Portrait of Sophia Loren

(Original Caption) Sophia Loren is one of the stars of Samuel Bronston's The Fall of the Roman Empire. Samuel Bronston's The Fall of the Roman Empire is directed by Anthony Mann from an original screenplay by Ben Barzman, Basilio Franchina and Philip Yordan with music by Dimitri Tiomkin. The Ultra-Panavision and technicolor film, relased by Paramount Pictures, stars Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason and Chirstopher Plummer. Co-starring Anthony Quayle, John Ireland, Mel Ferrer and Omar Sharif. Sophia Loren, here photographed by Bert Stern, portrays Lucilla, the daughter of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who tries to prevent the disintegration of Rome and the opposing ideas of its leaders during the second century, A.D.