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Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren stripped off and pouted with an abandon that took the prudish 50s by storm and their sex goddess image endures even as both turn 75 this week.But they have taken distinctly different paths since those early days that shocked a Europe still rebuilding after World War II.
Only three years ago, Loren, then 72, posed semi-nude on a white bed for the 2007 edition of the racy Pirelli calendar -- sharing months with the Spanish actress Penelope Cruz and other much younger celebrities.
The voluptuous Loren, who still sports plunging necklines, said at the time she was thrilled by the experience. "I didn't think they would ask me such a thing," she said, "then I thought, what the hell, I am going to do it anyway."She also took a swipe last year at US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin for calling herself a pitbull in lipstick. Bardot called Palin a "disgrace to women", saying "no pitbull ... is as dangerous as you are."
Born September 28, 1934, into a well-off Paris home, the French bombshell made it into "Elle" magazine with the help of family ties when only in her teens and at age 18 starred in her first film, before marrying first husband, Vadim.
Though the first of four marriages lasted only five years, her work with Vadim caused such scandal that B.B., as she was soon known, quickly became an icon of erotica for some, a symbol of liberation for others.
Seeing her sway to a sizzling mambo beat or stretch out in hot sand "will make you gasp and never forget" said the trailer of And God Created Woman.
Bardot, said feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir, "does what she pleases and that is what upsets."
Loren on the other hand, 75 on Sunday, was an illegitimate child raised by a single mother in abject poverty in the war-torn slums outside Naples.
After trying out for beauty contests, she scored a few small roles on screen and at only 16, in 1951, played a young slave girl. That same year she unveiled her breasts, posing nude for the first but very last time.
"When Sophia Loren is naked," she once said, "that is a lot of nakedness."
Commenting once on another Italian bombshell, Gina Lollobrigida, Loren said: "I don't think she's positively mad about me. Because I'm bigger than she? It's possible. Who knows?"Loren worked with great Italian directors including Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica and Ettore Scola but unlike Bardot, who starred with French legends such as Jean-Luc Godard or Louis Malle, went on to work in Hollywood.
Playing alongside stars such as Clark Gable, Peter Sellers, John Wayne and Frank Sinatra, she scooped an Oscar for Two Women in 1962 and a second in 1991 honouring her entire career.
Amid her 90-odd films -- she plans a biopic on her own life in which she will play her mother -- she co-starred in 13 with fellow Italian Marcello Mastroianni, probably her best-known partner.
In the 1964 movie , Mastroianni sits on the bed staring and sweating and roaring with joy as the sex icon peels off her clothes, swinging suspender-belt and stockings.
Their last film together was the 1994 movie by Robert Altman Pret-a-porter.
Bardot, however, took her pretty pout off screen long ago.
Unable to look after her son by a second marriage and unable to cope with life as a celebrity, she resigned from film-making shortly before turning 40 to pose instead on icebergs alongside baby seals as she switched from sex symbol to saviour. Loren never responded.
Claire Rosemberg/AFP/Expatica
yes,I think loren is bigger than lollobrigida.Infact sofia has a bigger ass,a bigger nose.Nothing else bigger than Gina, the great gina.
Loren freak out.She thinks to be the biggest one,in fact she would like to receive the Nobel Award for her birthday.No joke.
yes,I think loren is bigger than lollobrigida.Infact sofia has a bigger ass,a bigger nose.Nothing else bigger than Gina, the great gina.
Loren freak out.She thinks to be the biggest one,in fact she would like to receive the Nobel Award for her birthday.No joke.
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