by Sophia Loren
Cassel, Jean-Pierre, 271
Castellani, Renato, 181
Cat, The, see Jones, Ray
Cavalieri, Lina, 96
Cecchi D’Amico, Suso, 16, 74–75
Cerruti, Nino, 274
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 225
Champa, Jo, 306
Chaplin, Charlie, 42–43, 163, 196, 199–207, 226, 260
Chaplin, Oona (née O’Neill), 201–202, 205
Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian), 271
Chiari, Walter, 50
Cifariello, Antonio, 116
Cipi, see Ponti, Carlo Jr.
Cocteau, Jean, 73, 310–312
Comencini, Luigi, 50, 96
Continenza, Sandro, 74–75
Cooper, Gary, 122
Coppi, Fausto, 97
Cotillard, Marion, 298
Crawford, Joan, 46
Cruz, Penélope, 298
Crystal, Billy, 306
Cukor, George, 112, 132–133, 144, 260
Curtiz, Michael, 133
D
Dalla, Lucio, 266–267
Davis, Miles, 90
Day-Lewis, Daniel, 298
De Bernardi, Pietro, 181
De Carlo, Yvonne, 94
De Crescenzo, Luciano, 290
De Filippo, Eduardo, 45, 68, 74, 167, 179, 181–182, 289–290
De Filippo, Luca, 290
De Filippo, Luigi, 181
De Filippo, Luisa, 183
De Filippo, Peppino, 95, 162, 182
De Filippo, Titina, 179, 181–182
De Laurentiis, Dino, 46, 63, 83–84, 90, 121, 159
De Luca, Erri, 311
De Santis, Giuseppe, 84
De Sica, Christian, 183, 306
De Sica, Emilia, 183
De Sica, Manuel, 183
De Sica, Vittorio, 12, 16, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 42, 46, 46, 55, 61–66, 68, 69, 75–78, 83, 89, 91, 93–97, 132, 141, 144–148, 156, 159, 162–166, 179, 181–183, 186–187, 196, 203, 213, 223, 228, 230, 232–235, 269, 272–273, 288, 306
De Watteville, Hubert, 173–175, 217, 218–219, 227
Del Duca, brothers, 35
Del Poggio, Carla, 38
Dell’Anno, Paolino, 241–242
DeMille, Cecil B., 131, 296
Dench, Judi, 298
Deneuve, Catherine, 160
Depardieu, Gérard, 308
Dietrich, Marlene, 166
Dior, Christian, 199, 274
Domingo, Plácido, 227
Dominguín, Luis Miguel, 106
Donizetti, Gaetano, 50
Douglas, Kirk, 132
Drake, Betsy, 112
Dunaway, Faye, 160
Duranti, Doris, 57
E
Eisenstaedt, Alfred, 46
Ekberg, Anita, 162
Eliot, Thomas Stearns, 104
Elizabeth II, queen of England, 129
Ellington, Edward Kennedy (Duke), 90
Everett, Rupert, 271
F
Fallaci, Oriana, 157
Fellini, Federico, 38, 159, 162, 188, 294, 298, 307
Ferré, Gianfranco, 271
Ferrer, Mel, 129
Fiastri, Giuliana, 45, 190, 192
Fitzgerald, Ella, 18, 110
Flaiano, Ennio, 75, 84, 162
Foreman, Carl, 128–129
Forman, Miloš, 308
Fracassi, Clemente, 57
Franchina, Basilio, 16, 84, 86–90, 172, 174, 182, 193, 199, 211, 249
Freud, Sigmund, 227
Frost, David, 225
Furia, Giacomo, 67
G
Gabin, Jean, 234
Gable, Clark, 27, 133
Ganis, Sid, 306
Garbo, Greta, 4, 223, 259
García Márquez, Gabriel, 75
Gardner, Ava, 105, 110, 124
Garinei, Pietro, 91
Gassman, Vittorio, 45, 50, 84
Gaultier, Jean-Paul, 271
Gere, Richard, 273
Germi, Pietro, 180
Gershwin, George, 104
Giannini, Ettore, 93
Giannini, Giancarlo, 298
Giovannini, Sandro, 91
Girosi, Marcello, 121
Goddard, Paulette, 200
Grant, Barbara (née Harris), 114
Grant, Cary (Archibald Alexander Leach), 17–19, 21, 62, 103, 105, 107–114, 140, 212
Grant, Jennifer, 114
Gray, Romain, 207
Gualino, Riccardo, 46
Guerra, Tonino, 181
Guinness, Alec, 165, 207, 209, 308
Guttuso, Renato, 87
H
Hager, Leopold, 304
Hathaway, Henry, 119
Hayworth, Rita, 19, 107
Hepburn, Audrey, 23, 33, 129–130, 137
Hepburn, Katharine, 119, 259
Heston, Charlton, 161, 207
Hitler, Adolf (Führer), 235
Hohenstaufen, House of, 5
Holden, William, 126
Hopper, Hedda, 123
Hotchner, Aaron Edward, 284
Howard, Trevor, 126
I
Invernizio, Carolina, 37
J
Jackson, Michael, 263
Job, Enrico, 291
Jones, Jennifer, 19
Jones, Ray (The Cat), 211–213
K
Kelly, Gene, 122
Kelly, Grace, princess of Monaco, 105
Kerr, Deborah, 32
Kidman, Nicole, 298
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 161
Koscina, Sylva, 44
Kramer, Stanley, 105
L
La Capria, Raffaele, 291
Ladd, Alan, 115
Lancaster, Burt, 85
Lattuada, Alberto, 28, 46, 50
Laurie, Piper, 137
Lawrence, Marc, 50
Lean, David, 231
Lemper, Ute, 271
LeRoy, Mervyn, 31, 55
Levi-Montalcini, Rita, 259
Liala (Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti), 37
Liszt, Franz, 4
Litvak, Anatole, 163
Livia, cook for the Ponti household, 79, 211
Lo Verso, Enrico, 312
Lollobrigida, Gina, 36, 42, 44, 47, 75, 94–96
Lombardo, Goffredo, 55–56, 173
Loy, Nanni, 15
Lucherini, Enrico, 184
Lumet, Sidney, 132
M
Maggio, Giustina (Pupella), 290
Magnani, Anna, 94, 132, 144, 149, 310
Malden, Karl, 291, 293
Mangano, Silvana, 50, 68, 70, 84, 90, 94, 159
Mann, Abby, 163
Mansfield, Jayne, 122
Marceau, Marcel, 59
March, Frederic, 163
Marchesi, Marcello, 49
Marotta, Giuseppe, 16, 64, 66, 74, 163
Marshall, Rob, 298, 306
Martin, George, 211
Masina, Giulietta, 46, 294
Mastroianni, Barbara, 160
Mastroianni, Chiara, 160
Mastroianni, Ida, 155, 158
Mastroianni, Marcello, 14, 49, 56, 60, 69, 75–77, 83, 93, 98–99, 104, 155–162, 165–166, 170, 179, 184–188, 196, 223, 225, 232–236, 269–273, 289, 294–295
Mastroianni, Ottone, 155
Mastroianni, Ruggero, 155, 158
Mattia, family, 15
Mazzarella, Carlo, 11
McDowell, Malcolm, 308
Mercader, María, 183, 237, 272
Mèszáros, Andrea, 304–305
Metha, Mehli, 304
Metha, Zubin, 304
Metz, Vittorio, 49
Miller, Arthur, 105
Minervini, John, 121
Molino, Walter, 35
Mollica, Vincenzo, 36
Monicelli, Mario, 162
Monroe, Marilyn, 105, 164
Montand, Yves, 74, 132
Morante, Elsa, 142
Moravia, Alberto (A. Pincherle), 30, 74–75, 84, 141, 148, 149–150, 151
Moro, Aldo, 156
Muccardi, Conc
etta, 167
Mussolini, Alessandra, 36, 169, 188, 291
Mussolini, Benito (Duce), 30, 169, 187, 235–236
Mussolini, Elisabetta, 188
Mussolini, Romano, 169, 187–188
N
Negulesco, Jean, 116
Newman, Paul, 207–208, 224, 284
Ninni, see Bapst, Ruth
Niven, David, 207
Noiret, Philippe, 207
Nuvolari, Tazio, 172
O
O’Neill, Eugene, 123, 201
O’Toole, Peter, 225–227, 228, 230, 308
Olivier, Laurence, 291
Orsini Natale, Maria, 297
Oury, Gérard, 16, 132
Oury, Michéle (née Morgan), 16
P
Pacino, Al, 291
Page, Geraldine, 137
Palumbo, Vera, 37
Pampanini, Silvana, 50
Parsons, Louella, 123, 125
Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 84
Patellani, Federico, 43
Pavarotti, Luciano, 267
Peck, Gregory, 19, 42, 58, 165, 199, 207, 292
Pedersoli, Carlo (Bud Spencer), 32
Pender, Bob, 111
Perkins, Anthony, 123
Pertini, Sandro, 57, 245–246, 253
Pica, Tina, 27, 95, 97
Piccioni, Piero, 90
Pierangeli, Anna Maria, 91, 145
Pirandello, Luigi, 233
Ponti, Alexandre (Alex), 46, 223, 303, 312
Ponti, Beatrice, xii–xiii, 303, 318
Ponti, Carlo, xii, 15–16, 20, 23, 31, 40–41, 41, 44–49, 53–55, 57, 62–63, 83–84, 86, 89–90, 92–94, 103, 105, 112, 114, 117, 121, 124, 125–128, 129–131, 132–134, 137, 139, 140–141, 143–145, 147, 150, 163, 164, 169, 170–173, 179, 181, 183–184, 187–188, 189–193, 199, 201–202, 211–212, 217–218, 221–223, 228, 231–232, 234, 235–237, 241–242, 244, 261, 263, 266, 267, 293–294, 303, 305, 307
Ponti, Carlo Jr. (Cipi), xiii, 46, 48, 50–51, 54, 90, 114, 188, 217, 221, 232, 244, 261, 263–265, 281–282, 292–293, 303–304, 307
Ponti, Edoardo, xiii, 50–51, 63, 73, 90, 114, 175, 223, 225, 227–230, 232, 244, 261–266, 292, 293, 303–305, 307–313
Ponti, Guendalina, 45, 303, 312
Ponti, Leonardo, xiii, 303, 317–318
Ponti, Lucia, xiii, 303–305, 317–318
Ponti, Vittorio, xiii, 303, 317–318
Porter, Cole, 104
Power, Tyrone, 19, 107
Pratolini, Vasco, 74
Presley, Elvis, 227
Puzo, Mario, 264
Q
Quartetto Cetra, 74
Quinn, Anthony, 131–132
R
Rachelina, aunt of Sophia Loren, xiv
Rainier III Grimaldi, prince of Monaco, 105
Reda, Stefano, 37
Reed, Carol, 128
Reinhardt, Django, 90
Risi, Dino, 49, 95–96, 97, 156, 268
Rissone, Giuditta, 183
Robbins, Tim, 271
Roberts, Julia, 271
Roccardi, Giovanni, 55
Rocchetti, Goffredo, Sophia Loren’s makeup artist, 124
Romanoff, Mike, 121
Rondinella, Giacomo, 67
Rondinella, Luciano, 67
Rosi, Francesco, 171, 208
Rossellini, Renzo, 57
Rossellini, Roberto, 30, 46, 57, 87, 190
Rossi Drago, Eleonora, 50
Rota, Nino, 307
Rotunno, Peppino, 98
Ruet, Jacques, 37, 166
S
Sapienza, Maria Paola, 91
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 163
Scalfaro, Oscar Luigi, 296
Scarlatti, Domenico, 110
Scarpetta, Eduardo, 72, 183
Scarpetta, Rosa (née De Filippo), 183
Schell, Maximilian, 163
Schneider, Romy, 162
Schuberth, Emilio, 129, 274, 292
Scicolone, Giuliano, 29
Scicolone, Giuseppe, 29
Scicolone, Maria, 6, 9, 14–15, 17–18, 20, 28–29, 32, 33, 36, 38, 51, 53, 58, 91, 93, 110, 120–121, 123–124, 129, 140, 162, 180, 182, 187–188, 218, 237, 245, 266, 284, 285–287, 289, 291–292
Scicolone, Riccardo, 2, 3, 5–6, 8, 9, 28, 52, 58, 124, 237, 284, 237, 284
Scicolone, Sofia, 2–3, 20, 33, 52, 56, 58, 71, 245
Scola, Ettore, 235–237
Scotti, Tino, 49
Secchiaroli, David, 188
Secchiaroli, Tazio, 188–189
Sellers, Peter, 27, 207, 210–211
Serpe, Pino, 5, 27–28, 36, 308
Shakespeare, William, 104
Sharif, Claire (née Saada), 210
Sharif, Omar, 165–167, 171, 207–208
Shaw, George Bernard, 104, 210
Signoret, Simone, 132, 310
Sinatra, Frank, 58, 104–105, 107, 109–110, 124, 227, 287
Soldati, Mario, 16, 45, 84–85, 88, 93
Sordi, Alberto, 37, 74, 95
Sorvino, Mira, 308
Spain, Sarah, 103–104, 107
Spielberg, Steven, 295
Spinola, Matteo, 189
Stanwyck, Barbara, 122
Stoppa, Paolo, 16, 68, 144, 162
Strasberg, Anna, 264–265
Strasberg, Lee, 264
T
Tamiz, Majid, 285, 287, 292
Tati, Jacques, 163
Taylor, Elizabeth (Liz), 32, 126, 229–232
Taylor, Robert, 32
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilich, 307
Tebaldi, Renata, 51, 57, 97
Teresa of Calcutta (Agnese Gonxha of Bojaxhiu), 259
Torén, Märta, 56
Torres, Martha, 267
Toscani, Fedele, 43
Toscani, Oliviero, 43
Totò (Antonio De Curtis), 11, 68–74, 182, 306
Travolta, John, 306
Trovajoli, Armando, 90–91, 162, 307
Truman, Harry S., 246
Trussardi, Nicola, 271
Turturro, John, 264–265
U
Ustinov, Peter, 207–208, 213
V
Valentino (V. Garavani), 274, 293
Valeri, Franca, 95
Valli, Alida, 45
Vallone, Raf, 84, 95
Vancini, Florestano, 84
Verde, Dino, 91
Verdi, Giuseppe, 38, 57, 110
Vergani, Orio, 43
Victor Emmanuel II, king of Italy, 183
Vidor, King, 130
Villa, Claudio, 27
Villa, Pancho (Doroteo Arango), 38, 131
Villani, Dino, 7, 42
Villani, Domenico (Mimì), 4, 7–8, 149
Villani, Dora, 7, 8, 19, 27, 107, 149, 184–185, 245
Villani, family, 6–7, 8
Villani, Guido, 7, 15
Villani, Luisa (mammà), 3–4, 3–9, 11, 14–15, 17–20, 25, 27, 33, 51, 73, 91, 138, 149, 282, 284, 286, 289
Villani, Mario, 7, 15, 17
Villani, Romilda (mammina), 3–6, 6, 9–10, 9–10, 18–19, 24, 24–25, 27–29, 31–33, 32, 38, 39, 41, 46, 51–52, 58, 63, 70–71, 91, 93, 107, 120, 124, 129, 139–140, 146, 172, 182, 184–185, 193, 207, 209–210, 237, 245, 254, 281–285
Visconti, Luchino, 30, 46, 159, 162
Vita, Anna, 37
Vitali Marini, Palmira, 51
W
Wasserman, Dale, 225
Wayne, John, 117–118
Wertmüller, Lina, 74, 156, 288–289, 297–298
Wood, Natalie, 137
Wright, Henry, 37
Z
Zampa, Luigi, 46
Zaranella, wet-nurse of Sophia Loren, 7
Zavattini, Cesare, 16, 69, 144, 162–163
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