Cary Grant proposed to her. Omar Sharif told her he dreamt of her naked. Clark Gable admitted to “the wrong thoughts” after working with her. Born in Rome in 1934, the actress Sophia Loren, now 90, is the subject of “Sophia Loren: Hollywood Style, Neapolitan Spirit,” a retrospective at the British Film Institute, in London. Catch the comedies Too Bad She’s Bad and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow—in which she reduced Marcello Mastroianni to wolf howls with a striptease—and the Hollywood blockbusters El Cid and Arabesque. “She can do extreme drama and tragedy. She also understands the camera and has an amazing capacity to be understated and do things with tiny gestures,” says Adrian Wootton, the season’s programmer. “She’s got the whole thing. Very few actors have that complete command of cinematic craft.” —Tom Shone