Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1963)

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Ponti, “ Some day we will have our own bambino!” said as much. “Some day I will have a son,” she once said. “I would like very much to have a son, I wish it with all my womanly heart — the heart of a southern Italian woman. But I can’t afford to have him now. I know what it means to have an illegitimate birth. How could I inflict such suffering on an innocent creature, my son?” No, this was Maria’s baby. And Maria’s good luck. Even before this, Maria was the lucky one. Her luck began, rightly enough, with her wedding in March of 1962. Sophia remembered. . . . Maria, radiant, beautiful— walked slowly down the aisle of the carnation-strewn Church of St. Anthony to stand ( Continued on page 72) 35