Sophia Loren
Birthday: 1934-09-20
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Biography: Sophia Loren, OMRI (born Sofia Villani Scicolone; 20 September 1934) is an Italian actress. In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance. Loren has won 50 international awards, including an Oscar, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Laurel Award. Her other films include: Houseboat (1958), El Cid (1961), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), Marriage Italian Style (1964), A Special Day (1977). She has received critical and commercial success in movies for home box-office such as Courage (1986) and in American blockbusters such as Grumpier Old Men (1995), and Nine (2009). In 1994 she starred in Robert Altman's Ready to Wear, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination in 1995. The same year she received the Cecil B. de Mille award for lifetime achievements. In 1999, Loren was listed by the American Film Institute on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars as #21 of 25 American female screen legends of all time. In 2002, she was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) at its annual Anniversary Gala and was inducted into its Italian American Hall of Fame. In 2009, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized her as "Italy's Most Awarded Actress". In 1991, the Republic of France awarded her a Distinction of la Légion d'honneur (the Legion of Honor) with the grade of Chevalier (Knight). In 1997, Loren was invested Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic). In 2010, she was awarded the Praemium Imperiale by the Imperial Family of Japan on behalf of the Japan Art Association. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sophia Loren, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Houseboat
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children....
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Nine
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpo...
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Sunflower
After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. F...
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The Millionairess
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She...
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Prêt-à-Porter
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue an...
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Sophia Loren, a special destiny
With a maddening sensuality, the unforgettable actress of the film "A Special Day" embodies the gold...
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Saturday, Sunday and Monday
Rosa, a mature mother of several children, is concerned that her beloved husband Don Peppino is losi...
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A Countess from Hong Kong
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Jury of One
A desperate woman, whose son is on trial for murder, blackmails the judge and kidnaps his wife....
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Arabesque
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The Pride and the Passion
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Two Women
A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural...
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The Cassandra Crossing
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off t...
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Legend of the Lost
American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in...
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Operation Crossbow
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and ...
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A Special Day
Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day o...
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want....
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Heller in Pink Tights
Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe ho...
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More Than a Miracle
A fairy tale of the misadventures of a beautiful but temperamental Neapolitan peasant, Isabella, whe...
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I'll See You on the Balcony
Ignazio Panizza goes from one failure to the other until he meets a singer, Caterina, provided with ...
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Boy on a Dolphin
Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an anc...
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Grumpier Old Men
A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and...
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Five Miles to Midnight
American ex-Air Force man and current businessman Bob Macklin is married to the impoverished Italian...
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It Started in Naples
Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "bl...
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Aida
This Italian film version of Verdi's opera stars Sophia Loren on the screen, with Renata Tebaldi pro...
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Ghosts, Italian Style
Pasquale and Maria, husband and wife, live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent....
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Boccaccio '70
An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy ...
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1960
By presenting archive footage along with his own life story, filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores mediates ...
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Too Bad She's Bad
When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the t...
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Man of La Mancha
In the 16th century, poet, playwright and part-time actor Miguel de Cervantes has been arrested, tog...
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El Cid
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without comp...
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Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Young swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidna...
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Firepower
A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to...
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the mid...
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Untouchable
The inside story of the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein reveals how, over decades, he acquired and...
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Tab Hunter Confidential
Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his...
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Marriage Italian Style
During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who sp...
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Two Nights with Cleopatra
Sophia Loren plays a dual role, as both the sultry Queen of the Nile with a "man-a-night" appetite a...
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The Miller's Beautiful Wife
A lecherous governor of Naples in 1680 lusts after the wives of several peasants, particularly after...
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A Day in Court
A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and...
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A Breath of Scandal
A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire....
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Lady L
Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and ...
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Brass Target
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he...
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Along the Coast
Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Re...
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Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years
While silent-film star Charlie Chaplin may have charmed American audiences with the onscreen antics ...
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The Gold of Naples
A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza selle...
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Blood Feud
In pre-World War II Sicily, just as the fascists come to power, two men fall in love with the same w...
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Attila
Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto ...
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Scandal in Sorrento
Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwi...
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The Sign of Venus
Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with m...
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The Black Orchid
An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster's widow....
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Poverty and Nobility
Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him m...
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Hollywood Blue
A collection of vintage erotica from Hollywood movies is intercut with street interviews and newsree...
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Desire Under the Elms
Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion...
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The Key
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged All...
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Great Women: Sophia on Loren
Sophia Loren's story told by Loren herself. The greatest Italian movie star of all time describes he...
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Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers
After a long marriage, Maria and Jeffrey are now in crisis. Trying to keep the family together, she ...
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The Voyage
The charming Adriana gets sick after her husband's death. Her brother-in-law takes her on a journey ...
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Good Folk's Sunday
In the background of the football match Roma - Napoli different stories intertwine....
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Brief Encounter
Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief...
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Courage
A mother in Queens, New York, outraged when she discovers that her son is a drug addict, becomes an ...
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The Condemned of Altona
A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of th...
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The Priest's Wife
After discovering her boyfriend is married, a young woman attempts suicide but survives and falls fo...
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With Love, Sophia
Sophia puts the spotlight on her life with music. At her Rome villa, Peter Sellers is WWII Axis offi...
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Girlfriend in a Coma
Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and the pr...
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Judith
A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband....
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Madame
Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revoluti...
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That Kind of Woman
A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York....
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The Dream of Zorro
An old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no ...
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Soleil
During a happy evening, the famous professor Levy, one of the masters of cardiac surgery, collapses,...
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Sophia Loren in Rome
Sophia Loren, who was born in Rome and lived there as a child, returns to the city that will forever...
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Lady Liberty
An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she...
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Woman of the River
When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police off...
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Aurora
A single mother is trying to trace previous partners in order to help her fund a life changing opera...
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Francesca and Nunziata
At the beginning of the century, in Italy, a wealthy woman Francesca (Loren), adopts a poor little g...
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television ...
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Paris Hilton, Inc.
We are drowning in celebrity culture and certainly no tabloid topic has been as big as Paris Hilton....
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Notre Dame de la Croisette
A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on t...
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It's Him!... Yes! Yes!
Fernando, owner of a large chain store, suffers from worrying dreams: he seems to successfully court...
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Showman
Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter) directed this 53-minute documentary about movie tycoon Jose...
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Human Voice
Based on Jean Cocteau's iconic one-woman play of the same name; set against the backdrop of 1950 Nap...
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Looking for Sophia
Looking for Sophia is a documentary about Loren's remarkable life and career, featuring rare newsree...
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Neapolitan Carousel
Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples across the ages are loosely tied ...
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Sophia!
A documentary crossing all aspects of Sophia Loren's life: cinema, entertainment, private life, triu...
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Vittorio D.
A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and famil...
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White Sister
A strange love story between a devoted young nun and a young Marxist determined to help run the hosp...
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Quo Vadis
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...
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Girls Marked Danger
A police officer meets a girl who is near to falling into the net of shady individuals. To prevent t...
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Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
This 53-minute television special retraces Michael Jackson’s rise from child prodigy with the Jackso...
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Anthony Quinn: An Original
Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident....
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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...
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Behind the White Glasses
It is a musical portrait that shines a spotlight on unknown aspects of the creative, visionary and g...
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È arrivato l'accordatore
Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happ...
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Tototarzan
Roaming the vast jungles of Congo with his best friend, Bongo the gorilla, Antonio della Buffas, a m...
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Anna
The life story of a nun who started out as a bar singer, then took the veil because she couldn't cho...
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Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
This biopic about actress Sophia Loren covers her life from childhood through international stardom,...
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Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Documentary exploring the formidable life and career of Italian film star Sophia Loren. With intervi...
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The Anatomy of Love
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom....
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry....
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Angela
A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so s...
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Pilgrim of Love
In this farce Madame Dalia (Alda Mangini) is a mature countess/pseudo-spiritualist grifter who has r...
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The Life Ahead
In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who...
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Milano miliardaria
The Milanese Luigi Pizzigoni, photographer, and the Neapolitan barber Peppino Avallone, resident in ...
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Il mago per forza
In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cava...
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The Promise
During the absence of her husband, who left for a fishing cruise in the seas of China, Carmela falls...
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Africa Under The Sea
The troublesome daughter of an American millionaire accompanies him aboard his yacht on a deep sea d...
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La Rabbia
Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existentia...
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What a Woman!
A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a ...
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The Country of the Campanelli
A fake magician makes the inhabitants of a village believe that when one spouse betrays the other th...
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Il padrone del vapore
A rich American arrives in a little village in the mountains because he wants to advertise a drink h...
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Io sono il capataz
The young Uguccione is mistaken for Rascelito Villa called "C6", a dangerous revolutionary, and then...
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Mademoiselle C
A documentary focused on former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief and fashion stylist Carine Roitfeld....
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Acad...
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What Would Sophia Loren Do?
Nancy Vincenza Kulik, an Italian-American grandmother from Fort Lee, New Jersey, has experienced man...
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A Prince Called Toto
Totò, the mythical comedian of Italian stage and screen, was the illegitimate child of a noble man i...
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Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, un...
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Marcello, una vita dolce
After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1...
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Sophia Loren: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Edoardo Ponti interviews his mother, the Academy Award-winning actress Sophia Loren, in a show taped...
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Monument
In the fall of 1967, intermedia artists Ture Sjölander and Lars Weck collaborated with Bengt Modin, ...
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Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
A portrait of the mythical Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-96), a unique performer who was ...
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SuperTotò
After an introduction consisting of a series of close-ups of Totò, the anthology presents clips from...
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Lionpower from MGM
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's rel...
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Beautiful Like a Poem
I have a lot of interest and respect for classic cinema. I tried to make a film with at least 20 por...
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