FILMS AND FILMING

Milano Miliardaria
Italy - spring

Il mago per forza
Italy - summer

Era lui... sì ! sì !
Italy - summer

Il padrone del vapore
Italy - summer

Anna
Italy - summer

 È arrivato l'accordatore
Italy - fall

MOVIE PREMIERES

ITALY
Lebbra bianca
February 1
Io sono il capataz
February 28
Milano miliardaria
August 4
Il mago per forza
November 22
Era lui... sì ! sì !
November 23
Il padrone del vapore
  November 23
Anna
December 20

USA
Quo Vadis?
New York City (Capitol & Astor), November 8

PUBLIC APPEARANCES

Sophia Meets Carlo - September
Sophia meets Carlo Ponti in a Roman restaurant called Colle Oppio, an alfresco nightclub overlooking the Colosseum, on the night of Miss Lazio contest. Ponti, a lawyer and film producer in partnership with Dino De Laurentiis at the apex of the resurgent Rome film industry, is among the judges and sends over an aid to suggest Sophia takes part in the proceedings. Sophia comes second and agrees with Ponti for a meeting the next day at his Piazza Caraoeli office, which turns out to be a disaster.

EDITOR'S NOTES

Marriage Proposals

Sophia is barely 17 years old and receives through Sogno magazine hundreds of marriage proposals by admirers throughout Italy. She is starting to taste the success that cinema has not given her so far.

30,000 Liras per Film
Sophia's cachet for most of her appearances as an extra gives her 30,000 liras a day, which was around $48.00.

Carlo Ponti
Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica produces seven movies in 1951; two of them have Sophia as an extra:  Milano Miliardaria and Il padrone del vapore.

House on via Cosenza
With the money earned from the fumetti and extra roles Sophia, Romilda and Maria have enough money to move into a small furnished room on via Cosenza, between via Belluna and via Bari, in the north-eastern part of Rome. When Romilda notifies Riccardo Scicolone of their new address he promptly reports them to the police for living in Rome off illegal activities, namely prostitution. Sophia and Romilda have to go to the police station and prove their income is totally legal. "I have never in my life felt so degraded as I did that day, in the presence of the police, having to face my own father's insinuations."