2023-09-25 23:48:29
By BG
Published yesterday at 11:32, Updated yesterday at 23:48
Actress Sophia Loren fell at home on September 23. She had surgery the next day for a fractured femoral neck. AFP/Amy Sussman
The Italian actress, who celebrated her 89th birthday on September 20, fell in her house in Switzerland. She suffered several fractures to her hip and femoral neck.
Sophia Loren had to be urgently hospitalized on Sunday September 24 after a serious fall in her residence in Switzerland. According to The Hollywood Reporterthe legendary Italian actress (The ciociara, A particular day) suffered before the surgeons’ intervention from a fracture of the neck of the femur complicated by other multiple fractures at the hip.
The actress was injured when she slipped in her bathroom, according to the American media. After the operation, those close to the actress confided that the medical profession displayed “measured optimism», specifying that the unforgettable interpreter of Filumena in Italian wedding will, after a short convalescence, undergo serious and long rehabilitation work.
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This accident was revealed to the press because the actress was to inaugurate on September 26 a restaurant bearing her name in Bari – the fourth in Italy -, a city in Puglia where she is a living legend. This Adriatic city must even name her an honorary citizen.
The life ahead by Edoardo Ponti in 2020, based on the work of Romain Gary, with Sophia Loren, Ibrahima Gueye, Renato Carpentieri…
Sophia Loren’s sons, conductor Carlo Ponti and director Edoardo Ponti, immediately went to her hospital bedside. Under the latter’s direction, she played Madame Rosa in The life ahead in 2000, film inspired by the work of Romain Gary. Her exceptional performance was crowned with the David di Donatello Award for Best Actress in 2021.
It was during a beauty contest in Rome, in September 1951, that Sophia Loren met producer Carlo Ponti, 22 years her senior who would become the man of her life and her cinema pygmalion.
Her career then took off and she made films with international ambitions. From 1957, the voluptuous brunette with almond-shaped eyes played in Hollywood alongside the greatest actors of the time, from Anthony Quinn to Clark Gable, including Marlon Brando, Cary Grant, Peter Sellers, John Wayne and Frank Sinatra. ..
«Sex appeal is 50% what you have, and 50% what people think you have», the actress likes to say.
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