Jayne Mansfield 1957
They didn’t know each other at all, but Loren and bombshell actress Jayne Mansfield will always be cosmically bonded by this legendary photo
Cannes Film Festival 1955
Sophia Loren had her breakout moment at 20 years old when she went to Cannes to support Vittorio De Sica’s The Gold of Naples,
…one of her earliest starring roles, and quickly realized she was the most photographed person at the festival that year
Houseboat 1958
Cary Grant and Loren had begun a romance while filming 1957’s The Pride and the Passion.
Though she declined his proposal for marriage, he continued to woo her during the making of this comedy.
Elvis Presley 1958
”I didn’t know Elvis at all, but we were both making films at Paramount and eating in the cafeteria and we both thought,
‘Oh, I want to meet you.’ And so I sat in his lap and we laughed like two kids.
Two Woman 1961
Loren was just 25 when she portrayed a shopkeeper enduring the horrors of World War II with her adolescent daughter in Vittorio De Sica’s landmark drama.
Oscar Glow 1962
”I look very happy next to my Oscar, no?” says Loren. ”And with the cigarette in my hand, of course, even though I don’t smoke. I never smoked.
At Home, with Oscar 1962
Marcello Mastroianni
”We did 14 films together,” says Loren of Mastroianni, her most beloved and popular costar, who died in 1996.
”We were in comedies like Too Bad She’s Bad and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (top), then later the people accepted us in dramas like Marriage, Italian Style and A Special Day