More Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren made several movies with another Italian legend, Marcello Mastroianni. Yes, I suppose you could say they were the Hepburn and Tracy of Italy. :-)



The movies they did together include delightful diversions such as Yesterday Today, and Tomorrow and Marriage, Italian Style, along with serious fare like Blood Feud. Their last movie together was Robert Altman's Pret-a-Porte from 1994. Mastroianni died two years later.

One landmark movie of theirs was 1977's A Special Day, directed by Ettore Scola, with whom they worked many times. A Special Day concerned a housewife in Fascist Italy left alone in her apartment while her family goes to see Mussolini and Hitler during the Fuhrer's visit to Rome. She meets a charming, handsome middle-aged tenant who turns out to be gay, and their lives are changed as a result of their brief encounter.