Sophia Loren

Vermicelli alla Sophia Loren: Rachel Roddy’s recipe for pasta with parsley pesto | A kitchen in Rome

A favourite old cookbook (and a pile of parsley to use up) inspire this simple salsa verde – parsley, anchovies, capers, olives – in a fairytale tangle of vermicelli

Rachel Roddy

10, May, 2021 @10:00 AM

On my radar: Douglas Stuart's cultural highlights

The Booker-prize winning author of Shuggie Bain on his love of Sophia Loren, Kylie’s classic hits and the haunting photography of Raymond Depardon

Kathryn Bromwich

03, Apr, 2021 @2:00 PM

The Life Ahead review – Sophia Loren's commanding comeback

The star’s expressive performance as a former sex worker caring for an orphaned child is the main draw in this sometimes formulaic tale directed by her son

Mark Kermode

15, Nov, 2020 @8:00 AM

The Life Ahead review – Sophia Loren serves up some grandmother courage

The imperious star is as magnetic as ever as a Holocaust survivor and creche worker who takes in a troubled Senegalese boy

Peter Bradshaw

12, Nov, 2020 @7:00 AM

Sophia Loren: 'The body changes. The mind does not'

The 86-year-old, star of the Netflix drama The Life Ahead, looks back at her own life, from the squalor of wartime Naples to the glamour of international fame

Xan Brooks

06, Nov, 2020 @6:00 AM

Cary Grant never proposed to me on set, says Sophia Loren

Actor puts myth to bed in Radio Times interview in which she also reveals her one regret

Aamna Mohdin

03, Nov, 2020 @6:00 AM

Sophia Loren returns to movies aged 86

Italian superstar plays a Holocaust survivor who befriends an orphan in Netflix film The Life Ahead, directed by her son Edoardo Ponti

Catherine Shoard

23, Sep, 2020 @11:29 AM

Frozen in Time: Sophia Loren, London, June 1960

On the set of The Millionairess, the Italian star blends in with the East End locals and discover the joy of whelks

Eva Wiseman

16, Jun, 2019 @11:00 AM

‘We were two giggling girls’: the day I had coffee with Sophia Loren

Jenny Selby-Green was a young reporter when she bumped into the film star in Aylesbury in 1958

Hannah Booth

27, Jan, 2017 @4:00 PM

The day I learned about Charlie Chaplin's bizarre directing style with Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren

It’s 1967, and Tippi Hedren joins Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren on the set of A Countess from Hong Kong

Tippi Hedren

27, Nov, 2016 @10:30 AM

Doreen Spooner recalls her time as a photographer on Testosterone Alley

The Daily Mirror’s celebrated photographer, the first female hired by the picture desk of a popular newspaper, tells of her ‘intoxicating’ years on Fleet Street

Roy Greenslade

04, Nov, 2016 @2:55 PM

Revel Barker's memoir captures the madness of the old Mirror

Book recounts Fleet Street’s days of unlimited expenses amid an alcoholic haze