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...Best. Supervising all this with a watchful eye was Producer Carlo Ponti, who met Sophia when she first went to Rome, signed her to something the Italians call a "personal contract," helped shape her career, became her lover, then her husband (in 1957) by proxy marriage in Mexico, then technically her lover again -this year-when bigamy charges pressed by a religious zealot in Milan forced the couple to disavow their marriage. Carlo had been married before, and his divorce, also Mexican, is recognized in Italy by neither church nor state. "I give up," says Sophia. "I'm married...
...Honey. When the Italians saw all that-at Milan's world première of the Italian cinema's long-anticipated Boccaccio '70-they burst forth, some with catcalls and derisive whistles, others with cheers. Produced by Carlo Ponti, husband of Sophia Loren, Boccaccio '70 tells four stories. None derive from the Decameron that Giovanni Boccaccio wrote six centuries ago, but they are designed as modern reflections of Boccaccio's lusty humanism, and the '70 of the title is a wild hope that the film will still be running eight years from now. Judged...
Italian Cinemelon Sophia Loren, 27, had her day in court on two continents. In Rome, her fond discoverer, Producer Carlo Ponti, was racing to annul their marriage before they could be booked for bigamy (Italy does not recognize Ponti's divorce from his first wife). In New York Supreme Court, where Sophia was suing Bronston Productions, Inc. because she was billed below Charlton Heston on a Broadway sign ballyhooing El Cid. Justice Samuel Hofstadter chucked out her requested injunction. Said he: "Such vanity doubtless is due to the adulation which the public showers on the denizens of the entertainment...
...came to Rome. With Dino's success, the whole family has since abandoned spaghetti for films. De Laurentiis served a lighthearted war, demobilized himself as soon as the Americans landed, and went back to making movies with black-market film. In 1953 he and Co-Producer Carlo Ponti (who achieved added fame by marrying Sophia Loren) broke into the U.S. market with a stinker called Ulysses. Dino got his first Oscar for La Strada, and went on to make a lot of overblown bad movies and several good movies, such as Nights of Cabiria, for which he got another...
Film Producer Carlo Ponti and Actor Vittorio Gassman are waiting this week-and probably will be for many more-to hear whom they are married to, if anyone. So is a British petty officer named William, whose German wife Olga claimed she had taken a vow of chastity and refused to have sexual intercourse with him, but nevertheless presented him with a child. So is Nick, a Manhattan Sicilian, who claims the Mafia frightened him into marrying 14-year-old Tonina. Their marital fates-and those of many other Roman Catholics throughout the world-are being decided by Rome...