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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Sophia Loren, Yves Montand, Maurice Garin, Carla Bruni, Lazare Ponticelli, Hortense Mancini, Nino Ferrer, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Lino Ventura, Paul-Emile Botta, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Carlo Ponti, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Pierre Cardin, Olympia Mancini, Marie Anne Mancini, Italians in France, Cino Del Duca, Philippe Buonarroti, Anne Marie Martinozzi, Marie Mancini, Girolamo Grimaldi-Cavalleroni, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Giuseppe Cerutti, Alessandra Martines, Serge Reggiani, Filippo di Piero Strozzi, Nina Ricci, Francesco Bigottini, Amedee Gordini, Angelo Grizzetti, Piero de Bonzi, Fermo Camellini, Pierre Mosca, Gaetan Vestris, Roger Grava, David Bortolussi, Jean de Bonsi, Justin Tuveri, Aldo Romano, Charles Waddington, Henri Pigozzi, Louis Visconti, Joseph-Marie Lo Duca, Angiolo Vestris, Carlo Vigarani. Excerpt: Sophia Loren, OMRI (born Sofia Villani Scicolone; 20 September 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). 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 nomination in 1995. The same year she received the Cecil B. de Mille award for lifetime achievements. In 1999, Loren was listed by the American Film Institute on AFI's 100 Years... ...
