For Sophia Loren, the road to motherhood was far from easy. The actress – whose "desire to have children had become an obsession" by the time she was 29 – experienced two miscarriages before ...

Her first disc gave her hope in the years immediately after World War Two Sophia Loren was born in Rome in ... anything that she was saying and Ella's voice represented America to me, and to ...

Sophia Loren in 1965 (left) and with her Oscar (right) after winning best actress in 1962.