Sophia Loren
Born: 20 September 1934
Birthplace: Rome, Italy
Best Known As: Italian film queen and sex symbol
Name at birth: Sofia Scicolone
Sophia Loren was one of Italy's great 20th-century sex symbols. She hit it big in the movies in 1950s, thanks especially to film producer Carlo Ponti (whom she married in 1957). In 1961 she won an Oscar for the Italian wartime drama Two Women (La Ciociara). In addition to her va-va-voom image, Loren has always been a respected actress; in 1991 she won an honorary Oscar in recognition of her full body of work. Her films include The Pride and the Passion (1957, with Frank Sinatra), It Started in Naples (1960, with Clark Gable) and El Cid (1961, with Charlton Heston and based on the life of Spanish legend El Cid).
Loren is sometimes compared with another Italian star of the era, Gina Lollobrigida.
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Shirley MacLaine
Born: 24 April 1934
Birthplace: Richmond, Virginia
Best Known As: Oscar-winning star of Terms of Endearment
Name at birth: Shirley MacLane Beaty
MacLaine won a best actress Oscar for playing quirky matriarch Aurora Greenway in the tearjerker Terms of Endearment (1983, with Deborah Winger and Jack Nicholson). MacLaine got her start as a Broadway chorine in the 1950s, eventually moving to Hollywood to began a film career. She was most active in the 1960s, with roles ranging from a charming Parisian prostitute in Irma la Douce (1963, with Jack Lemmon) to a faux-nun in Two Mules for Sister Sara (1969, with Clint Eastwood). In the 1980s MacLaine became known for her faith in reincarnation, angels, the power of crystals and other unorthodox "New Age" beliefs. (As MacLaine has stated on her own website, " I believe that when we have shed a physical body, our spirit can re-visit the physical plane of existence.") She addressed these topics at length in her books Out On a Limb (1983) and Dancing in the Light (1986). In all she has been nominated five times for acting Academy Awards, for Some Came Running (1958), The Apartment (1960), Irma la Douce, The Turning Point (1977, with Anne Bancroft) and Terms of Endearment (her only win).
MacLaine was nominated for a best documentary Oscar as a producer and star of The Other Half of the Sky, her memoir of a trip to China... She is the older sister of actor Warren Beatty; their family name is spelled 'Beaty' with one 't'... MacLaine's Oscar acceptance speech for Terms of Endearment ended with the famously cheerful declaration: "I deserve this!"... The 1996 sequel to Terms of Endearment was titled The Evening Star... Among her other films is the 1969 Bob Fosse film Sweet Charity, with MacLaine in the role that Fosse's wife Gwen Verdon originated on Broadway... It's true: MacLaine has suggested that in a past life she had a love affair with the emperor Charlemagne.
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