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Contents
Articles
Sophia Loren
1
Hearts at Sea (film)
10
Quo Vadis (1951 film)
11
Anna (1951 film)
14
Two Nights with Cleopatra
16
Aida (1953 film)
18
Neapolitan Carousel
20
Poverty and Nobility
22
The Gold of Naples
24
Attila (1954 film)
26
Too Bad She's Bad
27
The Sign of Venus
29
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
31
The River Girl
32
Pane, amore e...
33
Lucky to Be a Woman
35
Boy on a Dolphin
37
The Pride and the Passion
39
Legend of the Lost
42
Desire Under the Elms (film)
45
The Key (1958 film)
46
The Black Orchid (1958 film)
48
Houseboat (film)
50
That Kind of Woman
53
Heller in Pink Tights
55
It Started in Naples
57
The Millionairess
59
A Breath of Scandal
61
Two Women
63
El Cid (film)
65
Madame Sans-Gêne (film)
69
Boccaccio '70
71
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
73
The Fall of the Roman Empire (film)
76
Marriage Italian-Style
82
Operation Crossbow (film)
84
Lady L
87
Judith (1966 film)
89
Arabesque (film)
91
A Countess from Hong Kong
93
More Than a Miracle
96
Ghosts – Italian Style
97
Sunflower (1970 film)
99
Lady Liberty (film)
101
The Priest's Wife
103
Man of La Mancha (film)
104
Al Haram
110
The Voyage
111
Verdict (1974 film)
114
Brief Encounter (1974 film)
115
Sex Pot
116
The Cassandra Crossing
118
A Special Day
121
Blood Feud (1978 film)
124
Brass Target
125
Angela (1978 film)
127
Firepower (film)
128
Aurora (1984 film)
129
The Fortunate Pilgrim
130
Prêt-à-Porter (film)
131
Grumpier Old Men
135
Between Strangers
139
Lives of the Saints
141
Nine (film)
143
References
Article Sources and Contributors
152
Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors
155
Article Licenses
License
156
Sophia Loren
1
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren in June 2009
Born
Sofia Villani Scicolone20 September 1934Rome, Italy
Residence
Geneva, Switzerland
Nationality
Italian
Other names Sofia Lazzaro
Sofia Scicolone
Ethnicity
Italian
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1950–present
Religion
Roman Catholic
Spouse
Carlo Ponti
(m. 1957-1962, annulled; 1966-2007, his death)
Children
Carlo Ponti, Jr., Edoardo Ponti
Relatives
Alessandra Mussolini (niece)
[1]
Sophia Loren, OMRI (born Sofia Villani Scicolone; September 20, 1934) is an Italian actress.
In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards,
becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance. Loren has won 50
international awards, including an Oscar, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, a BAFTA Award and a
Laurel Award. Her other films include: Houseboat (1958), El Cid (1961), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963),
Marriage Italian Style (1964), A Special Day (1977). In recent years she has received critical and commercial
success in movies for home box-office such as Courage (1986) and in American blockbusters such as Grumpier Old
Men (1995), and Nine (2009). In 1994 she starred in Robert Altman's Ready to Wear, which earned her a Golden
Globe nominationin in 1995.The same year she received the Cecil B. de Mill award for lifetime achievements.
In 1999, Loren was listed by the American Film Institute on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars as one of 25 American
female screen legends of all time. In 2002, she was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) at
its annual Anniversary Gala and was inducted into its Italian American Hall of Fame. In 2009, the Guinness Book of
[2]
World Records recognized her as "Italy's Most Awarded Actress".
In 1991, the Republic of France awarded her a Distinction of la Légion d'honneur (the Legion of Honor) with the
grade of Chevalier (Knight). In 1997, Loren was invested Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica
Italiana (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic). In 2010, she was awarded the Praemium
Imperiale by the Imperial Family of Japan on behalf of the Japan Art Association.[2]
Sophia Loren
Early life
Loren was born in the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome,[3] [4] daughter of an Arberesh-Italian couple Romilda
Villani (1914–1991) and Riccardo Scicolone, a construction engineer.[5] Scicolone refused to marry Villani, leaving
her, a piano teacher and aspiring actress, without support.[6] Loren's parents had another child together, her sister
Anna Maria Villani Scicolone, in 1938. Loren has two younger paternal half-brothers, Giuliano and Giuseppe.[7]
Romilda, Loren, and Maria lived with Loren's grandmother in Pozzuoli, near Naples, to survive.[8]
During World War II, the harbour and munitions plant in Pozzuoli was a frequent bombing target of the Allies.
During one raid, as Loren ran to the shelter, she was struck by shrapnel and wounded in the chin. After that, the
family moved to Naples, where they were taken in by distant relatives.
After the war, Loren and her family returned to Pozzuoli. Grandmother Luisa opened a pub in their living room,
selling homemade cherry liquor. Villani played the piano, Maria sang and Loren waited on tables and washed dishes.
The place was very popular with the American GIs stationed nearby.
When she was 14 years old, Loren entered a beauty contest in Naples and, while not winning, was selected as one of
the finalists. Later she enrolled in acting class and was selected as an extra in Mervyn LeRoy's 1951 film Quo Vadis,
launching her career as a motion picture actress. She eventually changed her name to Sophia Loren.
Career
Beginnings
After being credited professionally as Sofia Lazzaro, she began using her current stage name in 1952's La Favorita.
Her first starring role was in Aida (1953), for which she received critical acclaim.[9] After playing the lead role in
Two Nights with Cleopatra (1953), her breakthrough role was in The Gold of Naples (1954), directed by Vittorio De
Sica.[9] Too Bad She's Bad, also released in 1954, became the first of many films in which Loren co-starred with
Marcello Mastroianni. Over the next three years she acted in many films such as Scandal in Sorrento (1955) and
Lucky to Be a Woman (1956). In 1957, Loren's star had begun to rise in Hollywood, with the films Boy on a Dolphin
(her U.S. film debut), Legend of the Lost with John Wayne, and The Pride and the Passion in which she starred
opposite Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra.
International fame
Loren became an international film star with a five-picture contract
with Paramount Pictures in 1958. Among her films at this time were
Desire Under the Elms with Anthony Perkins, based upon the Eugene
O'Neill play; Houseboat, a romantic comedy co-starring Cary Grant;
and George Cukor's Heller in Pink Tights, in which she appeared as a
blonde for the first time.
In 1961, she starred in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women, a stark, gritty
story of a mother who is raped while trying to protect her daughter in
war-torn Italy. Originally cast as the daughter, Loren fought against
type and was re-cast as the mother (actress Eleonora Brown would
portray the daughter). Loren's performance earned her many awards,
Loren in the trailer for Five Miles to Midnight
including the Cannes Film Festival's best performance prize, and an
(1962)
Academy Award for Best Actress, the first major Academy Award for
a non-English-language performance and to an Italian actress. She won
22 international awards for Two Women. The film proved to be extremely well accepted by the critics and it was a
huge commercial success.
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Sophia Loren
Loren is known for her sharp wit and insight. One of her most frequently-quoted sayings is her quip about her
famously-voluptuous figure: "Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti." However, on the December 20, 2009, episode
of CBS News Sunday Morning, Loren denied ever saying the line.
During the 1960s, Loren was one of the most popular actresses in the world, and she continued to make films in both
the U.S. and Europe, acting with leading male stars. In 1964, her career reached its zenith when she received $1
million to act in The Fall of the Roman Empire. In 1965, she received a second Academy Award nomination for her
performance in Marriage Italian-Style.
Among Loren's best-known films of this period are Samuel Bronston's epic production of El Cid (1961) with
Charlton Heston, The Millionairess (1960) with Peter Sellers, It Started in Naples (1960) with Clark Gable, Vittorio
De Sica's triptych Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1963) with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov's Lady L
(1965) with Paul Newman, the 1966 classic Arabesque with Gregory Peck, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, A
Countess from Hong Kong (1967) with Marlon Brando.
Loren received four Golden Globe Awards between 1964 and 1977 as "World Film Favorite - Female."[10]
Mid-career and musical recordings
Once she became a mother, Loren worked less. Most of her acting during the next two decades was in Italian
features. During the 1970s, she was paired with Richard Burton in the last De Sica-directed movie, The Voyage
(1974), and a remake of the film Brief Encounter (1974). In 1976 she starred in The Cassandra Crossing, a disaster
film featuring such veteran stars as Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, and Ava Gardner. She also co-starred with
Marcello Mastroianni in Ettore Scola's A Special Day (1977), an Italian film for which she was nominated for several
awards. Loren then starred in the Hollywood thrillers Brass Target (1978), set during World War II, and Firepower
(1979), that had a moderate success. In 1980, Loren portrayed herself, as well as her mother, in a made-for-television
biopic adaptation of her autobiography titled Sophia Loren: Her Own Story. Actresses Ritza Brown and Chiara
Ferrari played Loren at younger ages. In 1981, she became the first female celebrity to launch her own perfume,
Sophia, and a brand of eyewear followed soon thereafter.[9] She made headlines in 1982 when she served an 18-day
prison sentence in Italy on tax evasion charges, a fact that didn't damage her career or popularity. In fact, Bill Moore,
then employed at Pickle Packers International advertising department, sent her a pink pickle-shaped trophy for being
"the prettiest lady in the prettiest pickle". She acted infrequently during the 1980s and turned down starring roles on
the TV series Dynasty and Falcon Crest, preferring to devote more time to raising her sons.[11] [12] In 1988 she
starred in the miniseries The Fortunate Pilgrim.
Loren has also recorded well over two dozen songs throughout her career, including a best-selling album of comedic
songs with Peter Sellers; reportedly, she had to fend off his romantic advances. It was partly owing to Sellers'
infatuation with Loren that he split with his first wife, Anne Howe. Loren has made it clear to numerous biographers
that Sellers' affections were reciprocated only platonically. This collaboration was covered in The Life and Death of
Peter Sellers where actress Sonia Aquino portrayed Loren. It is said that the song "Where Do You Go To (My
Lovely)" by Peter Sarstedt was inspired by Loren.
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4
Later career
In 1991, Loren received the Academy Honorary Award for her
contributions to world cinema and was declared "one of the world
cinema's treasures." In 1995, she received the Golden Globe Cecil B.
DeMille Award. She presented Federico Fellini with his Honorary
Oscar. In 2009 Loren stated on Larry King Live that Fellini had
planned to direct her in a film shortly before his death in 1993.[13]
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Loren was selective about choosing
her films and ventured into various areas of business, including cook
books, eyewear, jewellery and perfume.
She received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in
Robert Altman's film Ready to Wear (1994), co-starring Julia Roberts.
Loren in Kenya while serving as Goodwill
Ambassador in 1992
In the comedy Grumpier Old Men (1995), Loren played a femme fatale opposite Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, and
Ann-Margret. The film was a box-office success and became Loren's biggest U.S hit in years.[9]
In 2001, Loren received a Special Grand Prix of the Americas Award at the Montreal World Film Festival for her
body of work.[14] She filmed two projects in Canada during this time: the independent film Between Strangers
(2002), directed by her son Edoardo and co-starring Mira Sorvino, and the television miniseries Lives of the Saints
(2004).
In 2009, after five years off the set and fourteen years since she starred in a prominent US theatrical film, Loren
starred in Rob Marshall's film version of Nine, based on the Broadway musical that tells the story of a director whose
midlife crisis causes him to struggle to complete his latest film; he is forced to balance the influences of numerous
formative women in his life, including his deceased mother. Loren was Marshall's first and only choice to portray the
mother. The film also stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Kate Hudson, Marion Cotillard, and Nicole Kidman.
As a part of the cast she received her first nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
As of 2010 Loren is working in Italy on a two-part television biopic of her early life titled La Mia Casa È Piena di
Specchi (translated My House Is Full of Mirrors), based on of the memoir written by her sister Maria.[15]
Personal life
Loren's primary residence has been in Geneva, Switzerland since late 2006.[16] She also owns homes in Los Angeles
and New York.
In September 1999, Loren filed a lawsuit against 76 adult websites for posting altered nude photos of her on the
internet.[17] [18]
Loren is a huge fan of the football club S.S.C. Napoli. In May 2007, when the team was third in Serie B, she told the
Gazzetta dello Sport that she would do a striptease if the team won.[19]
Loren posed scantily-clad at 72 for the 2007 Pirelli Calendar along with such actresses as Penelope Cruz and Hilary
Swank.[20]
Sophia Loren
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Marriage and family
Loren first met Carlo Ponti in 1950 when she was 15 and he was 37.
They married on September 17, 1957. However, Ponti was still
officially married to his first wife Giuliana under Italian law because
Italy did not recognize divorce at that time. The couple had their
marriage annulled in 1962 to escape bigamy charges.[21] In 1965, Ponti
obtained a divorce from Giuliana in France, allowing him to marry
Loren on April 9, 1966.[22] They later became French citizens after
their application was approved by then French President Georges
Pompidou.[23]
The couple had two sons: Carlo Ponti Jr. (born December 29, 1968)
and Edoardo Ponti (born January 6, 1973).
Loren remained married to Carlo Ponti until his death on January 10,
[24]
2007 of pulmonary complications.
When asked in a November 2009 interview if she is ever likely to
marry again, Loren replied "No, never again. It would be impossible to
love anyone else."[25]
Loren in 1986, by Allan Warren
Her daughters-in-law are Sasha Alexander and Andrea Meszaros.[7] [26] Loren has three grandchildren: Lucia Ponti
(born May 12, 2006),[27] Vittorio Ponti (born April 3, 2007).[7] and Leonardo Fortunato (born December 20, 2010).
Filmography
Year
Title
Role
1950
I Am the Capataz
Secretary of the Dictator
1950
Barbablu's Six Wives
Girl kidnapped
1950
Tototarzan
A tarzanide
1950
I Devote, Thee
A popular to the party of
piedigrotta
1950
Hearts at Sea
Extra
1951
White Leprosy
A girl in the boardinghouse
1951
Owner of the Vapor
Ballerinetta
1951
Milan Billionaire
Extra
1951
Magician for Force
The bride
1951
Quo Vadis
Lygia's slave
1951
It's Him!... Yes! Yes!
Odalisca
1951
Anna
Night club assistant
1952
And Arrived the Accordatore
Amica di Giulietta
1952
I Dream of Zorro
Conchita
1952
The Favorite
Leonora
1953
The Country of Campanelli
Bonbon
1953
Pilgrim of Love
Notes
Uncredited
Uncredited
Uncredited
Uncredited
As Sofia Scicolone
Sophia Loren
6
1953
We Find Ourselves in Arcade
Marisa
1953
Two Nights with Cleopatra
Cleopatra/Nisca
1953
Girls Marked Danger
Elvira
1953
Good Folk's Sunday
Ines
1953
Aida
Aida
1953
Africa Under the Seas
Barbara Lama
1954
Neapolitan Carousel
Sisina
1954
[[Un|giorno in pretura}}
Anna
1954
The Anatomy of Love
The girl
1954
Poverty and Nobility
Gemma
1954
The Gold of Naples
Sofia
1954
Attila
Honoria
1954
Too Bad She's Bad
Lina Stroppiani
1955
The Sign of Venus
Agnese Tirabassi
1955
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
Carmela
1955
The River Girl
Nives Mongolini
1955
Scandal in Sorrento
Donna Sofia
1956
Lucky to Be a Woman
Antonietta Fallari
1957
Boy on a Dolphin
Phaedra
1957
The Pride and the Passion
Juana
1957
Legend of the Lost
Dita
1958
Desire Under the Elms
Anna Cabot
1958
The Key
Stella
1958
The Black Orchid
Rose Bianco
1958
Houseboat
Cinzia Zaccardi
1959
That Kind of Woman
Kay
1960
Heller in Pink Tights
Angela Rossini
1960
It Started in Naples
Lucia Curio
1960
The Millionairess
Epifania Parerga
1960
A Breath of Scandal
Princess Olympia
1960
Two Women
Cesira
1961
El Cid
Jimena
1962
Madame Sans-Gêne
Catherine Hubscher, said
"Madame Sans-Gêne"
1962
Boccaccio '70
Zoe
Segment "Pizze a Credito"
Volpi Cup
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion
Picture Musical or Comedy
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Academy Award for Best Actress
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award
David di Donatello for Best Actress
Nastro d'Argento Best Actress
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Sant Jordi Awards Best Performance in a Foreign Film
Segment "La Riffa"
Sophia Loren
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1963
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Adelina Sbaratti/Anna
Molteni/Mara
1964
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Lucilla
1964
Marriage Italian-Style
Filumena Marturano
David di Donatello for Best Actress
•
•
•
•
•
•
David di Donatello for Best Actress
Moscow International Film Festival Award for Best Actress
Golden Laurel Awards for Best Actress (2nd Place)
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion
Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated — Nastro d'Argento Best Actress
•
•
David di Donatello for Best Actress
Nominated - Fotogramas de Plata Best Foreign Performer
•
•
David di Donatello for Best Actress
San Sebastian International Film Festival Prize San Sebastian
•
•
•
David di Donatello for Best Actress
Globo d'Oro Award for Best Actress
Nastro d'Argento Best Actress
1965
Operation Crossbow
Nora
1965
Lady L
Lady Louise Lendale/Lady L
1966
Judith
Judith
1966
Arabesque
Yasmin Azir
1967
A Countess from Hong Kong
Natascha
1967
More Than a Miracle
Isabella Candeloro
1968
Ghosts - Italian Style
Maria Lojacono
1970
Sunflower
Giovanna
1971
Lady Liberty
Maddalena Ciarrapico
1971
The Priest's Wife
Valeria Billi
1972
Man of La Mancha
Aldonza/Dulcinea
1973
The Sin
Hermana Germana
1974
The Voyage
Adriana de Mauro
1974
Verdict
Teresa Leoni
1974
Brief Encounter
Anna Jesson
1975
Sex Pot
Pupa
1976
The Cassandra Crossing
Jennifer Rispoli Chamberlain
1977
A Special Day
Antoinette
1978
Blood Feud
Titina Paterno
1978
Brass Target
Mara/cameo role
1978
Angela
Angela Kincaid
1979
Firepower
Adele Tasca/cameo role
1980
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
herself/Romilda Villani (her
mother)
1984
Aurora
Aurora
Television film
1986
Courage
Marianna Miraldo
Television film
1988
The Fortunate Pilgrim
Lucia
Television miniseries
1989
Running Away
Cesira
1990
Saturday, Sunday and Monday
Rosa Priore
Sophia Loren
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1994
Prêt-à-Porter
Isabella de la Fontaine
1995
Grumpier Old Men
Maria Sophia Coletta Ragetti
1997
Soleil
Maman Levy
2001
Francesca e Nunziata
Francesca Montorsi
2002
Between Strangers
Olivia
2004
Too Much Romance... It's Time for Maria
Stuffed Peppers
2005
Lives of the Saints
Teresa Innocente
2009
Nine
Mamma
•
•
National Board of Review Award for Best Cast
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting
Actress – Motion Picture
•
•
Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture
Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for
Best Cast
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding
Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Nominated — Washington DC Area Film Critics Association
Award for Best Ensemble Cast
•
•
2010
My House Is Full of Mirrors
2010
Femina
2011
Todos contra Juan 2
Romilda Villani
Pre-production
Herself
Argentinian television sitcom
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External links
• Sophia Loren (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000047/) at the Internet Movie Database
• Sophia Loren (http://tcmdb.com/participant/participant.jsp?participantId=116314) at the TCM Movie
Database
• Sophia Loren (http://www.tv.com/person/110114/summary.html) at TV.com
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Hearts at Sea (film)
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Hearts at Sea (film)
Cuori sul mare
Directed by
Giorgio Bianchi
Written by
Nicola Manzari
Release date(s) 1950
Country
Language
Italy
Italy
Hearts at Sea (Italian: Cuori sul mare) is a 1950 Italian film directed by Giorgio Bianchi. Sophia Loren appears as
an uncredited extra. [1]
Cast
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Doris Dowling - Doris
Jacques Sernas - Paolo Silvestri
Milly Vitale - Fioretta
Charles Vanel - Nurus
Marcello Mastroianni - Massimo Falchetti
Paolo Panelli - Un marinaio
Gualtiero Tumiati
Enzo Biliotti
Nicola Morabito
Aldo Fiorelli
Mimi Aylmer
Dina Perbellini
Sophia Loren - Extra (uncredited)
References
[1] "NY Times: Hearts at Sea" (http:/ / movies. nytimes. com/ movie/ 144955/ Cuori-Sul-Mare/ details). NY Times. . Retrieved 2009-03-04.
External links
• Cuori sul mare (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042362/) at the Internet Movie Database
Quo Vadis (1951 film)
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Quo Vadis (1951 film)
Quo Vadis
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Mervyn LeRoy
Produced by
Sam Zimbalist
Screenplay by
S. N. Behrman
Sonya Levien
John Lee Mahin
Based on
Quo Vadis by
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Starring
Robert Taylor
Deborah Kerr
Peter Ustinov
Leo Genn
Patricia Laffan
Finlay Currie
Felix Aylmer
Abraham Sofaer
Music by
Miklós Rózsa
Cinematography Robert Surtees
William V. Skall
Editing by
Ralph E. Winters
Distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)
November 8, 1951
Running time
171 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$7 million
Quo Vadis is a 1951 epic film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist,
from a screenplay by John Lee Mahin, S. N. Behrman and Sonya Levien, adapted from Henryk Sienkiewicz classic
1896 novel Quo Vadis. The music score was by Miklós Rózsa and the cinematography by Robert Surtees and
William V. Skall. The title refers to an incident in the Acts of Peter; see Quo Vadis?.
The film stars Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, with Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie, Felix
Aylmer and Abraham Sofaer. Sophia Loren was cast in the movie as an (uncredited) extra.
Quo Vadis (1951 film)
Plot
The action takes place in ancient Rome from AD 64–68, a period after Emperor Claudius' illustrious and powerful
reign, the new corrupt and destructive Emperor Nero ascends to power and eventually threatens to destroy Romes'
previous peaceful order.The main subject is the conflict between Christianity and the corruption of the Roman
Empire, especially in the last period of the Julio-Claudian line. The characters and events depicted are a mixture of
actual historical figures and situations and fictionalized ones.
The film tells the story of a Roman military commander, Marcus Vinicius (Robert Taylor), returning from the wars,
who falls in love with a devout Christian, Lygia (Deborah Kerr), and slowly becomes intrigued by her religion. Their
love story is told against the broader historical background of early Christianity and its persecution by Nero (Peter
Ustinov). Though she grew up Roman as the adopted daughter of a retired general, Aulus Plautius (Felix Aylmer),
Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome. Marcus persuades Nero to give her to him for services rendered. Lygia
resents this, but still falls in love with Marcus.
Meanwhile, Nero's atrocities become increasingly more outrageous and his acts more insane. When he burns Rome
and blames the Christians, Marcus goes off to save Lygia and her family. Nero captures them and all the Christians,
and condemns them to be killed in the arena. However, Marcus' uncle, Petronius (Leo Genn), Nero's most trusted
advisor, warns that the Christians will be made martyrs and, tired of Nero's insanity and suspecting that he might
become a victim of his antics too, commits suicide by slitting his wrists, sending Nero a farewell letter in which he
finally communicates his derisive opinions he had never been able to tell the emperor in fear of his own life. Marcus
is arrested for trying to save Lygia. In prison, Peter (Finlay Currie), who has also been arrested, marries the couple;
eventually, Peter is crucified upside-down, implicitly at his own request ("To die as Our Lord did is more than I
deserve'," he says, and the Praetorian guard sneeringly answers, "We can change that").
Poppaea (Patricia Laffan), Nero's wife, who lusts after Marcus, devises a diabolical revenge for his rejection of her.
Lygia is tied to a wooden stake in the arena. A wild bull is also placed there, and Lygia's bodyguard giant, Ursus
(Buddy Baer) must try to kill it with his bare hands, otherwise Lygia will be gored to death. Marcus is tied to the
spectator's box and forced to watch, much to the horror of his officers, who also attend the spectacle. When all seems
hopeless, Ursus is able to break the bull's neck. Hugely impressed by Ursus' courage, the crowd exhorts Nero to
spare them, which the emperor is not willing to do. However, Nero's four other retainers Seneca (Nicholas Hannen),
architect Phaon (D. A. Clarke-Smith), Lucan (Alfredo Varelli), and Terpnos (Geoffrey Dunn) vouch for the mob's
demands by putting their thumbs up as well. Marcus then breaks free of his bonds, leaps into the arena, frees Lygia
with the help of his loyal troops, and announces that General Galba is at that moment marching on Rome, intent on
replacing Nero.
The crowd, now firmly believing that Nero, and not the Christians, is responsible for the burning of Rome, revolts.
Nero flees to his palace, where he strangles Poppaea to death, blaming her for attempting to scapegoat the Christians.
Then Acte (Rosalie Crutchley), a Christian palace slave who was once in unrequited love with Nero, appears and
offers to aid him in ending his own life before the mob storms the palace. The cowardly Nero cannot bring himself to
do it, so Acte drives the dagger into his chest, weeping over his demise.
Marcus, Lygia and Ursus are now free and leave Rome. By the roadside, Peter's crook has miraculously sprouted
flowers. The radiant light intones, "I am the way, the truth, and the life."
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Production notes
• The film was originally cast in 1949 with Elizabeth Taylor as Lygia and Gregory Peck as Marcus Vinicius. When
the production changed hands the following year, the roles went to Deborah Kerr and Robert Taylor. Elizabeth
Taylor was also a Christian prisoner in arena, but uncredited.
• The film was shot on location in Rome and in the Cinecittà Studios.
• The film holds a record for the most costumes used in one movie; 32,000.
• Lygia's slave was Sophia Loren (uncredited).
• Peter Ustinov relates in his autobiography, Dear Me, that director Mervyn LeRoy summarized the manner in
which he envisioned Ustinov should play the Emperor Nero, very salaciously, as "Nero...He plays with himself,
nights." Ustinov, getting the director's gist, thereafter notes that this depraved manner was the basis of his creation
of the character of Nero for the film.
• At one point in the film Nero shows his court a scale model illustrating his plans for rebuilding Rome. This model
was originally constructed by Mussolini's government for a 1937 exhibition of Roman architecture—the film's
producers borrowed it from the postwar Italian government.[1] [2]
Awards and nominations
Academy Awards
Quo Vadis was nominated for eight Academy Awards: twice for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Leo Genn as
Petronius and Peter Ustinov as Nero), and also for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color (William A. Horning,
Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Hugh Hunt), Best Cinematography, Color, Best Costume Design, Color, Best
Film Editing, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, and Best Picture. However, the movie did not
win a single Academy Award.[3]
Golden Globe Awards
Peter Ustinov won the Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actor. The Golden Globe for Best Cinematography
was won by Robert Surtees and William V. Skall. The film was also nominated for Best Motion Picture – Drama
Home media
• A 2-Disc Special Edition of the movie was released on DVD in the US on November 11, 2008 after a long
photochemical restoration process. A high definition Blu-Ray version was released March 17, 2009.
References
[1] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=4vIHMdmVwtEC& lpg=PA140& dq=%22Quo%20Vadis%22%20mostra& pg=PA140
[2] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=ixUePMNx8BkC& lpg=PA128& dq=%22Quo%20Vadis%22%20mostra& pg=PA128
[3] "NY Times: Quo Vadis" (http:/ / movies. nytimes. com/ movie/ 39930/ Quo-Vadis/ awards). The New York Times. . Retrieved 2008-12-21.
External links
• Quo Vadis (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043949/) at the Internet Movie Database
• Quo Vadis (http://www.allmovie.com/work/1:39930~T0) at Allmovie
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