#boccaccio '70

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Romy Schneider on the set of Boccaccio '70, 1962

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Sophia Loren in "Boccaccio '70 - La Riffa". 1962

Photo: Klaus Colliguon (attr.)

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Boccaccio '70 (1962) Vittorio De Sica

(segment "La riffa")

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Sophia Loren & Vittorio de Sica behind the scenes of Boccaccio '70 (1962)

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On January 11, 2015 cult film icon and Screaming Mimi star Anita Ekberg died in Rocco di Papa, Italy.

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ROMY SCHNEIDER in BOCCACCIO '70 — 1962, dir. Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, & Luchino Visconti

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Federico Fellini - Boccaccio 70, Afiche de Milo Manara

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Sophia Loren in Boccaccio 70 (1962)

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Sophia Loren, Boccaccio '70, 1962

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Romy Schneider in Boccaccio ‘70

directed by Luchino Visconti, 1962

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Today's macro of the day is Anita Ekberg as herself in the Le Tentazioni del Dottor Antonio (The Temptation of Dr Antonio) segment of Boccaccio '70 (1962)!

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“By the time she was twenty-nine years old, the child born Sofia Scicolone to an unwed mother from Naples had: changed her name twice; married and had her marriage annulled; miscarried a child; moved from Pozzuoli near Naples to Rome to Beverly Hills to Paris to Switzerland and then back to Rome; won prizes in beauty pageants; become a star of fotoromanzi; appeared topless in two movies; and accrued more than forty mainstream film credits … She had won an Oscar while speaking a language other than English (a first); she had received a $1 million payday to appear in a movie (a first for an Italian, male or female); she was held as a living embodiment of Italian mores and style and, especially, movie art; and she had become an international symbol of sex, glamour and in some eyes, shamelessness and vice.”

/ From Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome by Shawn Levy, 2017 /

Born on this day 89 years ago (20 September 1934): Italy’s most famous export, sex goddess Sophia Loren! Pictured: Loren in the film Boccaccio ’70 (1962) in the segment directed by Vittorio De Sica. This is my favourite performance of hers. If you’re mainly familiar with Loren from her frequently decorative English-language roles, seeing her act in her native Italian is a revelation. She’s a loose, funny, self-mocking and earthy comedic performer – and of course, irresistibly sexy! And Loren never looked better. I mean, just look at her!

Sophia Loren in Boccaccio ‘70, 1962