Stunning Old Photos of Sophia Loren

BY KEATON BELL Stunning Old Photos of Sophia Loren

{"selector":".scale-up-center","duration":"15s","interations":"1","easing":"ease-in-out","fill":"both","keyframes":[{"transform":"scale(1)"},{"transform":"scale(1.5)"}]} Loren during a promotional trip to New York City, 1954.

{"selector":".scale-up-center","duration":"15s","interations":"1","easing":"ease-in-out","fill":"both","keyframes":[{"transform":"scale(1)"},{"transform":"scale(1.5)"}]} Demonstrating her billiards skills for American soldiers, 1954.

{"selector":".scale-up-center","duration":"15s","interations":"1","easing":"ease-in-out","fill":"both","keyframes":[{"transform":"scale(1)"},{"transform":"scale(1.5)"}]} Arriving via water taxi to the 1955 Venice Film Festival.

{"selector":".scale-up-center","duration":"15s","interations":"1","easing":"ease-in-out","fill":"both","keyframes":[{"transform":"scale(1)"},{"transform":"scale(1.5)"}]} Loren ascended to stardom when she attended the 1955 Cannes Film Festival and became the most-photographed guest at the event.

{"selector":".scale-up-center","duration":"15s","interations":"1","easing":"ease-in-out","fill":"both","keyframes":[{"transform":"scale(1)"},{"transform":"scale(1.5)"}]} The 1955 melodrama The River Girl stars Loren as a pregnant peasant girl who seeks revenge against the lover who deserted her.

{"selector":".scale-up-center","duration":"15s","interations":"1","easing":"ease-in-out","fill":"both","keyframes":[{"transform":"scale(1)"},{"transform":"scale(1.5)"}]} Loren with With Jayne Mansfield at a 1957 dinner hosted by Paramount Pictures to welcome Loren to Hollywood.

{"selector":".scale-up-center","duration":"15s","interations":"1","easing":"ease-in-out","fill":"both","keyframes":[{"transform":"scale(1)"},{"transform":"scale(1.5)"}]} Loren in 1958.

{"selector":".scale-up-center","duration":"15s","interations":"1","easing":"ease-in-out","fill":"both","keyframes":[{"transform":"scale(1)"},{"transform":"scale(1.5)"}]} During a promotional trip to Los Angeles in 1958.

{"selector":".scale-up-center","duration":"15s","interations":"1","easing":"ease-in-out","fill":"both","keyframes":[{"transform":"scale(1)"},{"transform":"scale(1.5)"}]} On the set of Heller in Pig Tights , a 1960 Western filmed in lavish Technicolor.

{"selector":".scale-up-center","duration":"15s","interations":"1","easing":"ease-in-out","fill":"both","keyframes":[{"transform":"scale(1)"},{"transform":"scale(1.5)"}]} Loren on the set of the 1962 anthology Boccaccio ’70 , where she appeared in a segment directed by longtime collaborator Vittorio De Sica.

{"selector":".scale-up-center","duration":"15s","interations":"1","easing":"ease-in-out","fill":"both","keyframes":[{"transform":"scale(1)"},{"transform":"scale(1.5)"}]} Sporting a fur coat with a matching cap in Milan, 1962.

{"selector":".scale-up-center","duration":"15s","interations":"1","easing":"ease-in-out","fill":"both","keyframes":[{"transform":"scale(1)"},{"transform":"scale(1.5)"}]} Loren adjusting her stockings in a scene from 1963’s Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow .

{"selector":".scale-up-center","duration":"15s","interations":"1","easing":"ease-in-out","fill":"both","keyframes":[{"transform":"scale(1)"},{"transform":"scale(1.5)"}]} Loren in hair and make-up for her role as Lucilla in 1964’s The Fall of the Roman Empire .

{"selector":".scale-up-center","duration":"15s","interations":"1","easing":"ease-in-out","fill":"both","keyframes":[{"transform":"scale(1)"},{"transform":"scale(1.5)"}]} Loren on the set of 1964’s Matrimonio all'italiana (Marriage Italian Style) , directed by Vittorio De Sica.

{"selector":".scale-up-center","duration":"15s","interations":"1","easing":"ease-in-out","fill":"both","keyframes":[{"transform":"scale(1)"},{"transform":"scale(1.5)"}]} Arriving at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival.

{"selector":".scale-up-center","duration":"15s","interations":"1","easing":"ease-in-out","fill":"both","keyframes":[{"transform":"scale(1)"},{"transform":"scale(1.5)"}]} Loren, who once famously quipped “Everything you see I owe to spaghetti,” prepares an Italian dish, 1965.

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