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Sophia Loren at 80 recalls her unconsummated affair with Cary Grant

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  Sophia Loren at 80 recalls her  unconsummated affair with Cary Grant   Sophia Loren Sophia Loren at 80 recalls her unconsummated affair with Cary Grant Still charming, engaging and beautiful at 80, screen icon Sophia Loren reminisces about her early years, path to stardom, great romances - and her love of eggplant parmesan. By Chrissy Iley November 13, 2014 — 12.25pm Sophia Loren has always seemed to epitomise glamour, pure sex and the Hollywood state of mind, even though many of her movies were, in fact, Italian. There is probably no greater on-screen chemistry than Sophia Loren and Cary Grant in  Houseboat  (1958). They met when they made  The Pride and the Passion  in 1957. They really were in love. I loved the chapters about Grant in her new autobiography,  Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life as a Fairy Tale . I have gone to Geneva, where she has lived for the past 36 years, to meet her and discuss the book. She is wearing a black-and-white ...

CARY GRANT ,BRITISH ACTOR BORN 1904 ,JANUARY 18 - 1986 NOVEMBER 29

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CARY GRANT ,BRITISH ACTOR  BORN 1904 ,JANUARY 18 - 1986 NOVEMBER 29 Cary Grant  Born January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, UK Died November 29, 1986 in Davenport, Iowa, USA  (cerebral hemorrhage) Birth Name Archibald Alec Leach Height 6' 1½" (1.87 m) Mini Bio (1) Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I." Cary Grant was born Archibald Alexander Leach on January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. His early years in Bristol would have been an ordinary lower-middle-class childhood, except for one extraordinary event. At age nine, he came home from school one day and was told his mother had gone off to a seaside resort. However, the real truth was that she had been placed in a mental institution, where she would remain for years, and he was never told about it (he would not see...