In the summer of 1957, under the sun of Ávila, in Spain, Cary Grant began courting Sophia Loren with intimate dinners and letters of religious fervor. Hollywood’s most desired actor, the man who had perfected for decades the art of seeming unattainable, lost his mind to his Italian co-star in filming the film Pride and Passion. And he did so with an intensity that had nothing of the gallant that knew the world. A girl from the suburbsShe was not…
In the summer of 1957, under the sun of Ávila, in Spain, Cary Grant began courting Sophia Loren with intimate dinners and letters of religious fervor. Hollywood’s most desired actor, the man who had perfected for decades the art of seeming unattainable, lost his mind to his Italian co-star in filming the film Pride and Passion. And he did so with an intensity that had nothing of the gallant that knew the world. A girl from the suburbsShe was not…