1961-10-07 — Page 13

Roderick Mann

A SEX-SYMBOL? NOT, SAYS LOREN

IN

Rome.

a room filled with a hundred red roses, Sophia Loren sits talk- ing, ranging the floor with her bold eyes.

Her. Vesuvian figure

is sheathed in a simple red dress. She

ANY MORE

Women she turns in a perfor- "You know, I had the, seript mance of slaggering virtuosity.

Is this the decorative cluther horse of The Millionairesa; the

no jewellery, save Continental tempiress of Home- sapphire-and-diamond bour ring on her finger.

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of Twe Women a long time. Curio Carlo tallum producer wears

Pout and I bought t yours

ago,

Originally I was to play the daughter. Magnani was to be the mother. One day de Sics *I love you. Trust wired me: site. Play the mestiter." And 1 gree

It is her 27th birthday. A time, she teels, for reappraisal, for contemplation.

Two years ago-in the opinion Hollywood producers of some

through.

she was virtually Although she had been starred with many of Hullywood's top- ranking actors, her American- made ins hait mosly proved disasters,

to

When she left to retur

the outlook her native Italy, seemed black. A dozen or so Halian flms, perhaps then the lony, slow slide into obscurity.

That was two years ago.

Shattering

Women,

Today--with her shattering, performance in Twe

her the Cannes which won Festival Award and which Is

tigned to win her an Oscar- Loren is back in the Big Lengue.

And deservedly so.

Her stunning figure swathed combed with

in raps, her hair

a garden ruke, stripped of make-up and artifice,

TARGET

YES

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Unbelievabic, It Overnight,

for the struggle recognition above her busi-line in over. She con neme any director she wants; play WIN port she chooses,

Two Women is playing to capacity houses both here and

in America. The Erties have found her "breathtaking"; "un- believable"; "staggering."

now

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Who, the producers are saying, can touch her? Who has her

range-enough appeal to stampede a Church Lada' Brigade, enough tender- near to wrench your heart?

Not Taylor; not Monroe; not Signoret. No one.

And so she sits here with me, shaking her head at the irony of it all; totally femple; Alling the rocen with her feminity: from Naples who the urchin

now rides in a Rolls.

"I grew up," she said. "That's what happened. I came back home, back among my 'people, and I grew up.

Easiest

"They all praise my perform ance in Two Women. Dut "it was the cusiest thing I have ever done. I was working within the range of my own experi- ence. I did not have to imagine

how I would feel in such situation: I knew.

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"Oh, I don't mean I was ever raped by troops, as I rem in the film. But was nine when the Allies invaded Nople; and I

clearly Temanber s0

what I thought when 1 rst saw them.

"And I had Vittorio de Sien

What directing me. pluscale : ป

mere van I ask? A

completely man simpatic who trusts me. 1 trust hon.

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"It was he who dirented you Arst good m The Gult of Napies. How can I lose with a inn fike that? Now he will direet my new film, 70.

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Changed

"The story was changed; the child was made only 13. And It worked. Nobody queried that . at 20, thould be playing the mother of a 13-year-old child. Sa must have worked.

"When see it again-as 1 did when

dubbed it into English for the American market camiot believe t me up there en the screen. I convince even myself. Very much, in fact, I cry all again I had everyone in the dubbing room crying with me. Such fears.

over

"But you mual understand one thing. I do not sneer at my Hailywood adventure. The Blms were not so good, perhaps. But I learned from all of them. I enuld not have played Two Women five years ago. I needed Hollywood to help me mature.

"It is not their fault that do they did not know what to

Americans, with me. To the we Italians are stili mostly gangsters and wailers.

"And they have never been

able to accept a foreign actress for what she is. They feel they It was must change her. So with mc.

"Had I stayed on I would Just another have beenme assembly-line beauty. That's why I came home.

Forget..

I ever got depressed, Carlo would say: "If you are a Tral actress-nvi just a fim star bad ims cannot hart you. One good film will rescue you.' And he was right.

"Now I want to forget about my sex-symbol days. I want to forget about my body, and

I

SHOW BUSINESS

want other about It loo. remembered

my bust,"

people to forget

I want to be for my face, not

She looked down at her hand, at the ring which she had just got that day-a birthday present from Carlo Ponti.

"Carlo

to

"Today," she said, and I are no longer married. We live together, of course, but we are not married. We had annu) our marriage because Italian law does not recognise Carlo's Mexican divorce from his wite and therefore, in Brst Balian eyes, we were bigamously married.

"It is a nuisance, but it dees not worry me too much, I feel

Sophia Loren -her fight for recognition

as an actress is over

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married; that is the important thing.

"Only in one respect is frustrating. I want to have child. Not being legally mar- ried makes it all complicated, Carlo would have to get his frst wife's permission to pasu on his name to

any child had. I do not want to stari a child with paper-work. 1 can- not do that."

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As I got up to go, she looked thus past me at the Oscar in book-case, the ume given Carlo Pont for producing award-winning La Strada.

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t11 inoks nice." she sald. Then she onlled wide, her great, apade-shaped teeth shin- ing through those heart-breaking lips. "I would be nice to have a pair, I think."

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THE illustrious

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It shouli be frank and yet sensitive, tender and yet cruel. deeply informed about her life and endowed with enough Insight to make sense of its strange con- dieting strands.

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THE MEN WHO MADE MILLIONS

THE MILLIONAIRE MEN- TALITY. Michael Pearson, Sec- ker and Warburg, 16s. An enter- "saila laining study of the

ones made millionaires," the wo startn with no advan!- ages or capital, apart froán an iden and the curious com. that con bination of qualities transform it into a fortune, even in the post-war age of high taxation.

she dici briefly but with

COLETTE - to the last the enthusiasm during a lean period.

belonged to the half-world and

She

ito people, embrolled was scandalous episodes of AIL equivocal nature. Ол

desert of love an ardent onc

and duet donced with occasion

very small place." What a subject the Isl

another woman so shocked the malicing a physical resemblance

Insnet kept her work in a them. dressed them small scale. It deals with young She was probably

relatives of her partner that the between the Grand Officer of the Legion of theatre reng with outeries and ailles and was seen everywhere people, with evanescent passions. THE ALPS. Wilfred Noyce/

was stoge Honour who danced all

ittered with in Paris with one on each arm, it is "slight," but so is a spider's Karl Lokan, Thames but the

and Hud. web. naked on the stage. She was disagreeable objects.

He had a gift for publicity.

#on. 63z. Mountains, snow. probably the only novelist to

By

and a forced to write, being

Colette was not a romantic. clouds-with all this

cumera too, you Her vision is poetle and down to

cannot go capucity and a passion

wrong. Here are 230 magnif- for earth. How characteristle of her

Alps. In There will, in days to come, writing. It grew and never left to make Lea, the central agure cont photographs of

her,

of Cheri, not only a great, it be many books about Colette.

ageing, courtesan, but also Most superduous as this one, which tells us little or nothing that we did not know already.

FICTION SHELF

NIMROD SMITU, Alan Wrkes. -Hamilton. 21s. Partly

the blography of a professional

TWO WORLDS Colette found In herself

of them will be just as In her life, she bridged the mine of information on practical

gulf between two worlds the matters like constipation world of alenay music halls,

perspiration. tarts, dove addiets and the Eke, of Cherl, Lea and Milsou, and

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all moods, stretching from near

almost Avignon

30 for Vienna. Notes (by Noyce) and essays (by Lakan) printed on thick brown wropping paper for

some reason

Murzer, Hamilton. 714

Colette began her literary the world of serious literature. of Parls in the years just after the Life of Henry

Lea sums up the young people THE FIRST DOHEMIAN! big game hunter, purily the story career under the worst of nuse By writing about the first of the 1914-18 war with penetral Robert Balbick.

slave. Her first of how the author (who also busbind, known as Willy, locked these worlds, she became famous ing

pleeg, an a

brovity: Romanticism, Wo call. her Mimi, but neurones, the dirgurt of life alomach."

wrote Snake Man) palatstaking-

her in a room for four hours a ly extracted detail of the

cloy colourful life of his strong, ille at school.

write a story about her allent, Inarticulate subject. A most engaging book.

When the story was not erotic THE enough for Willy'a taste, he

Coletto mado

Insert

ONE FOOT IN

In the second,

POETIC VISION

That was undoubtedly Colotio speaking. Tor, in each of her characters the most powerful She became venerable, an element horself, her more undoubted pillar

and of French temperament

her of national experience.

owli own

CLOUDR. J. Gailarne Hardy improper material. When Willy culture, a source Jamlak Ilamilton. 15s. Adven- tures of young writer in the to the novel and sold it,

was satisfied, he put his name pride, without, ever becoming

conventionali. To the Tost, Miss Marks tells in outilne labyrinth of the Hierary world. Excellent comie set-pieces in-

Colette belonged to the half- the fe of this doughty French Io wor An Impudent rogue world and its people.

woman, She gives some account cluido a disastrous pubite novel- who. among other peradies,

of the plote, and peravnozes of rending at · British - Museum. deceived

young wife with She writes, with the candour the novels. If all the bodice of Conventional plearesque for- on actress named Polaire. The of a woman of courage and, Colette had been destroyed, this mul, but with refreshingly aufconic was unusual.

ple thinks, from the heart. For would be the most valuable <individual plant.

Wife and mistress took o instance, she said: Voluptuous record, Happily, our need is fancy to one another and Wily, ness occupies, in the lilies not so great as that,

"London" Kapresa Kervier),

her

name wad. Lucio Loubet. Si10

αν was опе the Bohemians (Rodolphe was Murger himself) in the book' which mado: her lover famous and cai which Puccini based his opera. Mr Baklick has drawn an admirablo picture of tho Latin quarter 160 years ago, | ● CASANOVA, J. Rives Childs, Allen and Unwin32 All ho wrote: (or most of it) was true. With American thepugliness

My Childs han devoted · Roven seara lo studying the evidenca,

This biography supports tho als volanes of Castanova'a mainioles.

Atooping

It wasn't chic

to know the time

-until she

had a Rolex

Beneath mjuk blankote

And rising, at any hour sho pleased. To the popping of champagna corka- For hora pleasant start to any day←→ Bha didn't think it chio to know the time. But he was very beautiful.

So any man, and there wero EZANJ, Was glad

To have the privilege of waiting for her...

But then one day there came

A new and different man.

Discriminating and discorning,

Ho sawuch farther than the others had, Halpoked right into her heart and road there Longing,

For a Holax watch...

It had more systrate than champETLO-

but it was lasting.

It had the perfect finish of a Dior dress-

and yot it wouldn't dalo. Altogether it was so exquisite That suddenly it was delectable

to know the time...

The Rolex was as chilo da shu wIS, Boabe loved to wear it.

She loved the man who gave it

to her, too,

Dewarn of cruciorfaits-buy only from Authorized Revallen",

Rolex