Sophia Loren Net Worth

Sophia Loren's Quotes

• Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.
• Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
• The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
• Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
• [on adultery] It's a game I never play.

Interesting Facts about Sophia Loren

1. Natural daughter of Romilda Villani by Riccardo Scicolone, son of Salvatore Louis, Marchese Scicolone, from a Noble family from Agrigento, Sicily, and wife Sofia Maria Aquilino, of Venetian origin, daughter of Angelo Aquilino and wife Alfonza Licata.
2. Mother of Carlo Ponti Jr. and Edoardo Ponti. Father is Carlo Ponti.
3. Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1991).
4. She had her marriage annulled to save Carlo Ponti from bigamy charges in Italy.
5. She served an 18-day prison sentence in Italy in 1982 for tax evasion.
6. She may have been the voluptuous sex goddess as an adult. But, until age 14 she was a skinny child and considered an ugly duckling. Her nickname was "The Stick" and "Toothpick".
7. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#25) (1995).
8. Derives great pleasure from rolling her bare feet over a wooden rolling pin while watching television.
9. She did not get along with Marlon Brando during the shooting of A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), especially after the day they were doing a love scene and he commented, "Did you know you have hairs up your nostrils?".
10. She performed two duets with Peter Sellers which were major hits in the UK pop chart. "Goodness Gracious Me" was released in 1960 and reached four and "Bangers and Mash" made it to the top 20 in 1961.
11. (September 17, 1957) Carlo Ponti obtained a Mexican divorce from his first wife and married Sophia by proxy, while she was in Hollywood, filming Houseboat (1958) - and dating co-star Cary Grant.
12. While filming Boy on a Dolphin (1957), Sophia was required to walk in a trench in order to give audiences the impression that her diminutive co-star, Alan Ladd, was taller than she.
13. Has one sister, Maria Scicolone (born 1938); and two half-brothers, Giuliano Scicolone (born 1943) and Giuseppe Scicolone (born 1946).
14. Suffered from stage fright and, therefore, never appeared in a theatrical production.
15. Had two miscarriages prior to her first-born son Carlo Ponti Jr. Because of these complications, she had to have complete bed rest throughout her first and second successful pregnancies.
16. Her mother won an all-Italy Greta Garbo lookalike contest run by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1932; but, being only 17 years old, her mother would not allow her to pursue her Hollywood dream. Soon after, she became pregnant with Sofia.
17. Her adopted surname is a slight variation of "Toren" after the Swedish actress Märta Torén.
18. Her mother named her after her paternal grandmother. When Sophia's father abandoned her, her maternal grandmother began calling her "Lella".
19. Won a Grammy Award in 2004 for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for her work in "Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Beintus" along with former US President Bill Clinton and former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev.
20. Was named #21 Actress on The American Film Institute's 50 Greatest Screen Legends.