Today we are just focusing on 2 of Loren's many movies: first,
HELLER IN PINK TIGHTS that curious Cukor comedy western from 1959, with its stunning use of colour [step forward usual Cukor collaborator, colour consultant Hoyningen Heune] and its amusing blend of cowboys, indians and travelling players [hellers] out west, with their production of "Mazeppa", usually one step ahead of their creditors. Quinn and Sophia are teamed for the third time [after
ATTILA and
THE BLACK ORCHID] and the cast also features silent star Ramon Novarro and the grown-up Margaret O'Brien, Eileen Heckart is amusing as usual, and Sophia is curiously blonde .. not sure if it suits her.
And the best of her De Sica collaborations: the 1965
MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE a splendid version of that great play "Filumena" with its multi-layered story of how a bitter Loren tricks long time lover Mastroianni into finally marrying her, by revealing that one of her 3 sons is his. It amusingly shows their courtship during the war and how she runs his business but longs for the respectability of marriage.
Bonus - 3 more De Sica's: Loren and Belmondo in
TWO WOMEN / that amusing Naples section in
YESTERDAY TODAY AND TOMORROW, '64 / the Raffle episode from
BOCCACCIO 70 in '62/
Several other posts on Sophia at label.
Today we are just focusing on 2 of Loren's many movies: first, HELLER IN PINK TIGHTS that curious Cukor comedy western from 1959, with its stunning use of colour [step forward usual Cukor collaborator, colour consultant Hoyningen Heune] and its amusing blend of cowboys, indians and travelling players [hellers] out west, with their production of "Mazeppa", usually one step ahead of their creditors. Quinn and Sophia are teamed for the third time [after ATTILA and THE BLACK ORCHID] and the cast also features silent star Ramon Novarro and the grown-up Margaret O'Brien, Eileen Heckart is amusing as usual, and Sophia is curiously blonde .. not sure if it suits her.
And the best of her De Sica collaborations: the 1965 MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE a splendid version of that great play "Filumena" with its multi-layered story of how a bitter Loren tricks long time lover Mastroianni into finally marrying her, by revealing that one of her 3 sons is his. It amusingly shows their courtship during the war and how she runs his business but longs for the respectability of marriage.
Bonus - 3 more De Sica's: Loren and Belmondo in TWO WOMEN / that amusing Naples section in YESTERDAY TODAY AND TOMORROW, '64 / the Raffle episode from BOCCACCIO 70 in '62/ Several other posts on Sophia at label.
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