Posted on 10/19/2006 11:40:01 PM PDT by MadIvan
Thanks for the pics, GEM.
BUMP for Gina.
Whoo hoo!
You go girl....
(my hero)
She's aged pretty well, actually. If the dude loves her, then more power to them, I say.
We need MORE female immigrants from Italy!
I have heard that Sophia Loren has not undergone any cosmetic surgery.
was one of the most gracious and adorable people in films and was very moved to learn of how difficult her beginnings were. From IMDb.com, "While vacationing with her mother in Arnhem, Holland, Hitler's army took over the town. It was here that she fell on hard times during the Nazi occupation. Audrey suffered from depression and malnutrition. Was fluent in English, Spanish, French, Dutch/Flemish and Italian. She confessed to eating tulip bulbs and tried to bake grass into bread during the hard days of World War II. Was trained as a dental assistant before making it big. Broke her back during filming of a horse-riding scene in The Unforgiven (1960). Henry Mancini said of her: "'Moon River' was written for her. No one else had ever understood it so completely. There have been more than a thousand versions of 'Moon River', but hers is inquestionably the greatest".Turned down a role in the film The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) because, as a young girl in Holland during the war, she had witnessed Nazi soldiers publicly executing people in the streets and herding Jews onto railroad cars to be sent to the death camps. She said that participating in the film would bring back too many painful memories for her. During World War II, 16-year-old Audrey was a volunteer nurse in a Dutch hospital. During the battle of Arnhem, Hepburn's hospital received many wounded Allied soldiers. One of the injured soldiers young Audrey helped nurse back to health was a young British paratrooper - and future director - named Terence Young. More than 20 years later, Young directed Hepburn in Wait Until Dark (1967). In Arnhem, Holland, during the Second World War, she worked with the Dutch Underground, giving ballet performances to collect donations for the anti-Nazi effort. In 1996, the British magazine Harpers & Queen conducted a pool to find the most fascinating women of our time. She was in the number one spot. Voted #1 in TheAge.com's Top 100: Natural Beauties of all time.
""If I were to write a biography, it would start like this: I was born in Brussels, Belgium, on May 4, 1929... and I died six weeks later." (relating her severe coughing attack when she was six-weeks old, slowly turning blue and finally stopping breathing until her mother's prayers and spanking brought her back to life)."
She was born on my birthday but preceded me by quite a few years.
I once saw Sophia walk into Elaine's on the arm of........Woody Allen.
btw...I no longer watch Dancing...the music thing really turned me off.
He's probably going to milk her for all the money she's got and marry someone younger once she kicks the bucket. Pathetic.
Interesting. Thanks.
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