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Producer, Carlo Ponti, was born Carlo Fortunaro Pietro Ponti on Dec 11, 1912 in Magenta, Italy. Ponti died at the age of 94 on Jan 10, 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland and was laid to rest in Cimitero di Magenta Cemetery in Lombardia, Lombardia, Italy.

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Carlo Ponti, Happy Birthday, 1912-2007 (2)

By C. S. Williams on Dec 11, 2013 From Classic Film Aficionados

From b-movies to social-dramas, actioners and comedies Carlo Ponti produced in excess of 150 movies, (more than 20 films with Dino De Laurentiis, as Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica) over the course of his 6-decade career; some not so good, but some were just??absolutely??brilliant! Executive Pr... Read full article


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Got to know his future wife Sofia Villone Scicolone at the "Miss Rome" competition and gave her the stage name Sophia Loren (1952).

After he had divorced from Giuliana Fiastri in Mexico, he married Sophia Loren in 1957. As the divorce was not legalized in Italy, he was accused of bigamy and his marriage to Loren was annulled in 1962. Thus, the couple and Ponti's first wife acquired French citizenship, so that he and Loren could marry again in 1966.

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959

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