Sophia Loren's mother had the makings of a Hollywood starlet. An aspiring actress, Romilda Villani began her career by winning a Greta Garbo lookalike contest hosted by MGM studios in Italy. The ...

Sophia Loren has enjoyed a fifty-year love affair with Switzerland. The actress – who hails from Rome – found the closest thing to home in Geneva's Old Town, purchasing a decadent apartment ...