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Doors opened. The big apartment began filling like a leaky boat. Sophia pirouetted around wildly in a white nightie and green peignoir, kissing Ponti, kissing her mother, her sister, her director Vittorio De Sica,* even one or two paparazzi. Back in Hollywood, M.C. Bob Hope curled a lip slightly and said: "It must be wonderful to have talent enough to just send...
...performance in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women, she has been nominated as the "Best Actress of 1961." She is the first person ever nominated for a top Oscar for a performance in a foreign-language film...
...beggars the cheap criticism that she is merely playing herself, she can put her hands on her hips, cock her head, turn bargaining eyes toward the camera and drench an audience in the sunshine and sadness, shrugs, shouts, laughter and song of southern Italy. She does so for De Sica in Two Women-hair blowing in her eyes, dressed sexlessly in threadbare clothes, pouting, cursing, writing chapters in the air with her hands. She plays a ferociously protective mother who is helpless to prevent her daughter's rape by Moroccan soldiers. It is a brutal but honest film...
...temperament. Usually with such beauty, there is worry about how looks are. She doesn't bother about looks. She's interested in acting." Natural Light. Sophia's depth as an actress has been the discovery of good directors, and none knows her better than Vittorio De Sica, who understands and intensifies the natural light that shines from her. "In spite of having the usual womanly defects," says De Sica chivalrously, "she is the only really spiritually honest woman I have ever known." From Gold of Naples to Two Women and her episode in Boccaccio...
...Sophia is a typical result of today's Italian cinema,'' says De Sica. "She rep resents the artistic expression that we look for, the lack of speculation based on effects. The American cinema, with all its mechanism, is no more than an industry...