Carlo Ponti, Sofia Loren's Husband Dead At 94

ROME, ITALY: Prominent Italian film producer Carlo Ponti, husband of Italian actress Sofia Loren, died overnight at a Geneva hospital. He was 94. Born in Magenta, northern Italy, Ponti began producing films in the early 1940s, making his name by co-producing Federico Fellini's "La Strada" with Dino De Laurentis in 1954. He had more than 140 films to his credit including three dozen with Loren, as well as David Lean's "Doctor Zhivago". He discovered Loren, then a model and beauty queen, and married her in 1957 when she was just 22. They had two sons, Carlo and Edoardo. (File picture 1965)