Sophia said later that she didn't think she would win since it was a foreign film with subtitles, so she did not show up. She was only 25 years old when Two Women was made. She was amazing and really felt the part. Carlo Ponti must have been so proud.
Sophia definitely deserved this. The iconography of the beautiful Audrey in Breakfast at Tiffany's and of Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass...and of course Geraldine Paige (one of the best actresses of the last 50+ years) overshadow a devestating performance from Sophia Loren in a truly groundbreaking film. One that showed the horrors of war...and for a Foreign Language Film as well, it was amazing
@Dan Diamond I'm sorry,I misunderstood your first message...You right she was living in Rome with her husband as you said...I want only to be clear that Sofia was born in Rome,but her family is from Pozzuoli where she came back to live after a short period in Rome...Sopia has Napolitan culture,even when she talks you can realize she is from Napoli...In my first message I explained very bad my though
One of the most competitive year for Best Actress. All were wonderful, but Loren's performance was on another level. As were her performances in Marriage Italian Style and A Special Day. These films are not shown often. But each is a masterpiece.
i know how frustrating it is because of the iconography of breakfast at tiffany's but if any of you have actually watch TWO WOMEN you will understand why Sophia won.
Sophia Loren well deserved her win here! Her performance was beautiful, raw and deeply touching! She was also nominated for Marriage Italian Style , but should have been nominated for A Special Day also!
I thought she should have received a nomination also yesterday today and tomorrow interestingly enough her husband produced Dr Zhivago and I understand that he purchased the rights to the film as a vehicle for Sophia then Julie Christie was cast in the film she was wonderful and I love Julie but I think Sophia is a better actress and would have played the role with a little more depth
@@johnfulton4061 Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow was a good film and it won a Best Foreign language Oscar, but her performance too much of a comedy for a nomination. A Special Day and The Life Ahead would have deserved a nomination or even a win! They were amazing performances! Never seen Doctor Zhivago…
@@DavidVarkonyi you obviously know good films if you get the chance see Dr Zhivago preferably at a movie theatre that shows old movies or on a large screen at your home or someone else's
The greatest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actress. No other performance has come close to the raw electricity and authenticity of Loren's Cesira in Two Women.
Greer should have won an honorary Oscar for classyness I liked how she accepted on Sophia's behalf P.S. This isn't the first time Greer showed classyness she also accepted on Vivian Leigh's behalf also
Your comment is disrespectful. Natalie Wood was an extraordinary actress that connected with audiences for 25 years and for future generations. No less an authority than Elia Kazan, the actors director and director of Splendor in the Grass, said that Natalie was one of the best actresses he had ever seen and did a rare television interview because Natalie was the subject of the interview. That's a testament to Natalie's acting ability.
Despite her great stardom, Sophia always appears down to earth and genuine. Her performance here was shattering and unexpected because she was more of a romantic comedy actress. Btw, Burt Lancaster has always been one of my very favorite actors, but he really screwed up this presentation.
Sophia Loren is charming, makes me laugh, makes me cry and thrills me with a force that no other actor or actress has ever come close to doing. He has an extraordinary talent that is comparable only to his magnetic charisma and timeless beauty. I'm completely in love with this amazing woman. QUEEN OF CINEMA!
To Billy; In your comment you described the actress with the words he has talent and his charisma. That must make Sophia Loren the most beautiful man that you have ever seen.
Greer Garson was so beautiful! She’s in her late fifties here, which I know is not at all old, but at a time where people seemed to prematurely age, even the divas, she’s just gorgeous.
I love Natalie Wood, but her performance in "Splendor In The Grass" did not have the depth of that of Sophia's in "Two Women". Sophia's was a gut wrenching raw performance of fire and power second to none. Sophia did not attend because she thought they would never give it to an Italian language performance. It was a first and ground breaking award 50 years ago and most deserved one at that.
I remember that part where she was admitted into the mental health facility and she was just passive. I didn't appreciate it the first time but I appreciate it now
Did you know Greer Garson (the lady who accepted the award for Sophia) is the reason the Oscars are not even longer than they already are? The year she won the best actress award, she gave a speech that lasted almost 20 minutes. The next year is when the winners were given time limits.
"A small scene from the longest Oscar Award acceptance-speech which is usually limited to 45 secs per category. Greer Garson who won the Best-Actress Award for the 1942 War film, playing a gutsy English Home-maker, gave a 5 1/2 min speech while on the podium to accept her statuette in the 1943 Academy Awards."
I've heard stories in which she gave a seventy-five minute speech! But, it was only five-and-a-half. She never lived it down: decades later, she was interviewed for a book being written about Oscar history, and at the end, she implored the author to set the record straight about her speech. "The story was funny in the beginning, but it has gotten so out of hand. Would you tell them the truth?" (Not verbatim).
If you noticed back then every actor and actress look different today all the actors and actresses look alike they look like little boys and girls instead of glamorous women and handsome men and most of them can't act
Damn, what an amazing roster for best actress. Natalie, Audrey, Geraldine, Piper ... I wish they could have all won, but Sophia certainly deserved it. Brava!
Miss Loren was one of the three greatest actresses of the last sixty years. Great beauty and talent combined. The other two were Vivian Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor.
Silvia George De gustibus non est disputandum Ma Sophia è bella. Check Marriage Italian style (Matrimonio all'italiana), Yesterday, today and tomorrow (Ieri, Oggi, Domani), Peccato che sia una canaglia and -dulcis in fundo- the DeSica's cut in Boccaccio '70. She will no longer be just a pair of legs
@@silviageorge7600 Sophia Loren is 1 van de mooiste vrouwen, misschien wel de mooiste... Ik heb nog nooit eerder een vrouw gezien met zo veel gezichten... En hoe ouder ze werd des te mooier... Ik snap niet wat er mis is met haar gezicht! Ze is een beauty!!! En wie dat niet vinden zijn gewoon jaloers op haar schoonheid!!! Zij is een echte klasse vrouw!!!!! Forever Sophia Loren!!! Ik zou zeggen ga eens meer films van haar kijken, er zijn er nog veel op dvd en je zult versteld staan hoe ze er iedere keer weer uitziet. Altijd weer een nieuw gezicht! Onvoorstelbaar dat een iemand haar niet mooi vindt. Daar kan ik niet inkomen...
@@cico1968 ik ben het helemaal met u eens!!! Sophia Loren is een klasse vrouw een beauty! Ik snap ook niks van de mensen die haar niet mooi vinden. Ze is 1 van de mooiste vrouwen, misschien wel de mooiste. Hoe ouder ze werd hoe mooier en een vrouw met zoveel gezichten heb ik nooit eerder gezien. In iedere film ziet ze er weer zo anders uit en oooh zo mooi... Beautiful Sophia Loren ❤❤❤❤❤
Amazing performance of Sofía, in the role of Cesira. Ir was intended to be performed by Ana Magnani and Sophia to play the rol of Rosseta. When Magnani declained her rol, Sofía claimed it for herself in spite of being so young. She play a more of 40 years old mother, so convincent as the author requested in his novel (Alberto Moravia).
Sophia Loren more than earned her Oscar for her deeply moving performance as a strong devoted mother in Two Women. But GIMINEE CRICKETS! How could they NOT nominate Shirley MacClaine in The Children’s Hour????
Sophia Loren was in Italy that night. She didn't want to fly all the way to Hollywood to only end up losing. However, she shrieked when she was told the next morning that she had won.
pellebravesskylar - They don’t make men like Burt anymore!!! What a hunk, a mans man!!! Actors if today look so wimpy compared to Burt, that smile, hair, physic & gorgeous eyes!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@madambutterfly7513 I met Burt Lancaster in 1970, As a young African American woman going through the "Black experience" I told Mr. Lancaster (Who also went to high school in New York City) How I fell in love with him after seeing Trapeze. He looked at and smiled.I also told him that I was a New Yorker and a Scorpio just like him, he gave me that beautiful smile of his and replied: You might be a New Yorker and Scorpio like I am But I'm not as pretty as you are! As he walked away, I shouted "That Mr is a matter of opinion! HE WAS GORGEOUS 😍
I watched yesterday her interview and she explained why she wasn,t there, she simply did not want others to see her being disappointed if she cant get oscars. What of a bad decision it was. She was at her peak of her beauty and this Oscars was the peak of her achievement!
ORGOGLIO ITALIANO MA IN PARTICOLARE NAPOLETANO!!! Una performance stupenda e non sono mai stata così contenta di sentire il nome della vincitrice quanto qui!❤
+Jonathan Wilkinson When I heard the line-up, I had the same thought. Not only is this a group of very fine actresses, but each film had a very high-quality script, the kind less and less found today, alack, alas.
Not only was it the first win for a foreign film EVER, it stood that was for decades until recently?? "Two Women" really was Italy's and Loren's "story" about the world war that had just ended, but the consequences were still very real in Europe all the way into the late sixties, and even still today.
I saw "Two Women" in 1960-61, both in Italian & then, after it won the Academy Award, dubbed in English & love the 'grittiness' of it! It's amazing, that at only age 25-26, she was originally considered to play the daughter & Anna Magnani, the mother!! Glad they changed!
Funny how Greer Garson accepts an Oscar from Burt. The previous year she presented the Oscar to Burt for Best Actor. I remember she commented "So richly deserved". Burt was very taken by the comment and mentioned it in his speech.
JerseySurvivor Also funny how Maximilian Schell receives his Oscar from Joan Crawford and then the next year Crawford accepts Anne Bancroft's Oscar from Schell because Anne was on Broadway at the time.
Anna Magnini, who won for the Rose Tattoo about six years earlier, was offered the role but had to resign due to illness. She suggested that Loren replace her!
She wasn't there because she wasn't fine. She wrote it in the her new book ''Yesterday, today, tomorrow-My life/Ieri, oggi, domani-La mia vita''. Kisses and many hugs from Italy, Sophia.
Didn't realize Gerry Page was there. I've never seen any pics of her that night. And she looks GREAT! People: That looks like Millie Perkins to the left of Gerry and Oscar Winner Donald Crisp right behind w/program. Natalie, seated behind nominee Stuart Whitman, is with Warren Beatty in glasses. And that's singer Andy Williams poking up 2 rows behind Warren. Proxys: Greer looks sensational!! God I miss people like that! Look at that bearing! A STAR!!!!
In 1974 I think it was, Sophia Loren came to see my show and wanted to know if my hair was real. She lived 1/2 block from my apartment in Paris. I lived on 16 Ave. Montaigne, she lived on Ave GeorgeV between Montaign and the champs Elysee. What a beauty she still is...
This totally BELONGED to Natalie. Bad enough she got jipped on Rebel and Love with The Proper Stranger, but Splendor was arguably her defining performance. And let's face it, as far as acting as well as star quality and character go Sophia had nothing on Natalie. Poor Nat, they should give an honorary Oscar in her honor
lol, youve probably never seen Two Women if you think that Loren `had nothing´ on Wood. Lorens acting was completely convincing with the pain, suffering & enjoyability. One of the most deserving wins ever. Wood was decent at best for hells sake, lol.
@@drstrangelove6558 Just saw this comment and it hurts my eyes. Natalie "decent at best" in what probably is the best coming of age performance of all time? You must be on something good... Sophia was very very good but she doesn't even touch Natalie in a performance that marked many people's life.
Interestingly, of the nominees , Loren, Wood, Paige, Hepburn and Laurie all won or would go on to win an Academy award and/or a Golden Globe award for their acting . Talented nominees that year!
I hope Sophia Loren wins oscar for Life Ahead n her son wins for best Director!!! And hope there Won't be any mess ups w almost Forgetting her Name when saying all the Nominations like this one!!! Blessings! April 11th 2021, fingers crossed! 🤞🏼🏆🙏🏻💕😷
Gary Henzler, yes, actors are laborers who reflect what is happening in our society. Tee Tarquin is not blaming anyone other than the actor (s) himself, herself (themselves) for grandstanding and gaslighting. Today's actors have taken advantage of these awards programs to present their own political views as their acceptance speeches or "off the cuff" remarks. Art for the sake of art was always an underlying motive and theme when the Hollywood studios were all powerful. Of course, no one is forcing Tee Tarquin to watch, but if he were already watching and an actor wins an award and steps up to his/her soapbox, Tee Tarquin and many others are going to formulate their opinions on such.
@riv4life618 Natalie was great , however it was Sophia ( who had the disadvantage of staring in a foreign language film ), who deservedly won the Oscar.
How sad is that the first Italian Oscar Winner (Actor/Actress) Anna Magnani was not there to receive the prize personally, she thought she would not win, then the second Italian winner, Sophia, was not there either. (And what a coincidence that initally Anna was cast for the mother role and Sophia was cast as the daughter in the "two women". Then it was decided that Sophia plays the mother, and she did indeed.) Anyway, the third Italian Oscar winner, Roberto, was present to get his prize and what a ceremony. And guess, who gives the prize, Sophia.
Great performances that year. I had the experience of seeing previews at the theater of Geraldine Page in Summer and Smoke and in Sweet Bird of Youth back to back, two totally different characters, showing amazingly her incredible range of abilities.
Sophia Loren still with us what a blessing two women was hard movie to watch Sophia deserve that Oscar she laid that part out so believable and real l cry right her ❤ much love to her always. 2:39
As much as i like Sophia, this award should have gone to Natalie Wood who was spectacular in "Splendor in the Grass" the big omission here however was Marilyn Monroe in "The Misfists" probably the only movie that she really deserved an Oscar for!!
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Sophia said later that she didn't think she would win since it was a foreign film with subtitles, so she did not show up. She was only 25 years old when Two Women was made. She was amazing and really felt the part. Carlo Ponti must have been so proud.
She was the first. There will be more soon
Sophia Loren was heartbreaking in 'Two Women.' Totally deserved that Oscar.
I SO agree,
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"this wildly beautiful and talented girl" never has a description of an actress been more accurate.
Sophia definitely deserved this. The iconography of the beautiful Audrey in Breakfast at Tiffany's and of Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass...and of course Geraldine Paige (one of the best actresses of the last 50+ years) overshadow a devestating performance from Sophia Loren in a truly groundbreaking film. One that showed the horrors of war...and for a Foreign Language Film as well, it was amazing
I would have liked to see the beautiful Sophia Loren accept the award in person.
I wonder where she was, she is a European so no reason she would be in LA.
Quién estuviera allí de elecciónes de viven ❤️😄🙏
@Dan Diamond her home is Napoli, she is Napolitan
@Dan Diamond I'm sorry,I misunderstood your first message...You right she was living in Rome with her husband as you said...I want only to be clear that Sofia was born in Rome,but her family is from Pozzuoli where she came back to live after a short period in Rome...Sopia has Napolitan culture,even when she talks you can realize she is from Napoli...In my first message I explained very bad my though
@@markgottlieb6775 She was at home because she thought she hadn't a chance
One of the most competitive year for Best Actress. All were wonderful, but Loren's performance was on another level. As were her performances in Marriage Italian Style and A Special Day. These films are not shown often. But each is a masterpiece.
Greer Garson could not possibly be more gracious nor more lovely...
I loved how Greer spoke on Sophia's behalf that was really classy
i know how frustrating it is because of the iconography of breakfast at tiffany's but if any of you have actually watch TWO WOMEN you will understand why Sophia won.
Sophia Loren was fantastic in Two Women. I would love to see that movie again. I is a typical Italian beauty and very talented.
I so agree. A shame they had to be in the same year, but Two Women is a shockingly great film
No I do not like sub-titled motion pictures. I can't stand them. I cannot read that fast. And I would not like this kind of motion picture anyway.
yeah its unfortunate they were in the same year. honestly shouldve tied.
Sophia's competition was Natalie Wood, honestly. I love Audrey but there was no chance.
Sophia Loren well deserved her win here! Her performance was beautiful, raw and deeply touching! She was also nominated for Marriage Italian Style , but should have been nominated for A Special Day also!
I thought she should have received a nomination also yesterday today and tomorrow interestingly enough her husband produced Dr Zhivago and I understand that he purchased the rights to the film as a vehicle for Sophia then Julie Christie was cast in the film she was wonderful and I love Julie but I think Sophia is a better actress and would have played the role with a little more depth
@@johnfulton4061 Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow was a good film and it won a Best Foreign language Oscar, but her performance too much of a comedy for a nomination.
A Special Day and The Life Ahead would have deserved a nomination or even a win! They were amazing performances!
Never seen Doctor Zhivago…
@@DavidVarkonyi you obviously know good films if you get the chance see Dr Zhivago preferably at a movie theatre that shows old movies or on a large screen at your home or someone else's
Two Women by Vittoria de Sica is a work of art and Sofia Loren's performance is savage. Long live, Sofia!
The greatest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actress. No other performance has come close to the raw electricity and authenticity of Loren's Cesira in Two Women.
One performance that truly deserved the oscar.
Greer should have won an honorary Oscar for classyness I liked how she accepted on Sophia's behalf P.S. This isn't the first time Greer showed classyness she also accepted on Vivian Leigh's behalf also
One of the most thrilling Best Actress races - I am so happy Sophia Loren won, but anyone of those actresses was very worthy!
Natalie
How beautiful and dignified Oscar ceremonies were in those days!
Your comment is disrespectful. Natalie Wood was an extraordinary actress that connected with audiences for 25 years and for future generations. No less an authority than Elia Kazan, the actors director and director of Splendor in the Grass, said that Natalie was one of the best actresses he had ever seen and did a rare television interview because Natalie was the subject of the interview. That's a testament to Natalie's acting ability.
astralagosto She should have won. Her peak, despite her co-star!
Despite her great stardom, Sophia always appears down to earth and genuine. Her performance here was shattering and unexpected because she was more of a romantic comedy actress. Btw, Burt Lancaster has always been one of my very favorite actors, but he really screwed up this presentation.
That smile made up for it.
One of the performances that truly deserved to win!
Sophia Loren is charming, makes me laugh, makes me cry and thrills me with a force that no other actor or actress has ever come close to doing. He has an extraordinary talent that is comparable only to his magnetic charisma and timeless beauty. I'm completely in love with this amazing woman. QUEEN OF CINEMA!
To Billy; In your comment you described the actress with the words he has talent and his charisma. That must make Sophia Loren the most beautiful man that you have ever seen.
Greer Garson was so beautiful! She’s in her late fifties here, which I know is not at all old, but at a time where people seemed to prematurely age, even the divas, she’s just gorgeous.
I love Natalie Wood, but her performance in "Splendor In The Grass" did not have the depth of that of Sophia's in "Two Women". Sophia's was a gut wrenching raw performance of fire and power second to none. Sophia did not attend because she thought they would never give it to an Italian language performance. It was a first and ground breaking award 50 years ago and most deserved one at that.
And then she passed the torch by giving the Oscar to Roberto Begnini for "Life is Beautiful." Kismet!
Burt Lancaster, Greer Garson, Sophia Loren,.....they do not have stars like them anymore!
Who's they, David?
I’ll just say Natalie Wood’s performance in Splendor in the Grass deserved something. Amazing, I watch it over and over.
I agree but because Sophia was in a war story that’s the reason. Got to keep promoting that you know.
A Golden Globe?
I remember that part where she was admitted into the mental health facility and she was just passive. I didn't appreciate it the first time but I appreciate it now
100% true! I thought Natalie was just outstanding in Splendor In The Grass!
Her best performance IMO.
Did you know Greer Garson (the lady who accepted the award for Sophia) is the reason the Oscars are not even longer than they already are? The year she won the best actress award, she gave a speech that lasted almost 20 minutes. The next year is when the winners were given time limits.
"A small scene from the longest Oscar Award acceptance-speech which is usually limited to 45 secs per category. Greer Garson who won the Best-Actress Award for the 1942 War film, playing a gutsy English Home-maker, gave a 5 1/2 min speech while on the podium to accept her statuette in the 1943 Academy Awards."
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I've heard stories in which she gave a seventy-five minute speech! But, it was only five-and-a-half. She never lived it down: decades later, she was interviewed for a book being written about Oscar history, and at the end, she implored the author to set the record straight about her speech. "The story was funny in the beginning, but it has gotten so out of hand. Would you tell them the truth?" (Not verbatim).
Five extraordinary actresses in lifetime performances.
Good times, when talent really meant something.
If you noticed back then every actor and actress look different today all the actors and actresses look alike they look like little boys and girls instead of glamorous women and handsome men and most of them can't act
RIP and long live Burt Lancaster (November 2, 1913 - October 20, 1994), aged 80
You will always be remembered as a legend.
Damn, what an amazing roster for best actress. Natalie, Audrey, Geraldine, Piper ... I wish they could have all won, but Sophia certainly deserved it. Brava!
*Greer wished her good health.*
*It worked because she is still living.*
Creer Garson murió en 1996.Evidentemente estas desinformada!
@@drecotallano9908 Greer wished Sophia good health. Sofía todavia vive. Yo sé que yo dije.
Miss Loren was one of the three greatest actresses of the last sixty years.
Great beauty and talent combined.
The other two were Vivian Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor.
Silvia George
De gustibus non est disputandum
Ma Sophia è bella.
Check Marriage Italian style (Matrimonio all'italiana), Yesterday, today and tomorrow (Ieri, Oggi, Domani), Peccato che sia una canaglia and -dulcis in fundo- the DeSica's cut in Boccaccio '70.
She will no longer be just a pair of legs
@@silviageorge7600 Sophia Loren is 1 van de mooiste vrouwen, misschien wel de mooiste... Ik heb nog nooit eerder een vrouw gezien met zo veel gezichten... En hoe ouder ze werd des te mooier... Ik snap niet wat er mis is met haar gezicht! Ze is een beauty!!! En wie dat niet vinden zijn gewoon jaloers op haar schoonheid!!! Zij is een echte klasse vrouw!!!!! Forever Sophia Loren!!! Ik zou zeggen ga eens meer films van haar kijken, er zijn er nog veel op dvd en je zult versteld staan hoe ze er iedere keer weer uitziet. Altijd weer een nieuw gezicht! Onvoorstelbaar dat een iemand haar niet mooi vindt. Daar kan ik niet inkomen...
@@cico1968 ik ben het helemaal met u eens!!! Sophia Loren is een klasse vrouw een beauty! Ik snap ook niks van de mensen die haar niet mooi vinden. Ze is 1 van de mooiste vrouwen, misschien wel de mooiste. Hoe ouder ze werd hoe mooier en een vrouw met zoveel gezichten heb ik nooit eerder gezien. In iedere film ziet ze er weer zo anders uit en oooh zo mooi... Beautiful Sophia Loren ❤❤❤❤❤
I've seen both performances and Sophia's win was well deserved.
Art is, well Art. It's not a pastry to be compared to another pastry. It's value is in the eyes A that particular, pair of eyes!
Che tempi affascinanti. Che attori
Già
Oggi tutto volgarita
Burt Lancaster: un mito
Burt Lancaster, what a hunk!
Sophia Loren was the most beautiful woman on earth.
Amazing performance of Sofía, in the role of Cesira. Ir was intended to be performed by Ana Magnani and Sophia to play the rol of Rosseta.
When Magnani declained her rol, Sofía claimed it for herself in spite of being so young.
She play a more of 40 years old mother, so convincent as the author requested in his novel (Alberto Moravia).
It's incredible to me that Deborah Kerr was not nominated this year for her amazing performance in "The Innocents".
such a great film, the innocents, it scared me!!
Sophia Loren more than earned her Oscar for her deeply moving performance as a strong devoted mother in Two Women. But GIMINEE CRICKETS! How could they NOT nominate Shirley MacClaine in The Children’s Hour????
Sophia Loren was in Italy that night. She didn't want to fly all the way to Hollywood to only end up losing. However, she shrieked when she was told the next morning that she had won.
While I love Sophia, Natalie Wood gave the best performance of the year as Deanie Loomis in the the unforgettable Splendor in the Grass.
Burt is gorgeous! One of the most handsome men ever!
pellebravesskylar - They don’t make men like Burt anymore!!! What a hunk, a mans man!!! Actors if today look so wimpy compared to Burt, that smile, hair, physic & gorgeous eyes!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@madambutterfly7513 I met Burt Lancaster in 1970, As a young African American woman going through the "Black experience" I told Mr. Lancaster (Who also went to high school in New York City) How I fell in love with him after seeing Trapeze. He looked at and smiled.I also told him that I was a New Yorker and a Scorpio just like him, he gave me that beautiful smile of his and replied: You might be a New Yorker and Scorpio like I am But I'm not as pretty as you are! As he walked away, I shouted "That Mr is a matter of opinion! HE WAS GORGEOUS 😍
@@roxannesantoro7503 Right on!!
In tie and tails, he was gorgeous
Audrey es mi actriz favorita, pero los que dicen que Sophia no merecía el Oscar es porque NUNCA han visto Dos Mujeres.
I watched yesterday her interview and she explained why she wasn,t there, she simply did not want others to see her being disappointed if she cant get oscars. What of a bad decision it was. She was at her peak of her beauty and this Oscars was the peak of her achievement!
ORGOGLIO ITALIANO MA IN PARTICOLARE NAPOLETANO!!! Una performance stupenda e non sono mai stata così contenta di sentire il nome della vincitrice quanto qui!❤
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Burt was a stud!
Sophia provided a terrific performance in "Two Woman". I think that they all provided wonderful performances; any one of them could have won.
this was a year when they all deserved the Oscar ! p.s. Greer Garson was stunning and brilliant !
Greer Garson is class for accepting Sophia's Oscar on her behalf
Two women. I cried reading the novel by Alberto Moravia and the touching performance of Cesira by Sofía Loren.👏👏👏👍👏👏👏❤️🎁🌹🌺
I did not recognize a middle-aged Greer Garson. I've seen her in "Mrs. Minniver", and that's it.
Nice dress.
Greer Garson was almost sixty at the time of this gala!
1961 - 2020 another Oscar for Sophia Loren for The Life Ahead 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
What's so satisfying about these vintage Oscar programs is the richness of the competition.
Amazing actresses up for the oscar that year, Piper was amazing though...heartbreaking.
+Jonathan Wilkinson When I heard the line-up, I had the same thought. Not only is this a group of very fine actresses, but each film had a very high-quality script, the kind less and less found today, alack, alas.
The five performances are amazing
Greer Garson looked beautiful. And she had charm and class to spare. And she proved she could make a short speech!
1:16 Warren Beatty with nominee Natalie in the audience--beautiful couple. And Burt Lancaster was certainly easy on the eyes too.
Not only was it the first win for a foreign film EVER, it stood that was for decades until recently?? "Two Women" really was Italy's and Loren's "story" about the world war that had just ended, but the consequences were still very real in Europe all the way into the late sixties, and even still today.
I just watched Two Women. Loren was spectacular. I have no idea how mothers do it.
I saw "Two Women" in 1960-61, both in Italian & then, after it won
the Academy Award, dubbed in English & love the 'grittiness' of it!
It's amazing, that at only age 25-26, she was originally considered
to play the daughter & Anna Magnani, the mother!! Glad they changed!
I hope your next nomination for The Life Ahead, Sophia. You are a Goddess!!!
Too bad Sophia wasn't there to accept! wonderful film ! Greer looked beautiful- she also was wonderful !
She was nominated also three years later and She did not show up.
Sophia Loren, a classy, sexy, and smart woman. Who is proud of her Italian ancestry. And womanhood. I've always been a big fan of her.
I feel so lucky that Sophia Loren and Kim Novak, two of the major personalities of Hollywood's golden age, are still alive!!!
Funny how Greer Garson accepts an Oscar from Burt. The previous year she presented the Oscar to Burt for Best Actor. I remember she commented "So richly deserved". Burt was very taken by the comment and mentioned it in his speech.
JerseySurvivor Also funny how Maximilian Schell receives his Oscar from Joan Crawford and then the next year Crawford accepts Anne Bancroft's Oscar from Schell because Anne was on Broadway at the time.
Sophia Loren is the Diva of divas.
UN PREMIO MERECIDISIMO PARA LA GRAN SOFIA LOREN. AMADA EN ARGENTINA POR TODOS
Anna Magnini, who won for the Rose Tattoo about six years earlier, was offered the role but had to resign due to illness. She suggested that Loren replace her!
She wasn't there because she wasn't fine. She wrote it in the her new book ''Yesterday, today, tomorrow-My life/Ieri, oggi, domani-La mia vita''. Kisses and many hugs from Italy, Sophia.
That's not true.
@@maxpower2093 she was reportedly too nervous to attend
@@ElizaDolittle yes, I do know it, but she was perfectly fine
Sophia Loren is a LEGEND.
For her to win out over a group of A-list Hollywood Actresses is amazing, I never even knew that she had won an Oscar. I'll have to watch this movie.
Didn't realize Gerry Page was there. I've never seen any pics of her that night. And she looks GREAT!
People: That looks like Millie Perkins to the left of Gerry and Oscar Winner Donald Crisp right behind w/program.
Natalie, seated behind nominee Stuart Whitman, is with Warren Beatty in glasses. And that's singer Andy Williams poking up 2 rows behind Warren.
Proxys: Greer looks sensational!! God I miss people like that! Look at that bearing! A STAR!!!!
In 1974 I think it was, Sophia Loren came to see my show and wanted to know if my hair was real. She lived 1/2 block from my apartment in Paris. I lived on 16 Ave. Montaigne, she lived on Ave GeorgeV between Montaign and the champs Elysee. What a beauty she still is...
As a kid I saw that movie, alone, and it has always remained with me, and that was when Hollywood was glamorous.
Can't believe that Greer Garson at the Academy Awards!!!! She was pushing 60 back then right!!!!
Sophia orgoglio italiano e soprattutto napoletano.
I love my Naples and Sophia.
She totally deserved this♥
Sophia was so earthy in this movie.
Very much deserving actress
Sophia Loren in Two Women best performance ever
Superbly wonderful film the 2 women.
The film is called `Two Women´ actually. :)
It's called, La ciociara
Burt what a gorgeous looking man
Sofia, una donna bella , elegante, seria e intelligente, come poche nel suo ambiente di lavoro , vero onore per l' Italia.
This totally BELONGED to Natalie. Bad enough she got jipped on Rebel and Love with The Proper Stranger, but Splendor was arguably her defining performance. And let's face it, as far as acting as well as star quality and character go Sophia had nothing on Natalie. Poor Nat, they should give an honorary Oscar in her honor
lol, youve probably never seen Two Women if you think that Loren `had nothing´ on Wood. Lorens acting was completely convincing with the pain, suffering & enjoyability. One of the most deserving wins ever. Wood was decent at best for hells sake, lol.
@@drstrangelove6558 Just saw this comment and it hurts my eyes. Natalie "decent at best" in what probably is the best coming of age performance of all time? You must be on something good... Sophia was very very good but she doesn't even touch Natalie in a performance that marked many people's life.
Interestingly, of the nominees , Loren, Wood, Paige, Hepburn and Laurie all won or would go on to win an Academy award and/or a Golden Globe award for their acting . Talented nominees that year!
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She wasn't about to fly to the states and then be rejected. I think her remaining in Italy showed class.
I love Sophia Loren.
I voted for Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast @ Tiffany's
I hope Sophia Loren wins oscar for Life Ahead n her son wins for best Director!!! And hope there Won't be any mess ups w almost Forgetting her Name when saying all the Nominations like this one!!! Blessings! April 11th 2021, fingers crossed! 🤞🏼🏆🙏🏻💕😷
Natalie wood should have won it. She had 2 great movies in that year.
Back when the Oscars were wonderful and actors just stuck to acting and being gracious instead of grandstanding and gaslighting.
Tee Tarquin, thank you and amen.
Gary Henzler, yes, actors are laborers who reflect what is happening in our society. Tee Tarquin is not blaming anyone other than the actor (s) himself, herself (themselves) for grandstanding and gaslighting. Today's actors have taken advantage of these awards programs to present their own political views as their acceptance speeches or "off the cuff" remarks. Art for the sake of art was always an underlying motive and theme when the Hollywood studios were all powerful. Of course, no one is forcing Tee Tarquin to watch, but if he were already watching and an actor wins an award and steps up to his/her soapbox, Tee Tarquin and many others are going to formulate their opinions on such.
tee tarquin These reality shows, that promote PATHOLOGICAL LIARS, such as trump. GRANDSTANDER trump. I imagine he GASLIGHTS his family too.
@@zyxw2024 you mean like Obama and Clinton to
@@onlythewise1 I'm a Republican, not a trumpster. That will shut you up.
@riv4life618 Natalie was great , however it was Sophia ( who had the disadvantage of staring in a foreign language film ), who deservedly won the Oscar.
sabine1470 Why is that a disadvantage?
When the Oscars were the Oscars and acting was genuine. Piper Laurie and Geraldine Page were nominated too? Wowww ♥ Wonderful ladies.
Viva Sophia!
How sad is that the first Italian Oscar Winner (Actor/Actress) Anna Magnani was not there to receive the prize personally, she thought she would not win, then the second Italian winner, Sophia, was not there either. (And what a coincidence that initally Anna was cast for the mother role and Sophia was cast as the daughter in the "two women". Then it was decided that Sophia plays the mother, and she did indeed.)
Anyway, the third Italian Oscar winner, Roberto, was present to get his prize and what a ceremony. And guess, who gives the prize, Sophia.
Anna Magnani was absolutely amazing.
Wonderful superb great actress Sophia Loren
Great performances that year. I had the experience of seeing previews at the theater of Geraldine Page in Summer and Smoke and in Sweet Bird of Youth back to back, two totally different characters, showing amazingly her incredible range of abilities.
Natalie Wood should have won this year for her incrediblely nuanced performance in Splendor in the Grass
Sophia Loren still with us what a blessing two women was hard movie to watch Sophia deserve that Oscar she laid that part out so believable and real l cry right her ❤ much love to her always. 2:39
As much as i like Sophia, this award should have gone to Natalie Wood who was spectacular in "Splendor in the Grass" the big omission here however was Marilyn Monroe in "The Misfists" probably the only movie that she really deserved an Oscar for!!
Natalie’s finest moment. Robbed.
Five powerful performers in five powerful films.
"wherever you are" sounds funny
Sophia is extraordinary.
It was a very competitive line up ... Sophia did not think she was going to win and she did she thought she would probably faint ...