Sophia Loren made history when she won the Oscar for ... instead, she stayed home in Rome with her husband, producer Carlo Ponti. “When I received an Oscar nomination in late February 1962 ...

Loren ascended to stardom when she attended the 1955 Cannes Film Festival and became the most-photographed guest at the event. The 1955 melodrama The River Girl stars Loren as a pregnant peasant ...

While Sophia Loren (90) and her mother, Romilda Villani, were looking for work in 1949 at Cinecittà, the film studios in Rome ...

Sophia Loren has had an ... Keep scrolling to meet Loren's family: Loren first met Ponti, an Italian director, when she was visiting Rome at age 16. He was 37 at the time. They wed 11 years ...

1. Her first disc gave her hope in the years immediately after World War Two Sophia Loren was born in Rome in 1934 but her early life was spent in Pozzuoli, near Naples in southern Italy ...

Sophia Loren has been in at least 100 movies over ... to a single mother in Rome. She grew up in a small apartment shared ...

“‘I’m going to stay right here in Rome, on my couch,’ I said to myself, and that is indeed what I did,” wrote Loren. Related: ...

Ahead of the 2025 Oscars, PEOPLE is looking back at past ceremonies and sharing behind-the-scenes stories from Hollywood's most prestigious event. Sophia Loren made history when she won the Oscar ...