(Rome) Italian star Sophia Loren, a cinema icon crowned with two Oscars in Hollywood, celebrates her 90th birthday in Rome on Friday evening, just a few days before French actress Brigitte Bardot, “two divas who redefined the feminine imagination of the 20th century.”e century” according to an Italian daily.
Born in the Eternal City on September 20, 1934, the unforgettable protagonist ofA special day (1977) will celebrate his 90th birthday at a private party held in a luxury hotel in the historic center.
After a tribute organized in a Roman cinema by the Cinecittà studios and the Minister of Culture, the actress will meet some 150 friends, colleagues and family members for a dinner on the terrace of the hotel, where she will also inaugurate a suite bearing her name, according to the newspaper. The Corriere della Sera.
For the occasion, Sophie Loren will be dressed by her great friend Giorgio Armani.
On Friday, the peninsula’s major dailies looked back at the extraordinary career of the brunette with almond-shaped eyes, who had as partners in Hollywood the greatest actors of the time, from Anthony Quinn to Clark Gable, including Marlon Brando, Cary Grant, Peter Sellers, John Wayne and Frank Sinatra…
“Sophia Loren, the myth is 90 years old”, is the title The Corrierewhile the Roman newspaper The Messenger pays tribute to the “(unexpected) icon of women’s rights”.
The Republic chose to associate her with her French colleague Brigitte Bardot, who will turn 90 on September 28. “Splendid nonagenarians,” praises the left-wing daily, which pays tribute to “the two divas who redefined the feminine imagination of the 20th centurye century “.
The actress also received a message from President Sergio Mattarella, who praised “her elegance, her charm and her inimitable qualities as an interpreter”, as well as “her extraordinary career, marked by the awarding of numerous national and international prizes”.
Sophia Loren’s 90th birthday will also be marked by a retrospective at the Lincoln Center in New York.
Public television Rai has planned several reruns of its films, including a restored version of the film on Rai3 on Friday evening. Italian wedding with Marcello Mastroianni, which combines several anniversaries: the 60th anniversary of the film, released in 1964, the centenary of Mastroianni’s birth (September 26, 1924) and the 50th anniversary of the death of its director Vittorio De Sica (1974).
Legend of 7e art, the actress, widowed since the death of her husband, the producer Carlo Ponti in January 2007, made a return to Italian small screens in 2010 in a TV film about her life in which she played her own mother.
In 2014, she published an autobiography for her 80th birthday entitled Yesterday, today and tomorrow.
His last film appearance was in 2020 in Life Aheadan adaptation of Romain Gary’s novel directed by his son Edoardo Ponti.
Thanks to this role, she won the award for best actress at the 2021 Italian Cinema Cesars.