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Birth
Name: Sofia Villani Scicolone
Height 5' 8"
Sometimes Credited As:
Sofia Lazzaro
Sofia Loren
Sofia Scicolone
Spouse:
Carlo Ponti (9 April 1966 - present)
Carlo Ponti (17 September 1957 - 1962) (annulled) 2 sons
As
a child, she also had the nickname, "Toothpick".
17
September 1999 - Filed a lawsuit against 76 websites for using
"fraudulent photographs" of her on adult sites.
Mother
of Edoardo Ponti.
She
may have been the voluptuous sex goddess as an adult, but
as a skinny child she was nicknamed 'The Stick.'
Chosen
by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People
in the world. [1991]
Chosen
by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film
history (#25). [1995]
She
had her marriage annulled to save Ponti from bigamy sharges
in Italy.
She
served 18 days in prison in Italy in 1982 for tax evasion.
Born
at 2:10pm-CET
Derives
great pleasure from rolling her bare feet over a wooden rolling
pin while watching TV.
She
didn't get on with Marlon Brando during the shooting of 'The
Countess from Hong Kong' (1966), especially after the day
they were doing a love scene and he commented, 'Did you know
you have hairs up your nostrils?'
She
performed two duets with Peter Sellers which were major hits
in the UK pop chart. 'Goodness Gracious Me' was released in
1960 and reached four and 'Bangers and Mash' made it to the
top 20 in 1961.
Carlo
Ponti obtains a Mexican divorce from his first wife and marries
Sophia by proxy while she was in Hollywood filming "Houseboat"
- and dating co-star Cary Grant. [17 September 1957]
While
filming "Boy on a Dolphin", Sophia was required to walk in
a trench in order to give audiences the impression that her
diminutive co-star, Alan Ladd, was taller than she.
Her
sister was married to dictator Benito Mussolini's son, Romano.
Their daughter, Alessandra, is a controversial figure in Italy
because of her involvment in the neo-fascist Fiamma Tricolore
party.
Suffered
from stage fright and, therefore, never appeared in a theatrical
production.
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