More Topless Sophia Loren
More than five years ago, I posted a scan of a much-folded topless centerfold photo of a young and rather perky Sophia Loren. A helpful commenter partially identified the movie and volunteered that the topless scenes existed only in the French release. But I was not the porn researcher then that I am now, and I never followed up.
Well, it’s time to do that.
First, here’s a better-quality version of that same semi-nude photo, minus creases and branding:
The movie, it turns out, was Era lui… sì! sì! from 1951. (That means “It’s him… Yes! Yes!”) It turns out that they took quite a few different versions of the topless publicity shots, with slightly different posings, against that same background. Most were in black and white (at least the versions that have been published) like this one:
Exceptions exist, like this magazine spread (note the staple). However, the rather-fanciful color palette makes one wonder about subsequent colorization:
The caption to this next pair of shots (which appear to be scanned from a magazine) offers some confirmation of the “for the French version of the movie” tale, quoting Sophia Loren as saying:
“For the French version, they wanted me to have my chest bare. I did not want to but … I was hungry. After the scene, they come and say they must do some still pictures of me with nothing on top. I thought it had to be.”
Note the bikinis in the bottom “tame” version of the shot above. They appear to have been the costume for the non-French version of the actual movie, too. See this harem-girls scene:
Shall we take a moment at this time to sympathize with the actors playing the two harem guards standing there in the background? “I got a bit part, but nobody will ever see me — I’m standing in the background next to the hookah behind a bunch of half-naked harem girls! And they are all sooo hot!” “Shit, man, you might as well get cast as a potted plant!”
Anyway, in case you were wishing that harem scene I just showed you didn’t have the stupid flowery bikinis, don’t worry. We’ve got you (un)covered:
Now, how’s that for a more-adequate exposition of the whole “Sophia Loren topless in an old movie” blog post topic?
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Awesome! I think that means I get to knock of for the day and go to the liquor store and the casino, right? ;-)
To think that now Ms. Loren is the mother of the distinguished Italian conductor, Carlo Ponti,
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These photos are tasteful and truly portray the real beauty of a great and legendary actress like Sophia Loren.
It would be great if the French version of the movie can be uploaded in this blog for Sophia Loren-s fans.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any ready way to host movies.
If you have the movie you could post it to The Internet Archive:) https://archive.org/details/ChildBride
Ms. Loren is probably the sexiest woman ever. Not perfect, but damn close.
One of the worlds greatest natural beauties. Facial structure perfection.Thanks so much for your research..really appreciate the time and effort.
Regards
Sophiamania
I am 63 yrs old, and have loved Sophia Loren in the movies and still photos my whole life. I never knew these pics existed until today. My dream has come true :)
Hi Bacchus, do you actually have the video of the French version of this film? If so possibly you could host it to mega.nz? Or maybe you could email me the link if you dont want to post it here. I’d appreciate it very much, thanks.
I’m sorry, I don’t.
I should hasten to add that if anybody ever does come up with a copy of the naked/French version of this movie (some reports are that all copies were destroyed, but this is the sort of rumor that often circulates about rare material, so I do not credit it unduly) I will indeed make certain that it gets hosted in a secure public place. Most likely: the Internet Archive, but other possibilities exist.
Hi there, big Sophia Loren fan. I made a colorized image of her good quality nude. Please feel free to share…
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I know it’s nitpicking, yet… the actual translation of the movie title would be “That was him… Yes! Yes!”. How kinky is it to focus on verbal tenses when there is so much more to this post?
The French movie referred to was “Eres Lui? Si Si” (or something like that).
I read years ago that her husband Carlo Ponti arranged to have all the copies destroyed shortly after the film was released. (Let’s hope he was unsuccessful.)
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Years ago I read that her husband Carlo Ponti organized the destruction of all copies…… Don’t worry about it, we’ll never know about it again.