{"id":5219,"date":"2024-12-01T15:29:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/village.elisaleonelli.com\/?p=5219"},"modified":"2024-12-02T05:16:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T13:16:27","slug":"sophia-loren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/village.elisaleonelli.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/01\/sophia-loren\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Loren"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sophia Loren (c) HFPA 2003<\/p><\/div>\n

The Academy Museum presented the retrospective \u201cSophia Loren: La Diva di Napoli<\/a>\u201d (November 7-30) to celebrate the 90th birthday of the Italian movie star.<\/p>\n

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Elisa Leonelli, Sophia Loren (c) HFPA 2003<\/p><\/div>\n

Included were The Gold of Naples<\/em><\/a> (L\u2019oro di Napoli, 1954) directed by Vittorio DeSica, Too Bad She\u2019s Bad<\/em><\/a> (Peccato che sia una canaglia, 1955) by Alessandro Blasetti, The Sign of Venus<\/em><\/a> (Il segno di Venere 1955) by Dino Risi, Two Women<\/em><\/a> (La ciociara, 1960), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow<\/em><\/a> (Ieri, oggi, domani, 1963), and Marriage Italian Style<\/em><\/a> (Matrimonio all\u2019italiana 1964), all three directed by Vittorio De Sica.<\/p>\n

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Sophia Loren (c) HFPA 1977<\/p><\/div>\n

I wrote the minibio of Sophia Loren<\/a> for the Golden Globes website.<\/p>\n

For my series of Golden Globe Moments, I featured Sophia Loren with Liza Minnelli at the 1977 ceremony, when she received her fourth special award as World Film Favorite. Click here<\/a> to see.<\/p>\n

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For the series \u201c80 years in 80 days\u201d celebrating Golden Globes 80th anniversary, I quoted Sophia Loren in my post about the movie Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow<\/em> (1964) directed by Vittorio De Sica and produced by Carlo Ponti, where she co-starred with Marcello Mastroianni. Click here<\/a> to read.<\/p>\n

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Sophia Loren (c) HFPA 1994<\/p><\/div>\n

Through my long career as a film journalist I interviewed Sophia Loren many times, I remember a one-on-one about Grumpier Old Men<\/em> <\/a>where she co-starred with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, because we spoke Italian. She was wearing a red dress and sporting a ring with a ruby, an emerald and diamonds, representing the three colors of the Italian flag, white, red and green (bianco, rosso e verde). She claimed to be \u201cvery proud of being Italian, because we are wonderful people, full of fantasy and creativity.\u201d As to what Americans like about ltalians, she mentioned \u201cspontaneity, a sense of humor.\u201d She added: \u201cIt was the dream of everybody in Italy, not only actors, to come to America and to make it, to really be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Elisa Leonelli, Sophia Loren \u00a9 HFPA 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

Click here<\/a> for one of my interviews published in the Italian weekly Gioia<\/p>\n

Happy birthday Sophia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Academy Museum presented the retrospective \u201cSophia Loren: La Diva di Napoli\u201d (November 7-30) to celebrate the 90th birthday of the Italian movie star. Included were The Gold of Naples (L\u2019oro di Napoli, 1954) directed by Vittorio DeSica, Too Bad … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[510],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/village.elisaleonelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/village.elisaleonelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/village.elisaleonelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/village.elisaleonelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/village.elisaleonelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5219"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/village.elisaleonelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5238,"href":"https:\/\/village.elisaleonelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions\/5238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/village.elisaleonelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/village.elisaleonelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/village.elisaleonelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}