A poignant time in Sophia's career, she was also invited to the Venice Film Festival that year, where she stayed in a lavish ...

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, with her ...

Sophia Loren's mother had the makings of a Hollywood starlet. An aspiring actress, Romilda Villani began her career by winning a Greta Garbo lookalike contest hosted by MGM studios in Italy.