Carlo Ponti

...of the Russian National Orchestra since 2000. Carlo Ponti Jr. is son of Italian film producer Carlo Ponti and actress Sophia Loren. Carlo Ponti has rapidly established himself on the international scene as one of the most imaginative of...

In this article: Russian National Orchestra, United States, Modest Mussorgsky, Sophia Loren, and Pictures at an Exhibition

Carlo Ponti (11 December 1912 - 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with over 140 production credits, and the husband of Italian movie star Sophia Loren. Ponti was born in Magenta, Italy and studied law at the University of...

In this article: Sophia Loren, Italy, La strada, Federico Fellini, World War II, University of Milan, and Milan

...What? (a.k.a. Che?, a.k.a. Diary Of Forbidden Dreams), a half-forgotten disaster he made using the lovely Italian villa of producer Carlo Ponti as his primary set. Then again, Polanski didn't write a screenplay around his set so much as he...

In this article: What?, Roman Polanski, Rome, Marcello Mastroianni, Terry Southern, DVD, Alice In Wonderland, and Roger Corman

...political allegory. The film ran for three weeks during the Dubcek era, but after the Prague Spring crackdown, was "banned forever". Carlo Ponti, the film's Italian producer, also took umbrage at the film and pulled his financing, leaving...

In this article: The Firemen's Ball, Paris, Cannes Film Festival, Ivan Passer, Milos Forman, Vrchlabi, and France

...tables but she got her break in her teens when she entered a beauty contest where one of the judges was leading married producer Carlo Ponti, 22 years her senior. Inevitably the two women were portrayed as rivals: the sultry, dark-haired...

In this article: Sophia Loren, Brigitte Bardot, Michael Winner, Paris, Trademark, Nine, Oscars, Operation Crossbow, and Roger Vadim

...a cover girl of Playboy magazine, rockstars like Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are at her feet, and even the Italian film producer Carlo Ponti tries to get her to sign a ten-year contract with her - alas, she declines. Her freedom is more...

In this article: Uschi Obermaier, Keith Richards, Natalia Avelon, Playboy magazine, Summer Wine, Amon Duul, and Ville Valo

It was nothing but a delusional fantasy. Loren repeatedly rejected his advances and remained with her husband, film producer Carlo Ponti. His fantasy took over, says Lewis. Sellers went around like a star-crossed lover, the...

In this article: Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Michael Parkinson, Sophia Loren, Lynne Frederick, Roger Lewis, and Princess Margaret

Conductor Carlo Ponti Jr. is the son of Italian film producer Carlo Ponti and actress Sophia Loren. Hear The Music Carlo Ponti Jr. conducts the Russian National Orchestra in performing Mussorgsky's works: "Pictures at an Exhibition...

In this article: Maurice Ravel, Russian National Orchestra, Orchestration, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Sophia Loren, Bare Mountain, and California

...because Cary Grant, who was married to someone else, fell in love with his co-star, Sophia Loren, who was in love with producer Carlo Ponti, who was splitting from his wife. On the day Loren filmed a marriage scene with Grant, she married...

In this article: Sophia Loren, Cast a Giant Shadow, Kirk Douglas, Lucille Ball, Academy Awards, Houseboat, Bob Hope, and Cary Grant

Carlo Ponti, an Italian-born film producer who bankrolled more than 150 movies, including "La Strada" and "Doctor Zhivago," and who was perhaps the most envied man in the world as the husband and mentor of actress Sophia Loren, died of a...

In this article: Sophia Loren, Oscar, David Lean, Anthony Quinn, Milos Forman, Doctor Zhivago, La strada, Dino De Laurentiis, and The Firemen's Ball