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Hollywood Stars Who Went From Rags to Riches: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis and More Celebrities

Many of Hollywood's most iconic stars went from rags to riches during their careers in the spotlight, including Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner and more.

Her songs tell of her mother working until her fingers bled and her father shoveling coal to make “a poor man’s dollar.” The hardship continued after Loretta wed at 15. “Hunger was a major theme of my childhood,” says Sophia, who was born to an unwed mother in Rome but raised in Pozzuoli, near Naples, which saw heavy bombing during World War II. She’d bring us back a potato, a fistful of rice.” In 1943, the Allied forces marched through and a soldier tossed young Sophia a piece of chocolate, but she didn’t even know what is was.

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