A poignant time in Sophia's career, she was also invited to the Venice Film Festival that year, where she stayed in a lavish 15-century palazzo overlooking the Grand Canal. Still standing 70 years ...

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 and Zsa Zsa Gabor took turns on the deckchairs. This is Cannes Film Festival as it used to be, back in its super-elegant heyday. In the early days, Cannes wasn't so much about ...