The Hollywood legend recalled the memorable night in her 2014 memoirAhead of the 2025 Oscars, PEOPLE is looking back at past ...

Sophia Loren has had an incredible career throughout ... "I finished the film Houseboat [with Cary Grant], and I went back to Italy to continue my career," Loren recalled on The View in 2016.

Cary Grant told her she’d won in a call that “changed my life.” Loren will be present for the launch of the Academy Museum and Cinecittà‘s Sophia Loren: La Diva di Napoli screening series.

Milton H. Greene photographed some of the biggest movie stars in the world during the Golden Age of Hollywood: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Marlene Dietrich.