Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Villani Scicolone in Rome in 1934. Her mother, Romilda Villani, was an aspiring actress and piano teacher who fell for Riccardo Scicolone, a notorious womanizer who ...

While the drama may seem like it could be based on a true story, it’s actually not. The Life Ahead is an adaptation of the 1975 French novel “La vie devant soi,” (“The Life Before Us”) by author ...