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Sophia Loren has a pat on the cheek for her husband, film producer Carlo Ponti, and a smile for her son, Carlo Ponti Jr., as the baby makes his first public appearance in Cantonal Hospital here. The 34-year-old actress gave birth to the child, her first, on Dec. 29th.
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So, in early 1968, when I got pregnant for the third time, I moved to Geneva. I chose a hotel close to the doctor’s office, took to my bed and waited patiently for him to perform a miracle
He concluded that my body wasn’t producing enough oestrogen, which was stopping the egg from attaching to the uterus. This, however, was easily solved with oestrogen injections.
Meanwhile, I had months of forced idleness on the 18th floor of the Hotel Intercontinental.
To distract myself, I spent hours recreating the recipes from my Naples childhood — and years later, published them as a cookbook. Finally the day came when I was due to have a C-section. I hadn’t slept a wink the night before; the truth is that I didn’t want my pregnancy to end.
And I was scared. I didn’t want to share this child that was all mine with anyone else. A few hours later, Carlo Jr. was born — the greatest, sweetest, most indescribable joy I had ever experienced. I was completely overcome by emotion when I held him in my arms.
Afraid that I might wake up from my marvellous dream, I proceeded to shut myself off from the world. It was warm in my hospital room, and I felt safe, me and Carlo Jr, alone together, in a soft cocoon of endless gazes and caresses.
As the days passed, I was afraid to leave my room, worried that my little one might catch a cold. And I simply didn’t feel like going home.
So I grew increasingly rooted to my clean white room, where I was shielded from all danger, and refused to think about tomorrow.
After 50 days, which seemed to go by in a flash, my doctor told me: ‘Sophia, you can’t stay here for ever. Life is waiting for the two of you out there …’ I just looked at him, terrified at the thought.
But, finally, after nine months of barely being able to move, and almost two months of cocoon-like existence in my hospital room, I agreed to go forth and face reality.
From ‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’, Sophia Loren's Memories
Anne Bancroft, in her Greenwich village apartment, as she reacted to the news of winning the Oscar.
Jennifer Jones and William Holden in ‘Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing’, 1955.
Elizabeth Taylor as Amy March in ‘Little Women’, 1949.
Pier Angeli photographed by Richard C. Miller at home, Los Angeles, California, 1957.
David Nivens is shown during a rehearsal scene for The Pink Panther. He is shown wearing sunglasses, a blue jacket with black turtleneck.
Niven recalled in one of his funniest anecdotes that his private parts got frostbitten during the skiing scene (wearing the studio skiing costume with little underneath, according to his autobiography “The Moon’s a Balloon”), which was shot on an extremely cold day in the Italian Alps. He said that, reasoning that alcohol made you feel warm, he dipped the “parts” in a glass of whiskey. He said that it worked but the pain was excruciating. (x)
Jane Fonda and Robert Redford in ‘Barefoot in the Park’, 1967.
Lee Marvin and Gloria Grahame in ‘The Big Heat’, 1953.
Paul Muni and Ann Dvorak in ‘Scarface: The Shame of the Nation’, 1932.
Tippi Hedren in ‘Marnie’, 1964.
Gene Wilder in ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’, 1971.
Al Pacino and Robert De Niro on the set of ‘The Godfather - Part II’, 1974.
Kim Novak on the set of ‘Vertigo’, 1958.
Marilyn Monroe on the set of ‘Some Like It Hot’, 1959.
Deborah Kerr photographed for ‘The Innocents’, 1961.
Rita Hayworth and Marlene Dietrich depart for Hollywood after a New York visit, 1941.
Eighteen year old Roddy McDowell boasts of many hobbies, as many as any of Hollywood stars. Roddy’s collection of fan magazines, as seen here, dates back to 1911 and he prizes them very much.
The Bride’s yellow outfit was inspired by the outfit worn by Bruce Lee in his final film, ‘Game of Death’, 1978.
(..) Robert Clouse, the director of Enter the Dragon, together with Golden Harvest, revived Lee’s unfinished film Game of Death. Lee had shot over 100 minutes of footage, including out-takes, for Game of Death before shooting was stopped to allow him to work on Enter the Dragon. In addition to Abdul-Jabbar, George Lazenby, Hapkido master Ji Han-Jae, and another of Lee’s students, Dan Inosanto, were also to appear in the film, which was to culminate in Lee’s character, Hai Tien (clad in the now-famous yellow track suit) taking on a series of different challengers on each floor as they make their way through a five-level pagoda. In a controversial move, Robert Clouse finished the film using a look-alike and archive footage of Lee from his other films with a new storyline and cast, which was released in 1978. However, the cobbled-together film contained only fifteen minutes of actual footage of Lee (he had printed many unsuccessful takes) while the rest had a Lee look-alike, Kim Tai Chung, and Yuen Biao as stunt double. The unused footage Lee had filmed was recovered 22 years later and included in the documentary Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey.
Rachel Ward and Richard Chamberlain in ‘The Thorn Birds’, 1983.
Ali MacGraw wearing bikini stretched out on sand sun bathing. Photo by John Bryson.
I’ve never sought success in order to get fame and money; it’s the talent and the passion that count in success. - Ingrid Bergman
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans look at a script while rehearsing backstage on a film set. The couple made thirty-five films together and founded their own production company, Roy Rogers Productions. They created The Roy Rogers Show (1951–1957), The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show (1962), and Happy Trails Theatre (1986–1989).
Grace Kelly attends the Golden Globe Awards ceremony at the Cocoanut Grove Restaurant in Los Angeles, 23rd February 1956. She won the award for the World Film Favorite (Female).
Tippi Hedren applies make-up in preparation for a photo shoot in Genevieve Naylor’s New York photo studio.
Mae “Diamond Lil” West latest of the White Way stars to crash the Hollywood Firmament, as she stepped off the Twentieth Century on her return to a little old New York from California.
Diamond Lil is a 1928 play by American actress and playwright Mae West. Prior to Diamond Lil, she had written a number of plays that were closed down due to either poor ticket sales or censorship issues with the establishments of the time, despite the fact that many high-ranking officials attended these plays. Diamond Lil, about a racy woman in the 1890s, was her first major Broadway success, and was the basis for her character Lady Lou in her 1933 film She Done Him Wrong.
Oliva De Havilland, James Cagney and Rita Hayworth in a publicity still from “The Strawberry Blonde”, 1941;
Doris Day, James Cagney and Virginia Mayo in a scene from the movie “The West Point Story”, 1950.
Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner on the set of ‘The Killers’, 1946.
Members of the cast of the TV western series ‘Bonanza’, circa 1965. Left to right: Dan Blocker as Eric 'Hoss’ Cartwright, Lorne Greene as Ben Cartwright, Pernell Roberts as Adam Cartwright and Michael Landon as Joseph 'Little Joe’ Cartwright.
Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman photographed for “Notorious”, 1946.
Some day I will show all the motherfuckers who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I wish I had a really bad car accident so my face would get smashed up and I’d look like Eddie Constantine. It’s so tiring being everybody’s darling boy at my age … I know I’ve been lucky, that things have gone almost too smoothly career-wise. What I resent about it is that it is all built on a pretty face. Hollywood was such a crazy place, made you feel terrific at times. You felt you could achieve anything because you were treated like a god. But it sure was a bum place too. When you saw the new faces queuing up, like bloody comets, who would strike the screen and leave an old worshiped star obsolete in no time. Nobody will ever understand what this did to people, how it destroyed them, made them hollow … Jesus Christ, I don’t want to become an ageless matinée idol, having to keep up my looks, lift my chin like Marlene and never dare smile in case my face cracks. - Tyrone Power
I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world. - Errol Flynn
Veronica Lake, 1942.
‘Black Narcissus’, 1947.
Peter O'Toole as T. E. Lawrence in ‘Lawrence Of Arabia’, 1962.
Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence CB DSO (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer, who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title used for the 1962 film based on his wartime activities.
Rita Hayworth + Color
Bette Davis photographed for ‘The Old Maid’, 1939.
