Sophia loren sexy pics - Sophia Loren: La Bella Figura • Magnum Photos

But in the end, it could only be someone as gorgeous as Loren, who could have rejected Grant.

The Oscar-winning actress is appearing in a series of intimate onstage conversations across the country about a career spanning more than five decades.

Cast in many small roles, she entered the limelight almost after a decade when she signed a contract with Paramount in 1956.

© David Seymour Magnum Photos A five-picture contract with Paramount Studios in 1958 catapulted Loren to international stardom, amongst these movies there was the romantic comedy Houseboat, in which she starred with her old lover, Cary Grant.

She was born Sofia Villani Scicolone in Rome, 1934.

Sophia only met him 3 times.