SOPHIA LOREN - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 281039

SOPHIA LOREN
Small 4x5¾ signed color photo of actor Sophia Loren in a black evening gown and holding an Academy Award
Photograph signed "Sophia Loren". Black ink notations on verso in unknown hand. Color, 4x5¾. In 1995, 61-year-old Italian beauty Loren, born Sofia Villani Scicolone in Rome, Italy in 1934, starred in Grumpier Old Men with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, proving that her beauty and sex appeal are timeless. The statuesque and sensuous Loren, born Sofia Villani Scicolone in Rome, Lazio, Italy in 1934, was an established star in Italy by 1954, competing with Gina Lollobrigida for audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. After arriving in Hollywood in 1958, Loren was cast in sexually charged roles in such films as Desire Under the Elms (1958), The Black Orchid (1958) and Heller in Pink Tights (1960). In 1960, she returned to Italy to star in a definitely unglamorous role in a most memorable film, Two Women, for which she received an Academy Award and the Cannes Festival Award. She also received a nomination for the 1965 Best Actress Oscar for portraying Filumena Marturano in Marriage Italian-Style (1964). In 1991, Sophia Loren was awarded a Special Academy Award "for a career rich with memorable performances that has added permanent luster to our art form". Her other films include Boy on a Dolphin (1957), It Started in Naples (1960), El Cid (1961) and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963). Random ink stains. Otherwise in fine condition.