Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone was born in the heyday of Mussolini, Rome 1934 to an engineer turned railway worker who may or may not have been descended from a Viscount and a piano teacher/local actress who he never married, hence leaving Loren and her mother in poverty.
Finalizing in local beauty contests under the assumed name Sofia Lazzaro brought her to the attention of film mogul Carlo Ponti, who changed her name and got her signed with Paramount for a string of big budget films that brought her to international prominence.
In an era defined by blowsy blondes like Monroe, Mansfield and Van Doren, Loren became one of the first and biggest of the far more naturalistic and earthy European competition, without question only surpassed by the even more existentially authentic Brigitte Bardot, who we quite deservedly devoted an entire show to.
Popular and prolific throughout the 1960s, she made a huge sensation with a handful of films she’d done with Vittorio de Sica, often in conjunction with male sex symbol of the era Marcello Mastrioanni, before marriage to Ponti and a conscious decision to more or less step away from cinema in the 1970s.
Join us as we discuss one of the world's most beloved sex symbols, the one and only Sophia Loren, only here on Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine!
Week 103 (8/10/23): Sex Italian Style: The Life and Films of Sophia Loren
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