Evening star. [volume], November 09, 1958, Page 10, Image 128

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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Sophia
Loren
Look what's happening to Italy’s
sultriest siren I She’s turning
into a slim, wise-cracking cowgirl I
Hollywood
Sophia Loren was intently watching a television
Western when I went to visit her recently. She was sit
ting in front of the TV set wearing blue jeans and an
open-neck man’s style shirt. Her bare feet were
propped on an ottoman and there were glasses and
plates on the table in front of her. Carlo Ponti, her
husband, was asleep in his chair. They were the per
fect picture of an American couple taking their ease on
a Saturday night though the glasses held wine and on
the plates was a pizza pie.
Obviously, Sophia, who three years ago was Italy's
biggest star, has now become almost as American as
Marilyn Monroe. I say “almost" because of the pizza
and wine in place of popcorn and beer.
A Long Way From Italy
Since “The Pride And The Passion,” which was her
first American film, Sophia Loren has starred in seven
more American pictures, receiving an average of
5300.000 each for those already finished and a total of
two million for her last three.
Today she’s a far cry from the girl I first met in 1953
in Madrid, filming “The Pride And The Passion."
In those days she was Continued on page 12
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