Sophia Loren Archives - Chronicles 1985

"At age 50, Sophia Loren continues to be one of the world's most acclaimed beauties. No lines etch a complexion as polished as fine marble.
No gray streaks the russet hair that falls in soft waves to her shoulders." – Mary Martin Niepold, Philadelphia Inquirer.

Oggi (Italy)
24/04/85

Photo Session
Beverly Hills

Aurora
Italian poster

Women & Beauty
German edition

Williams Island
Publicity

Milano Central train station
Milan
15/01/85

Nous Deux Flash (France)
01/85

FILMS AND FILMING

FILM PROJECTS

Leaving Home
Film adaptation of the Arthur Cavanaugh novel to be filmed in Stockholm, Sweden, during the fall. Hall Bartlett produces the film which stars Sophia, her son Edoardo and Julie Harris in the role of Sophia's half sister. The film is never made.

MOVIE PREMIERES

ITALY
Aurora
Milan, January 16

ENDORSEMENTS

Zyloware

Coty

Gallo Pasta

Williams Island

PUBLIC APPEARANCES

Aurora Premiere - January 16
Sophia boards a train in Geneva and travels to Milan in order to attend the preview of the Italian version of her new film Aurora, which is presented at Teatro Apollo.

Visit to Pozzuoli - February 8
Sophia is in Pozzuoli to attend an official ceremony at the Italian Air Force Academy and to see family members for one weekend after many years of absence. "I know that leaving home is a terrible wound that nothing is this world can heal. But one has to roll up the sleeves and rebuild."

Perfume Promotion in Cleveland - March
March 10 - Cleveland
March 22 - Philadelphia, Strawbridge and Clothier's

Dinner at the US Embassy - May 3
Sophia is among the guests - along with the Reagan, Fiat's Gianni Agnelli and designer Valentino - invited to a party at Villa Taverna, the official residence of US ambassador to Italy Maxwell M. Rabb.

MAGAZINE COVERS

Flash, Oggi, VSD

TV SHOWS

Viva Sofia! - March
TV broadcast on Italy Channel 4 of a three-hour special on Sophia.
The first segment titled Bentornata Sofia (Welcome Back, Sophia) is presented on March 18, the second, Viva Sofia (Here's to Sophia) on March 25, and the final episode, Bella come Sofia (Beautiful like Sophia) on April 1st.

Morning Exchange - March 11
Guest appearance on daily morning TV show with host Fred Griffith that aired on WEWS in Cleveland, OH.

A.M. Cleveland - March 11
Guest appearance of Sophia promoting Williams Island on daily morning TV show on Cleveland's WKYC.

Entertainment Tonight - April 2
Guest appearance.

Today Show - April 2
Interview with Sophia from Italy for American NBC TV show.

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous - July 20
Interview with Sophia promoting Williams Island.

BOOKS

Women and Beauty

Release of the German edition as Das Geheimnis meiner Schönheit. and the Italian edition titled Donne e Bellezza.

EDITOR'S NOTES

Playmen Magazine's Nudes - January 6
Sophia loses her case against Italy's Playmen magazine which published early never-published nudes of her in December 1984. Roman judge Domenico Bonaccorsi rules that the publication of the pictures didn't damage Sophia's reputation as a wife and mother, because they were "neither vulgar nor dishonorable. He considers the pictures "rather chaste", with a "candid ingenuousness".

Sophia Donates Books to Hometown Pozzuoli - January
Italian newspaper Il Mattino announces that Sophia will donate $50,000 worth of books to the town of Pozzuoli in order to help establish a modern library in the Naples area which was hit by an earthquake in October 1983.

Pictures Returned to Sender - June
Poste Vaticane, Vatican's postal serices returns 20 early 1950's movie stills featuring Sophia deemed to daring at the time. The Vatican used Article 36 of the International Convention which leaves it up to each postal administration to decide what is obscene.