Actress Sophia Loren peering over the top of ROMA newspaper, July 1961. See more photos of the classic movie star from the LIFE archive by clicking the link below. (📷 Alfred Eisenstaedt/LIFE Picture Collection) LIFEMagazine SophiaLoren Hollywood
Alfred Eisenstaedt The LIFE Picture Collection/ShutterstockAlfred Eisenstaedt The LIFE Picture Collection/ShutterstockPowerful, enduring relationships can sometimes develop between photographers and their subjects. Such was definitely the case with LIFE’s Alfred Eisenstaedt and the luminous Italian film star, Sophia Loren.
“Eisie must have shot thousands of pictures of me that no one ever saw,” Loren told LIFE.com, fondly recalling her camera-toting “shadow.” Here, LIFE.com presents a series of Eisenstaedt’s finest portraits of Loren, made at the very height of her international fame. “When I met Eisie,” Loren recalled, “it was really a love at first sight. He became my shadow. But he never tried to interfere in my life. No, he just kept on shooting and smiling, and was happy just to be with me like I was to be with him! I miss him. He couldn’t do any wrong to me. I trusted him so much. He’s one of those who doesn’t grow on trees, as my friend Cary Grant used to say.”
Asked by LIFE.com about the qualities Eisenstaedt brought out in her that other photographers did not, Loren said: “That I was a girl, joyful for her life, because she accepted anything that came with her work. Just being really, completely happy. Yes.”“At that time,” she said, “when LIFE magazine came out every week, it was something very important for a career the best thing that could happen to an actress. It was something unbelievable.
“This is something I don’t like to live with—sad memories,” she confided. “Life gets very hard when you lose someone so important to you, and you don’t need to be surrounded by the memories all the time, which are so strong and hit you in the most unexpected moments. We had a great, great love. The more I go on without him, the more I miss him. It was a great feeling it was great in life and it was great in our work.”“Are you kidding? I think it’s wonderful.
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