Sophia Loren
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Sophia Loren
Already an Italian film star, Sophia Loren made
her Hollywood debut with Boy On A Dolphin with Alan Ladd before
making Pride And Passion with Cary Grant, a film star Sophia
Loren had adored as a fan. Apparently they had an affair with
Cary Grant falling madly in love with Loren, only for her
to choose to return to her former lover Carlo Ponti, whom
she married. A heart broken Cary Grant co-starred with Sophia
Loren a year later when they made the classic, Houseboat,
one of my favourite Cary Grant films, although my favourite
Sophia Loren film has to be the magnificent El Cid where she
stars with Charlton Heston. Peter Sellers is another big star
who fell in love with the gorgeous Sophia Loren when they
made The Millionairess together...
In 1994 Sophia Loren starred in the all-star
cast of Robert Altman's Prêt-à-Porter and was
brilliant in Grumpier Old Men with Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon
and Ann-Margret and starred in the musical Nine, released
in 2009, and is still looking great and performing... Sophia
Loren is a genuine Hollywood great with a magnificent list
of films to her name and what I think really stands out about
all the films in which she has starred with many of Hollywoods
greatest is that they are all great stories. Whilst researching
Sophia's career it has struck me that film makers today need
to get back to simply telling great stories, like Houseboat
and the epic El Cid, for instance?
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The Hollywood Movie History
The greats of the silent movie period included
Rudolf Valentino, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton,
Laurel & Hardy and a whole host of stars whose talents live
on in the many characters they portrayed. Jean Harlow is perhaps
the most successful of the stars who began their career in the
silent era and whose star continued in ascendancy into the talkies.
The western film genre has been the birth place for many great
film stars, not least of which is the Great John Wayne. Blockbuster
movies dominated the 80's and 90's with Silvester Stallone,
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis competing for the title
greatest action hero of them all... and then Matt Damon brought
Ludlum's character Jason Bourne to life all too vividly and
a whole new action hero was born.
And, although great women's roles are still all to rare, Vivien
Leigh's Scarlet O'Hara in Gone With The Wind, Marilyn Monroe's
Sugar Kane in Some Like It Hot, Grace Kelly as Tracy Lord in
High Society, Michelle Pfeifer in the Baker Boys and Julie Roberts
in Erin Brockovich are just a few great and memorable perfomances
I have experience by women in the movies...
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