SOPHIA LOREN - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 295010

SOPHIA LOREN
Shown in a still from Desire Under the Elms
Photograph signed: "Sophia Loren". B/w, 8x10, captioned at lower margin. SOPHIA LOREN (born 1934), statuesque and sensuous, 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, The Black Orchid and Heller in Pink Tights. In 1961, 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. 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 The Black Orchid, El Cid, Boy on a Dolphin, It Started in Naples and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. In 1995, 61-year-old Italian beauty Sophia Loren starred in Grumpier Old Men with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, proving that her beauty and sex appeal are timeless. Desire Under the Elms, which debuted in 1924 as a play by Eugene O'Neill, re-cast a Greek tragedy in an American setting. Sophia Loren starred in the 1958 film as a woman married to an older man (Burl Ives) while adulterously involved with his son (Anthony Perkins). Minor creases at edges and corners. Lightly toned. Otherwise, fine condition.