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1. Her first disc gave her hope in the years immediately after World War Two Sophia Loren was born in Rome in 1934 but her early life was spent in Pozzuoli, near Naples in southern Italy ...

Loren ascended to stardom when she attended the 1955 Cannes Film Festival and became the most-photographed guest at the event. The 1955 melodrama The River Girl stars Loren as a pregnant peasant ...