Hollywood Says: Benvenuto Sophia!
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Italian actress Sophia Loren, the star of three major Hollywood films: 20th’s “Boy on a Dolphin,” U.A.’s “Legion of the Lost,” “The Pride and the Passion” recently bounced off a plane in California to pay her first visit to the United States—a long-awaited event on the part of us Hollywoodites.
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The reception accorded one of Italy’s most exuberant and voluptuous exports (38-24-38) was as overwhelming as her dimensions. Sophia was the guest of honor at a succession of parties and easily lived up to her billing as the “most beautiful Italian girl since Venus.”
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Sophia, who is in Hollywood to make Para.’s “Desire Under the Elms” with Tony Perkins and Burl Ives has traveled a long way in a very short time. Eight years ago she was a dirty, half-starved Neapolitan street urchin. Today, she makes more money than any other movie star in the world.
It is a quote. PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE JULY 1957
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