She wanted no part of him once he was single.

This foreign born actress is out promoting her streaming documentary.

She talked about se.x with an A lister, but forgot to mention the time she had an affair with a co-star who then ended up getting divorced from his wife to be with the actress, who wanted no part of him once he was single.

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Cary Grant – The Life Ahead

Sophia Loren at 80 recalls her unconsummated affair with Cary Grant.

Sophia Loren has always seemed to epitomise glamour, pure sex and the Hollywood state of mind, even though many of her movies were, in fact, Italian. There is probably no greater on-screen chemistry than Sophia Loren and Cary Grant in Houseboat (1958). They met when they made The Pride and the Passion in 1957. They really were in love.

“I wanted to give in the book the facts of my life,” she says. “How I succeeded. How my life was during the war. People have written books about me and sometimes it was not real. I wanted to say what happened to me, because I am proud. I was really a nobody, a little girl, unhappy, in desperation because of the life I was living with my family and no father. Everyone was starving during the war.”

Her voice trails. What she was starving for all her life was a father. She had a father. She knew him. But he never married her mother, Romilda Villani. Romilda looked like a starlet. It was her dream to be an actress. When she was just 17, Romilda won a contest held in Italy by MGM Studios to find the new Greta Garbo – and the prize was to go to Hollywood. Her parents said she was too young and wouldn’t let her go. Romilda, according to her daughter, “oozed allure”.

Instead, she had a passionate, calamitous, on-off relationship with Riccardo Scicolone Murillo and became pregnant with Sophia. Murillo came from a good family but was one of these aristocratic losers. He gave his name to his first child but Sophia had to use her first pay cheque to buy it for her younger sister, Maria.

The older, authoritative male figure is something that she was always searching for, which is perhaps why she felt so instantly at home when she met Italian film producer and director Carlo Ponti, who was nearly 22 years older. Cary Grant was 30 years her senior.

At what point did she decide her father was a useless human being?

“When you are five, six, seven, you follow what your mother tells you because you want to make peace. You want the normality, which we didn’t have. My father would always come to see me when my mother sent him a telegram saying, ‘Sophia’s very sick. Come.’ It didn’t matter why he came. What I always wanted, because all my friends had one, was a father. I wanted to be like them, to be normal. But this was not possible. So you see these things when you’re 13, 14, when you’re almost grown up. You see it for what it is.”

Does she think this lack of a father is what attracted her to men who were older, that they were fulfilling a mentoring role? “No,” she says abruptly. “I was never attracted to men like that.” You see her nostrils flare slightly, still expressing disgust at her father.

She agrees, though, that she did want to learn. “And I had a lot to learn because I lived in a small town. There was no opportunity for me to have experiences even with younger men. It was all impossible, impossible.” – Source