Word: sophia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number into a bell ringer, and gives the comedy its zestiest scene when she punctures her employer's vincible mettle with a few white-hot verbal thrusts. As a footnote to Julie's new success, the film offers a wry bit of casting: one minor character, Sister Sophia, is played by Marni Nixon, who dubbed in some of Audrey Hepburn's songs in My Fair Lady...
...movie Divorce-Italian Style, there is virtually no way for a man to shed his wife in divorceless Italy. Film Producer Carlo Ponti made a game try when he got a legal separation from his wife, arranged a Mexican divorce, and then went through a Mexican marriage with Actress Sophia Loren. But Italian authorities countered that gambit with ease: they recognized the marriage, not the divorce, and they hit Ponti with a bigamy charge. Sending lawyers to the defense on two continents, Ponti got a Mexican court to void his marriage to Sophia, and he asked the courts at home...
...court did not charge him with the crime. Almost as if he had expected the ruling, the producer had already started down another escape route: he has become a French citizen on the theory that the move will allow him to divorce his wife under French law and remarry Sophia...
...French Ponti, however, does not automatically cease being Italian. As it happens, Italy recognizes dual citizenship; some Italians (such as ex-soldiers) can never renounce their citizenship. If Italian courts fail to agree that Ponti has become a 100% Frenchman, marriage to Sophia may bring up the bigamy charge once more. Moreover, if he divorces his first wife in France, she will still be his legal wife in Italy...
Swathed in furs she viewed the Bay of Angels in wintry Nice. And for Sophia Loren, 30, her dark glasses must have seemed rose-colored, because Producer Carlo Ponti, 52, has been granted French citizenship, and has carte blanche in France to marry her. He wed her before, but was forced to annul the marriage when their native Italy threatened bigamy proceedings; it does not recognize his 1957 Mexican divorce from his first wife. Carlo and Sophia celebrated with a tricolored cake, and Ponti displayed Gallic finesse when asked if they would remarry. "It is not excluded," said...