Sophia loren biography book

In her first memoir, the Academy Award–winning actress Sophia Loren tells her incredible life story from the struggles of her childhood in war-torn Naples.

A biography of the legendary actress examines her impoverished childhood in fascist Italy, her screen debut as a teenager, and her Oscar-winning performance.

But as the actress's memoir, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Atria), details, her life hasn't been all sex and spumoni.

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Sophia Loren: A Biography

February 7, 2011

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Sophia Loren: A Biography

Warren G. Harris. Simon & Schuster, $24.5 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-684-80273-2

The tempestuous life of Italian film star and international sex symbol Sophia Loren is given a thorough but not very insightful treatment by veteran celebrity biographer Harris (Lucy & Desi; Cary Grant). The book's strongest section is the opening, as Harris recounts the well-known but still fascinating story of Loren's illegitimate birth as Sofia Scicolone--she was universally considered an ugly baby--as well as her hardscrabble upbringing in Mussolini's Italy, her terrifying wartime years in Naples and her discovery by producer Carlo Ponti, who later became her husband. Without Loren's participation, the author is forced to rely on earlier biographies and magazine interviews. As a result, he writes of the affairs Loren might have had with co-stars Cary Grant and Peter Sellers, while admitting that, in the end, he really doesn't know. Perhaps to make up for this, there's a bit too much about Ponti's producing career, but even there the author never really comes to grip with the fact that, under Ponti's guidance, Loren, apart from a few films (most notably Two Women, which brought her an Oscar), has mostly appeared in forgettable movies. Still, the book is enlivened by interv

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Yesterday, Today, Tomorrowis Sophia Loren's definitive autobiography, revealing her personal journey from the hardship of her childhood in Naples to her life as a screen legend, sharing stories of work, love, and family. Each chapter begins with a letter, a document, a photograph, or object that prompts her reminiscences. In her own words, these memoirs originated as, "Unpublished memories, curious anecdotes, tiny secrets told, all of which spring from a box found by chance, a precious treasure trove filled with emotions, experiences, adventures." In her incredible life story, Loren vividly recounts her difficult childhood in Naples during World War II, remembers her parents and their tempestuous relationship, and reveals the pain of growing up in her grandparents' house with her single, unmarried mother and younger sister. She tells how she got her start by winning a beauty pageant ('La regina del mare') and how her ambition drove her success in cinema before revealing the influence of the producer Carlo Ponti, who cast her in her early roles and later became her husband. Loren takes us behind the scenes of the movies, her early stardom and move to Hollywood revealing intimate and never before shared stories of her famed costars: Brando, Newman, Burton, Peck, Hes