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Originally Posted by cufan86
I don’t know the episode but that is definitely the Mary Tyler Moore show. That is her apartment and the actor is Bill Quinn, who played her father.
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Thanks for the conformation cufan86. I didn't know for sure, as it had been a find on You tube and had little detail to it. As for this week's video clip, this is another find on You tube, and stars Sophia Loren as the title heroine Madame Sans-Gene, in a film from 1961. She played real life laundress Catherine Hubscher who ended up marrying a general during the Napoleonic era, who later rose to become the Duke of Denzig. She was known by the title moniker because of her free language and lack of embarrassment, and certainly the film clip here is rather bawdy. She goes to help some soldiers shift a cannon that has become stuck in the street, and one of the soldiers decides to give her a hand. Sounds like a perfect gentleman until she realizes where he's got his hands! After giving her bum a good grab a number of times (under the pretext of helping push her to push the cannon), he then decides to grab her breasts, much to her shock. After admonishing him for mistaking her for a prostitute (at least, I presume that's what she's telling him, as it's in a foreign language), she sends him on his way and he is later seen slapping the bum of another young lady a couple of times as he leads her to her room. Unusually for me, I've just uploaded the clip as it is, without the "repeat" trick I usually add to the video, as I feel it suits this clip better.
This clip also benefits from Sophia having a wet and see through top, so you get to see what star talents attracted the Italian agents when she started out. Indeed, Miss Loren started out as a beauty queen before being cast in films at just 16. But it was two years later that she came to notice in the film Two Nights with Cleopatra (1953), aged 18, where she had to do some rather revealing pics to promote the film where she appeared topless! (Pics are included). If only today's stars would be so conscientious. Either way, it worked. After finding fame in Italy in The Gold of Naples (1954), she ended up going to Hollywood, where she had major success in Houseboat (1958), The Millionairess (1960), and Two Women (1961), which won her Best Actress at the Oscars. Still acting now at the unbelievable age of 87.