Sophia Loren: The Italian Screen Goddess in Her Early Comedy “Two Nights with Cleopatra” (1954)
The black-and-white iconic photo you shared clearly shows Sophia Loren in one of her earliest starring roles: Cleopatra in the 1954 Italian comedy “Two Nights with Cleopatra” (original Italian title: Due Notti con Cleopatra). With her hair styled in elaborate Egyptian braids, a royal diadem adorned with jewels, a draped white one-shoulder gown featuring golden…