Sophia Loren at 75

Sensation
Aida catapulted Loren to stardom, and in the next few years, she would make more than 20 films, often working on more than one at a time. Enough of the films were exported to other countries to make her familiar to moviegoers all over Europe, leading Italian publicists to declare 1955 "the Year of Sophia."

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