TCM Announces Oscar®-Winning Screen Legend Sophia Loren to Join Robert Osborne For Live from the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival Interview

Loren Will Also Introduce a Screening of Marriage Italian Style (1964)

TCM (Turner Classic Movies) today announced Academy Award®-winning actress Sophia Loren (Two Women) is set to attend the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival, taking place in Hollywood March 26-29 for a sit-down interview with TCM host Robert Osborne about her life and extraordinary career. In addition to the interview, Loren will be on-hand to introduce a screening of Marriage Italian Style (1964), for which she received an Oscar® nomination for Best Actress. Loren is also a recipient of an Honorary Career Achievement Academy Award®. The interview will be taped Saturday, March 28, in front of a live audience of festival passholders at the The Ricardo Montalbán Theatre. The interview will then air on TCM in spring 2016 as the original special Sophia Loren: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival.

"For more than six decades, Sophia Loren has been an enchanting force of nature on movie screens across the globe," said Osborne. "She is one of the great beauties and magical leading ladies of film. It's going to be a great treat to learn from her first hand about her life as a film star and the people she's worked with such as Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, John Wayne, Marcello Mastroianni and Daniel Day Lewis while also earning an Academy Award® for her performance in Two Women."

Each year, the TCM Classic Film Festival features an extended interview taped in front of a live audience for telecast on TCM under the Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival banner. In 2010, the first TCM Classic Film Festival welcomed two-time Oscar® winner Luise Rainer, who was 100 at the time. In 2011, Peter O'Toole was the featured guest, followed in 2012 by Osborne's interview with actress Kim Novak. In 2013, Osborne sat down with Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint, and last year, Academy Award®-winner Alan Arkin was featured.

Loren joins an already exciting roster at this year's festival, including previously announced appearances by Ann-Margret for a screening of The Cincinnati Kid (1973) and former astronaut Captain James Lovell for the 20^th anniversary world premiere restoration of Apollo 13 (1995). Academy Award®-winners Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer are confirmed to walk the red carpet for the festival's opening night 50^th Anniversary gala presentation of The Sound of Music (1965).