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Sophia Loren with her husband, Carlo Ponti, on a boating trip off of Naples, 1961.
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Sophia Loren, 1962.
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Sophia Loren in her Italian villa, 1964.
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merlin caption: Actress Sophia Loren (R) posing with her mother (C) and her sister (L). published 5/6/1957
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Sophia Loren samples the thrills at Coney Island in 1958. The caption that accompanied this image when it was published in LIFE: "A really scared Sophia tries to go through a barrel of fun."
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Sophia Loren holds her newborn son, Carlo Ponti Jr., in the bedroom of her Italian villa as Alfred Eisenstaedt crouches beside her, 1969.
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Previously unpublished. Sophia Loren in her Italian villa, 1964.
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