Sophia Loren, the Italian movie queen, was recuperating Monday after hip surgery after an accident at her Geneva home. According to a statement from Loren’s namesake restaurant business, the diva sustained fractures when she fell on Sunday, just days after her 89th birthday, but a subsequent surgery was successful.
“Now she will have to observe a short period of convalescence followed by a course of rehabilitation,” added the statement. “Fortunately everything went well and the Signora will be back with us very soon.”
Loren went from humble beginnings in Naples to become a Hollywood icon, winning two Oscars along the way.
She was also one of the great sex icons of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as Italy’s most famous film export. However, she was critical of depending only on appearances, noting once, “Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more.”You must dazzle, be enjoyable, and make your brain work, assuming you have one.”
She told CBS News correspondent Seth Doane in a 2020 interview for “CBS Sunday Morning” that “appearance – it’s important maybe in films… but it’s what you have to give inside of yourself, your soul, your everything; the way you believe in things, the way you’re with your family, the way you’re with your friends… that’s life, really.” That’s a terrific way to live.”
That year, she came out of retirement to play the lead in Netflix’s “La Vita Davanti a Se,” directed by her son Edoardo Ponti, about a Holocaust survivor who forms an odd bond with a Senegalese orphan.
She received great praise for her portrayal, over six decades after receiving an Oscar for her role in Vittorio de Sica’s film “La Ciociara” (“Two Women”) about a rape of a wartime mother.
In 1991, she was also awarded an honorary lifetime achievement Oscar.
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