dir: Jean Neguelsco
THE HOLLYWOODIZATION OF SOPHEEYA LURING
Cracked #4, September 1958
a: Bill Ward (signed “McCartney”)
Sort of a cheat, this isn't exactly a parody of that movie, just an article lampooning its star Sophia Loren around the same time. Bill Ward was also a pin-up artist and gag caroonist for the other magazines Cracked's parent company published, so he often illustrated articles like this for them.
All that business about the rice fields suggests an Italian film called Bitter Rice, which Loren wasn't in. Instead, it was the making of another young Italian actress, Silvana Mangano. The Cracked writer might have been honestly confused, though clearly they weren't striving for accuracy.
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