The legendary looks of Sophia Loren are underpinned by mystery. Like many classic movie stars, there’s stuff going on beneath the surface that people don’t know about. So when she revealed she kept personal diaries but burnt them, it set many a tongue wagging.
Not that Loren isn’t forthcoming about most aspects of her life, not least of which her relationship with Cary Grant. An autobiography in 2015 told a sizeable chunk of her story. And film fans should be grateful for that at least.
She was born Sofia Villani Scicolone in Rome, 1934. Her mother Romilda Villani was a piano tutor and actress, whose resemblance to Greta Garbo nearly saw her go to Hollywood as a body double. Unfortunately, her strict family forbade it.
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