Sophia Loren and Burgess met in Italy in the late 1970s. There was some discussion of Loren taking the part of Beatrice Joanna, the main female protagonist, in a film version of Burgess’s 1962 novel The Wanting Seed. The film was never made, but Loren and Burgess seemed to get on, as the warm inscription on this recently discovered photograph attests.

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