Forever Sophia

We are in Bologna for our favourite festival. One of the main programmes of Il Cinema Ritrovato 2022 is 'Forever Sophia', curated by Emiliano Morreale and Gian Luca Farinelli. Sophia Loren is a symbol of Italy's rebirth from the postwar period to the 1960s, going from national beauty queen to international glamour idol. Nowadays, La Loren is still one of the most recognisable Italian icons in the world. Morreale and Farinelli focus in 'Forever Sophia' on her filmography: the hidden treasures, forgotten gems and nuanced roles. And so do we in this post with postcards of 16 remarkable and unforgettable films starring Sophia Loren.

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Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano, no. 717. Photo: Minerva Film. Sophia Loren in Un giornata in pretura/A Day in Court (Steno, 1954).


Italian postcard in the series Gli Artisti di Napoli. Photo: Totò and Sophia Loren in Miseria e nobiltà/Misery and Nobility (Mario Mattoli, 1954).


French postcard by P.I. / Korès, no. 38. Photo: Constantin Film. Publicity still for La bella mugnaia/The Miller's Wife (Mario Camerini, 1955).


German postcard printed by Krüger, no. 902/304. Photo: Georg Michalke. Sophia Loren (1934) in her 42nd Italian film, La donna del fiume/The woman of the river (Mario Soldati, 1955).


German postcard. Photo Ufa. Publicity still for La fortuna di essere donna/What a Woman! (Alessandro Blasetti, 1956).


German press photo by ORF Fotodienst, 1988. Sophia Loren and Jorge Mistral in Boy on a Dolphin (Jean Negulesco, 1957).


Vintage photo. Jack Warden, Sophia Loren and Barbara Nichols in That Kind of Woman (Sidney Lumet, 1959).


Belgian postcard by Ets. Dagneaux & Co. for STAR, Chewing-gum. Sophia Loren and Eleonora Brown in La ciociara/Two Women (Vittorio De Sica, 1960).


German postcard by ISV, no. A 93. Photo: 20th Century Fox. Publicity still for the British film The Millionairess (Anthony Asquith, 1960).


Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. 516. Sophia Loren in Heller in Pink Tights (George Cukor, 1960).


Dutch postcard by Uitg. Takken, Utrecht, no. 4894. Photo: Hafbo. Publicity still from El Cid (Anthony Mann, 1961).


German postcard by Filmbilder-Vertrieb Ernst Freihoff, EssenParis, no. 5096. Photo: publicity still for Boccaccio '70 (Vittorio De Sica, 1962).


East-German postcard VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb, Berlin, no. 55/71, 1971. Sophia Loren in The Fall of the Roman Empire (Anthony Mann, 1964).


German postcard by pwe Verlag, München (Munich). Photo: Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in La moglie del prete/The Priest's Wife (Dino Risi, 1970).


East-German postcard by VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb, Berlin, no. 21/77. Sophia Loren in La pupa del gangster/Get Rita (Giorgio Capitani, 1975).


French postcard in the Collection Magie Noire by Éditions Hazan, Paris, 1997, no. 6521. Photo: Constant Anée. Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in Prêt-à-Porter (Robert Altman, 1994).