Celebrate Italian film icon Sophia Loren's life in photos on her 90th birthday, Sept. 20, 2024.

1934 Sophia Loren was born on September 20, 1934. Before life on the big screen, life in Pozzuoli, a city close to Naples, was far from easy or glamorous. "Back then, we didn’t have anything. It ...

LIFE With Sophia Loren: Rare and Classic Photos of a Movie Legend 3 minute read Not published in LIFE. Sophia Loren, Italy, 1961. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images ...

Carlo died in 2007. "I miss him a lot," Loren told PEOPLE in 2009. "Sometimes I feel so lonely. It's not true that when time goes by, [pain] heals." The pair met at a beauty contest; at the time, "he ...

Sophia Loren with a newly born chicken in a scene from the film "C'era Una Volta" (Happily Ever After). The film is being shot on location at Padula, a small town in southern Italy on Sept. 21, 1966.

Sophia’s one and only marriage, which took place in Mexico in 1957, was to Italian film producer Carlo Ponti, who was 27 years her senior. They welcomed Carlo Ponti Jr. in December 1968 and ...

Tagging along on the 1961 boating trip off Naples , Eisie captured the actress looking positively giddy in the bow beside Carlo Ponti. But there's a funny story behind the photo -- hinted at ...

Sophia's two sons, Carlo Ponti Jr., 55, and Edoardo Ponti, 51, were by their mother's side at the hospital in Switzerland. Following the incident, Sophia's representative shared a statement on her ...

Happy Birthday, Sophia Loren: See Vivid Color Photos of the Actress in the 1960s 2 minute read Sophia Loren, 1969. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images ...

Sophia Loren turns 80 today, still celebrated as one of the screen's great, great beauties. The Italian icon's big day is being marked with a photography exhibition in her native Rome, where she ...