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The old magic SOPHIA LOREN
"In spite of having the usual womanly defects," says Vittorio De Sica, "she is the only really spiritually honest woman I have ever known." Thus, Sophia Loren, a woman whose beauty is triumphantly greater than the sum of its parts, a poor Italian child who in the space of a few years has become not merely a world-wide object of desire but an actress of considerable depth. If our taste in love goddesses is shifting away from glamorous emptiness, then Sophia Loren is both product and instigator of that shift.
In effect, she is a Hollywood star, since nearly all of her films are financed by the American industry, but her best work has been done in the movies which the industry has filmed elsewhere. Run-away production threatens the existence of Hollywood as a film capital, but it may be the salvation of its vitality as a creative force. The films Sophia Loren made there are uniformly strained, cliche-ridden, and artificial. The pictures she has made elsewhere have, for the most part, allowed her to be her fiery, humorous, deeply sensual self.
She is seen best in a natural light. A natural wonder, after all, needs no re-enforcement by an architect. Says De Sica: "Sophia is a typical result of today's Italian cinema. She represents the artistic expression we look for, the lack of speculation based on effects. The American cinema, with all its mechanism, is no more than an industry. Art doesn't enter into it. Our cinema is more precarious, but our people have individualism."
It is a fact that Miss Loren retains her individuality yet manages to be a universal symbol of the desirability of the unaffected, completely natural woman. That is the key to her sudden emergence as the foremost leading lady of our time. She is the very opposite of what the European woman used to represent in the movies. There is nothing vampish about her, and parenthetically we may note that the European woman has, since the war, come to represent a new sexual ideal — unteasing directness. Miss Loren does not tease. One knows that she will keep her promise of delight.
The Fabulous Feline in a playful humor.
Loren as she appeared in It Happened in Naples, a fairy tale about an alley cat who dared look at The King — Clark Gable.
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