Source: Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nEdoardo Ponti. Loren’s portrayal of Madame Rosa, a Holocaust survivor and former prostitute who forms a transformative bond with a Senegalese orphan named Momo, earned her accolades, including a David di Donatello Award for Best Actress. The film also received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. Loren’s decision to return to acting was inspired by the book and the opportunity to collaborate with her son as the director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Iconic actress Sophia Loren, celebrated for her illustrious career, found herself hospitalized after a recent fall at her Geneva residence. The beloved Italian star suffered fractures to her hip and femur, prompting surgery. Fortunately, the procedure yielded positive results, offering hope for her swift recovery and well-being. Sophia Loren’s Honorary Citizenship and Restaurant Inauguration Delayed […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":21179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,11],"tags":[774,6252,1294,1607,1444,1519,150,6251,3553,1608],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21180,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21158\/revisions\/21180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}