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Sophia Loren, in Role of 'Judith', Portrays Jewish Heroine in Israel

wife on the Israeli motion picture tumes were designed by her own of his forthcoming filmization of
location to the modern epic Roman fashion expert, Gia Roman- Boris Pasternak's "Dr. Zhivago" to
be photographed by David Lean in
HOLLYWOOD — Via ROME — "Judith," and was very much im- ini, and flown in from Italy.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Carlo Ponti, producer-husband of pressed by the State of Israel and
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London and Madrid. Ponti calls
Friday, November 6, 1964-37 Italian film star Sophia Loren, told the skill of its people.
Carlo Ponti tells me that Sophia this epic "the most important mo-
picture of my career."
us that he has been visiting his
We were sitting with Ponti in Loren, immediately after comple- tion
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tion of "Judith," will go to London
his
office
at
the
Piaiza
D'Ara
Coeli
"A house is judged by the
Joseph E._ Levine, meanwhile,
in Rome, overlooking the Campi- to resume her part in his own
company it keeps"
doglio and the famed Michelangelo production (for M-G-M release) of has completed in Moscow a co-
flight of 122 steps, in a Renaissance "Operation Crossbow" opposite production venture, "Italians Are
palazzo whose upper floors are oc- George Peppard, Trevor Howard Good People," that will show the
cupied by the living quarters of and John Mills, in a hard-hitting leaders of Russia in a better light
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TASTY
the famed actress-producer couple. story dealing with the assault of than does "Dr. Zhivago." However,
German rockets on England during this film deals with the period of
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Miss Loren was still in Israel the latter part of World War II.
World War II and two reluctant
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completing her role of a kib-
While Carlo Ponti has a huge Italian warriors, Peter Falk and
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butznick,
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production program involving co- Arthur Kennedy, who are trapped
from Germany who came to the
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ventures with Joseph E.- Levine, at the battle front of Stalingrad.
Holy Land with but one aim in
high budget films with Miss Loren Guiseppi de Santis directs the pic-
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and the action is centered around
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the country's struggle for indepen-
dence. When the illegal immigrant
Judith is being asked to identify
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in Rome several years ago, when
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talking to Carlo Ponti and Sophia
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Loren about a romantic love yarn
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play was completed in 1963, Daniel
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Mann was signed as director,
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shot in Israel; in and around
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