The Italian Wedding. In 1991, she was awarded the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, which was a particularly fitting recognition of her career.