Italian star Sophia Loren celebrates her 90th birthday in Rome

The birthday of the actress from “A Special Day” comes eight days before that of Brigitte Bardot, another icon, also born in 1934.

Italian actress Sophia Loren, a cinema icon and two-time Oscar winner, will celebrate her 90th birthday on Friday evening, September 20, in Rome. Born in 1934 in the Eternal City, the unforgettable protagonist ofA special day (1977) will celebrate this anniversary at a private party 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, she will meet around 150 friends, colleagues and family members for a dinner on the terrace of the hotel, where she will also inaugurate a suite in her name, according to the newspaper. The Corriere della SeraFor this occasion, Sophia Loren will be dressed by her long-time 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”title thus 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”salutes the left-wing daily, which pays tribute to the “two divas who redefined the feminine imagination of the 20th century”.

Public television Rai has announced several reruns of its films, including Friday evening on Rai 3 a restored version of Italian wedding with Marcello Mastroianni.

The film celebrates several anniversaries: the 60th anniversary of its release 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).

A legend of the 7th 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 the role of her own mother.

In 2014, to celebrate her 80th birthday, she published an autobiography entitled Yesterday, today and tomorrow. His last film appearance was in 2020 in Life Aheadan adaptation of Romain Gary’s novel directed by her son, Edoardo Ponti. Thanks to this role, she won the Best Actress Award at the David di Donatello in 2021, the equivalent of the French Césars.