The sexy Sophia Loren was never shy about showing her cleavage back in her day, but since she was an actress in the 50s and 60s her nudity was limited. That being said there is legend about Sophia being topless in a movie called Era lui... si! si! but the nude scenes are supposedly lost to time. Let's take a look at this story for today's Throwback Thursday.
The movie was made in 1951 and was directed by Italian director Marino Girolami. The title for this comedy translates to "It's Him...Yes! Yes!" which makes it sound just as sexy. Anyway, this raunchy comedy starred a young Sophia Loren before she was a global sensation and an Oscar-winning actress. She was then a beauty queen who acted under the name Sophia Lazzaro and had a small role in this movie playing a model in a harem.
The movie had filmed a few topless scenes - which included Sophia sans shirt - that were filmed for the French audience. Apparently, in the 1950s the French loved movie nudity and the rest of the world was simply deprived. What gives?! Anyway, Girolami directed entire scenes that featured a ton of mammage. People have since claimed to have found the footage and want to restore it, but I have yet to see a good release with the real footage in it.
However, Sophia's husband Carlo Ponti allegedly was so upset by these scenes that he destroyed copies of the movie nudity. All we have left of the nude scenes are a few still shots of the topless women which is the only reason we really know about this. That being said, the nude stills look skincredible.
Sophia told a Swedish magazine in 1973 that she was actually not comfortable going nude because of her curvaceous figure. “I’m not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness.” I don't see anything wrong with a Sophia Loren-amount of nakedness. Check out some classic Sophia in this 2005 documentary called Looking for Sophia:
