Sofia Loren
On September 20, 1934, at Rome’s Clinica Regina Margherita, Romilda Villani welcomed her daughter Sofia Scicolone into the world. Fourteen years later, Sofia would dominate beauty pageants, and begin working toward her dream of becoming an actress. She would eventually change the spelling of her name to Sophia, and experiment with the last name Lazzaro before settling on Loren. She would go on to accept acting awards from all over the globe, and become the first and only woman to win a Best Actress for a foreign film at the Oscars in America. But on this day, in the hospital’s charity ward for unmarried women, Sophia was just another child born into poverty. Sadly, Sophia’s father, Riccardo Scicolone, repeatedly refused to marry Romilda. However, he did sign an affidavit that confirmed his relationship to Sophia and gave her his last name. As a single mother, Romilda struggled to support her new daughter. Shortly after Sophia’s birth, Romilda had been given a medicine that inadvertently caused her to stop lactating. Then Sophia developed a condition in which she was no longer able to drink cow’s milk. At one point the landlord suggested Romilda abandon Sophia. “She’s all skin and bones. Just let her die,” the woman told Romilda. “No one will blame you.” With her daughter near death, Romilda left Rome and returned home to Pozzuoli, Italy. Though already struggling to put food on the table, Sophia’s grandmother, Luisa, managed to scrape together enough money for a wet nurse, in effect saving her granddaughter’s life. This was not the case several years later, when the Sophia’s sister Maria was born. Perhaps attempting to avoid additional child support, Riccardo refused to sign a paternity document. Without her father’s name, Maria experienced overwhelming pain and embarrassment. She was even unable to attend school, because during that time in Italy, children were prohibited from taking exams if they could not put a “proper” name on them. It was not until more than a decade after Maria’s birth, as Sophia received her first sizeable paycheck for her performance in the Adia, that Riccardo had a proposition. He offered to sign Maria’s papers for one million lire (approximately $1,500), the exact amount Sophia had just earned. Though she had hoped to purchase other items the family needed, putting an end to Maria’s suffering was more important. Without hesitation, Sophia gave the entire paycheck to Riccardo.
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