Sophia Loren Archives - Chronicles 1983

Valentino Collection
Milan
Photo: Angelo Frontoni
11/83

Promoting Coty perfume
Bangkok
04/83

Sophia and Liza Minelli
Cannes Film Festival
Photo: Richard Melloul
07/05/83

VSD (France)
Cover: Angelo Frontoni
07/12/83

Photo session
Geneva
Photo:: Rob Lee

Cannes Film Festival
Photo: Richard Melloul
05/83

Zyloware
American Publicity

Italian Playboy cover
Alessandra Mussolini
07/83

Columbus Foundation Award
New York City
08/10/83

Médecine Beauté (France)
12/83

FILMS AND FILMING

FILM PROJECTS

Maria Callas

Movie project on the life of Greek opera singer Maria Callas, starring Sophia under the direction of Ken Russell and produced by Roger Gimble, is to start in July with locations in Venice, Milan and Rome. The project, announced in October 1982, which was to include Alessandra Mussolini as young Callas, aborts before starting.

Anna Karenina
The death of director George Cukor in January terminates another project Ponti had been discussing for a few years.

Rose Tattoo
New version of playwright Tennessee Williams Rose Tattoo for HBO with Burt Reynolds as co-star

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Today's Ten Best Dressed-Faces (USA)

Sophia is among the top ten list published by Elizabeth Arden's makeup and beauty authority, Glenn Roberts. February

Cannes Film Festival (France)

Honorific trophy for "representing the long and great tradition of love that unites the festival at Cannes and the Italian cinema", May 7

Columbus Award of Achievement (USA)
The Columbus Citizens Foundation, Award of Achievement in the Art in recognition of Sophia's "lifetime contribution to international cinema and for uplifting the image of the Italian-American". Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, October 8

Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum (UK)
Sophia ranks 3rd Most Beautiful Woman of History.

ENDORSEMENTS

Coty

Zyloware
From the international world of Sophia Loren... a prestige line of eye fashion for the lady who puts appearance above other considerations.

Blackgama Furs by Christian Dior Fourrure

PUBLIC APPEARANCES

Bangkok and Singapore - March 30
Sophia arrives in Bangkok with her two sons in order to promote her perfume. She later visits Hong Kong on April 1, and Singapore.

Cannes Film Festival - May 7

Sophia attends the Cannes Film Festival where she receives an award.

Tribute to Strasberg - May 23

Sophia attends fund-raising tribute to Lee Strasberg called With Heartfelt Thanks at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City.

Columbus Award of Achievement - October 8
The Columbus Citizens Foundation presents its Award of Achievement in the Art at a dinner gala in her honor at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

Coty Perfume Promo - October
New York City, October 8-10
Milwaukee - Gimbels, October 11-12
Chicago, Harlem Irving, October 18
Pittsburgh, Gimbels, October 13-14

MAGAZINE COVERS

Amica, Le Figaro Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Médecine Beauté,
Neue Revue, VSD.

TV SHOWS

Live at Five - October 6
Interview on WNBC show in the USA.

Late Night Show - October 6
Cameo appearance with host David Letterman going across the hallway to annoy Sophia, who is in the Live-at-Five make-up room.

P.M. Magazine - November 29
Sophia reveals her beauty secrets on a cameo appearance.

EDITOR'S NOTES

Creation and Development Conference - February 12-13
350 cultural luminaries, including Sophia, meet in Paris Sorbonne University for a two-day conferencewhere they share their views on cultural solutions to the world's economic crisis. The conference is paid forby François Mitterand's socialist government.

Sophia is an Arab - February
European press reports that Sophia is an Arab adopted from a Muslim family.

Summer at California Ranch - June
The whole Ponti family is back at the Concordia ranch in California. Edoardo takes a special program at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, which is run by Sophia's friend Anna Strasberg who took over after her husband's death in 1982.

Alessandra Poses for Playboy - July
Sophia's niece, Alessandra, is featured on the cover of Italian Playboy magazine.

Plastic Surgery - September
Rumors are circulating that Sophia underwent some breast reconstruction at the nimble hands of Dr. Rodolphe Troques, a Ponti's intimate friend and plastic surgeon in Paris.

Columbus Day Parade - October 9
Sophia is invited to be grand marshal of the annual Columbus Day Parade in New York City but the event is canceled because of the death of Terence Cardinal Cooke, cardinal of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York, on October 6.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - October
As Sophia is promoting her perfume in Philadelphia she visits the Children's Hospital where liver transplants are performed. Sophia had read about it in European newspapers and wanted to see the "wonderful things they do".

Christmas Holidays in California - December
Sophia spends Christmas and New Year's holidays at her California ranch and flies back to her other home in Geneva, via London, on January 8, 1984.

Antonella Murgia and Carlo Ponti
Gossips newspapers report that Ponti's long-time liaison with Dalida Di Lazzaro, which had gone on for 9 years, reportedly ends unhappily for Ponti. A German magazine runs at the same time of photograph of him out in public with 25-year old Antonella Murgia, who earlier had a part in Fatto di sangue (1978) and The Squeeze (1978), with Ponti as executive producer. The German magazine describes Murgia as the 73-year-old Ponti's special cure for the sexual weaknesses that come with old age and is qualifying Ponti as "tender, sensual, and very generous".

<>Palliative Care Unit
<>Participation in the creation of the first palliative aid unit in Switzerland at Hôpital Cantonal de Genève, Sophia's beloved institution since 1969.