Is Sophia Loren still considered the best Italian actress ever?
Sophia Loren Birth name Sofia Villani Scicolone Born September 20, 1934 (1934-09-20) (age 74) Rome, Italy Other name(s) Sofia Lazzaro Sofia Scicolone Sophia LorenSophia Loren (born September 20, 1934) is a motion picture and stage, Academy Award-winning actress and sex symbol. She is widely considered to be the most popular Italian actress of her time. Biography Career By the late 1950s, Loren’s star had begun to rise in Hollywood, with films such as 1957’s Boy on a Dolphin and The Pride and the Passion in which she co-starred with Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant. Grant, reportedly, fell so deeply in love with Loren that he ardently proposed marriage, despite her obvious loyalty to Carlo Ponti and Grant’s own union with actress and writer Betsy Drake. It is possible that Loren had an affair with Grant but how serious their relationship was is now known only to her. Stargazers and celebrity biographers consider the putative Loren-Grant romance to be one of the more mysterious and elusive r
