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TELEVISION PREMIERE
USA: NBC, February 27, 1962. Color. 52
min.
CREDITS
Dialogues: Sller – Photography: er
– Costumes: Guy Laroche – Still
Photographer: Pierluigi
Praturlon –
Music: Robert
Emmett Dolan – Production:
Donald Hyatt for NBC.
CAST
Sophia Loren, Anthony
Perkins,
Anatole Litvak, Vittorio De Sica, Carlo Ponti, Art Buchwald, Jeanette
Spanier.
FILMING LOCATIONS
Paris, France
Franstudio, Saint-Maurice
Apartment on Piazza Campidoglio
Villa Marino
footage (Naples, Pozzuoli,
Rome
and movie
excerpts)
Filming
dates: December 29, 1961- February
1962
NOTES
The
one-hour broadcast is part of a series called The World of... which has
featured Bob Hope,
evangelist Billy Graham, AF general James Doolittle.
Not
surprisingly, Joe Levine's publicity machine got into the act and
persuaded NBC
to schedule the telecast
for the day that the Academy Award nominees
were
announced. If Sophia happened to be one of them,
the TV exposure should
have a
positive impact on the Oscar voters who might be watching. (Harris)
Sophia
and Carlo agree to an interview in their apartment overlooking piazza
Campidoglio, provided there is
no discussion of the bigamy scandal.
QUOTES
AND REVIEWS
"The
narration, read by Alexander Scourby, suggested that some critics
believed a
good many of Miss Loren's films were a greater tribute to nature than
to art,
but even on this score N.B.C. hardly gave much reason for a
coast-to-coast ooh
and ah."
John P. Stanley, New York Times, 27 feb 1962
"Producer Donald Hyatt chose to focus on Sophia because she seemed to
symbolize the new international aristocracy of the movie industry...
The whole
thing turned out to be more of a valentine than a documentary."
Warren G. Harris, Sophia Loren.
"Every once in a while I've seen on
her face - a little resentment of this or this actor, which is common
to anybody
and only human. And she's just as much ot a human being as anybody
else... The most important thing for me, she adores
her work, and she really works like a dog."
Anatole Litvak
"Certainly
a very shrewd girl who
knows what she wants and is going
to get it, is getting it, and has
got it. She works
at it
noon, morning and night. 1 have
the feeling that in every show, in
every interview, she's a very,
very clever girl... A little
bit arrogant. We must face the
fact that she has arrogance... But, oh,
boy, the control
of that dame! that really is
something."
Jeanette
Spanier
"All Cinderella
ever got was to marry the
Prince. She never got to be a
movie star... Suddenly to step
off the plane in
Hollywood,
the new foreign film star of
the decade, this is a very tough
thing to live up to. It's not
surprising that
she would be a
little bit wary about everything she was
going to do there. And she
confided to me later that she
was,
you know, literally terrified."
Anthony Perkins
"She's
vain, she's jealous, she's egoist.
But she is so natural. 1 like
very much the character of
Sophia because she is sincere."
Vittorio De Sica
"She is
torn by doubts, hesitations
. . . I think that she keeps
her angriness always inside her."
Basilio
Franchina
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