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...strange sensation to play myself." Sophia is less flustered by her other part in Sophia, a TV movie based on A.E. Hotchner's 1979 biography. Indeed, she needs little more than a blond wig and her own vivid memories to portray her stunning mother, Romilda Villani, now 64. "My mother is everything," says the adoring daughter. "She is beautiful, instinctive and with the craziness of the artist in her, something I've had to control in myself." Sophia plays Mama to Letizia d'Adderio, 9, and two other young actresses who portray Loren from age four...
Back with Baby. Sophia was born in Rome in 1934 as the result of a natural union between Riccardo Scicolone, who called himself a "construction engineer," and a tall, red-haired girl named Romilda Villani. Scicolone did nothing constructive, preferring to hang around the edges of show business. Romilda was a would-be actress with a striking resemblance to Greta Garbo. Entering her picture in a contest, Romilda won a trip...
...even remember me. I gave milk to hundreds of children, but none of them drank as much as Sophia. Her mother gave me 50 lire a month. Sophia drank at least 100 lire worth of milk. Madònna mia!" Justice & Poetry. Scicolone dropped in on the Villani family in Pozzuoli from time to time, and soon Romilda had another daughter, called Maria. "That pig was free to marry me," complains Sophia's mother, "but instead he dumped me and married another woman." Not much was heard from Scicolone until Sophia became a movie star and he tried unsuccessfully...
...pleasure just to stroll down the street," Sophia remembers. Mamma had thought that Sophia should try to become a teacher, but she took another look and put her in a beauty contest. She won a secondary prize that included 15.000 lire and some wallpaper, which still decorates Grandfather Villani's living room in Pozzuoli. In the spring of 1950, mother and daughter went off to Rome to seek work in films...
Nineteen-year-old Ruth Ehlers of North Bergen, N.J. was a little worried last week about one aspect of her wedding to Louis Villani, 23, a mechanic of the same city. She had her heart set on getting hitched in a diving bell at the bottom of the ocean, but in writing to Atlantic City to arrange for the equipment, she pleaded: "Please don't think we are trying to be sensational or maybe even crazy...