Sophia Loren: From Humble Beginnings to Hollywood Legend (Paperback)

Sophia Loren, born Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone on September 20, 1934, in Rome, Italy, emerged from modest beginnings to become a Hollywood icon. Her parents, Romilda Villani and Riccardo Scicolone Murillo, had a tumultuous relationship. Her mother was a piano teacher with dreams of becoming an actress, while her father, a failed engineer, struggled to provide for the family. Despite Loren's claims of noble descent, her father refused to marry her mother, leaving them without financial support. Loren met her father only a few times in her life, forgiving but never forgetting his abandonment of her mother....