Gina Lollobrigida

Actor, photographer, sculptor and style icon, Gina Lollobrigida has died at the age of 95. La Lollo's heyday was the 1950s and 60s and here we look back at ...

La Lollo’s heyday was the 1950s and 60s and here we look back at her fabulous life. [has died at the age of 95](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/16/gina-lollobrigida-dies-la-lollo-beat-the-devil). Actor, photographer, sculptor and style icon, Gina Lollobrigida

Nicknamed 'Lollo' by fans, her beauty quickly propelled her to roles in major Italian and international movies in the 1950s and 60s. | ITV National News.

It was one of the biggest news stories of our time - and it's still not over. "Heaven will be on its toes to meet her and roll out the red carpet. With fresh revelations from our Number 10 sources, in their own words, listen to the inside story... The details surrounding her death have not been released but Lollobrigida had surgery in September to repair a thigh bone broken in a fall. "She was an artist through and through. Gina Lollobrigida the Italian actor, once dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world”, has died at the age of 95 in Rome,

Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida has died at the age of 95. As one of the most high-profile international actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema, ...

Sad to hear she's passed away." R.I.P," one fan wrote online as news of her death broke today. Another wrote: "RIP Gina Lollobrigida. The party failed to reach the 3% electoral threshold. All my life, I've had too many admirers." I've had many lovers and still have romances.

Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida has passed away at the age of 95. The star achieved international film stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed "the most ...

She returned home and said she had quickly resumed walking. It was 1947 when her big break came, and she entered the Miss Italia pageant. Gina came third place in the contest, which changed her life and brought her fame and exposure on a national level.

The actress was named 'the most beautiful woman in the world' during her silver screen heyday.

Lollobrigida began her career in beauty contests, posing for the covers of magazines and brief appearances in minor films. She returned home and said she had quickly resumed walking. A drawn portrait of the diva graced a 1954 cover of Time magazine, which, in an article about Italian movie-making, likened her to a goddess.

After a humble upbringing, Lollobrigida played opposite Hollywood stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Rock Hudson, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Frank Sinatra, ...

Campbell,” which won Lollobrigida Italy’s top movie award, a David di Donatello, as best actress in 1969. “Farewell to a diva of the big screen, protagonist of more than half a century of the Italian film history. Ms Comin did not provide details, but Lollobrigida had surgery in September to repair a thigh bone broken in a fall. A drawn portrait of the actress was published on the 1954 cover of Time magazine, which in an article about Italian movie-making likened her to a “goddess.” Ciao Lollo,” Italian culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano wrote on Twitter. [talian](/topic/italian) film star Gina Lollobrigida - once dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world” after the title of one of her movies - has died at the age of 95, her agent has confirmed.

Known as “the most beautiful woman in the world,” the European sex symbol went on to American movie stardom, later enjoying a second career as an artist and ...

Lollobrigida appeared on television in Europe and the United States, including episodes of “Falcon Crest” and an American television movie, “Deceptions” (1985), in which she played an excitable duchess entertaining in Venice. “I was hungry, I was rich, the life changed again, and now I’m not rich, but I still have my mind.” In 1969 she suggested that women pretended to be stupid in front of men. After her film career wound down in the early 1970s, Ms. The next year she appeared in “Miss Italia,” inspired by her real-life experience: She had come in third in the 1947 Miss Italy pageant. She was one of four daughters of Giovanni Lollobrigida, a furniture maker, and Giuseppina (Mercuri) Lollobrigida. She ran unsuccessfully for the European Parliament in 1999. She wrote, directed and produced “Ritratto di Fidel,” a documentary based on her exclusive interview with Fidel Castro, the Communist leader of Cuba, which was shown at the 1975 Berlin film festival. Lollobrigida was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1993. She published her first book of photographs, “Italia Mia,” in 1973. That film, and the attention she garnered in “Fanfan la Tulipe,” an Italian-French period comedy released in the United States the same year, were enough to put her on the cover of Time magazine in 1954. She won the Donatello twice more, for “Venere Imperial” (1962), in a tie with Silvana Mangano, and for “Buona Sera, Mrs.

One of the last stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Lollobrigida's roles in movies including Beautiful But Dangerous and The World's Most Beautiful Woman ...

She said in an interview that she felt responsible for Rigau's suffering after Spanish media labelled him an opportunist. One of her earliest roles was playing an adulteress in 1953's The Wayward Wife. However, in 2006 she announced she would be marring close friend Javier Rigau, a Spanish man 34 years younger than her. When she was 80, she said in an interview: "All my life I wanted a real love, an authentic love, but I have never had one. In her later years she threw herself into her sculpting, spending the summers living in an artists' colony in the Tuscan city of Pietrasanta. I am a cumbersome woman".

Film actor of the 1950s and 60s who went from early Italian roles to become an international star.

In 2011 she was a guest artist in a film directed by an Italian TV comedian, Ezio Greggio, called Box Office 3D, about the excesses of American cinema. In 1972 she was much appreciated in a rare TV appearance as the Blue Fairy in an adaptation of Pinocchio for Italian television by Comencini. Comencini directed Lollobrigida again as La Bersagliera in Bread, Love and Jealousy, a sequel that was as successful as the first film, but both she and Comencini declined to make a third film, and Loren eagerly took her place. In Buona Sera, Mrs Campbell (1968), she played on her early peasant image, as an Italian woman who convinces each of three former American GIs (Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford and Telly Savalas) that he is the father of her daughter, and won best actress at the David di Donatello awards for her performance. The movie that launched her as a sex symbol was Altri Tempi (Infidelity, 1952), an anthology film directed by Alessandro Blasetti, in which Vittorio De Sica was the lawyer who defends the honour of a woman (Lollobrigida) accused of being too sexy. Her character La Bersagliera’s sincere love for the shy but honest young cop in preference to the extrovert sergeant major played with panache by De Sica made her popular with audiences everywhere, and a pin-up around the world, although the film was panned by most critics.

Roles included 'The Hunchback Of Notre Dame' (1956), 'Come September' (1961) and 'Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell' (1986)

Campbell (1986) has died at the age of 95. After the 1960’s, Lollobrigida moved into politics and photography. Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, best known for roles in The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1956), Come September (1961) and Buona Sera, Mrs.

Gina Lollobrigida, who has died at the age of 95, shot to fame in the 1950s as a sultry Mediterranean sex symbol, then became a photographer and sculptor ...

"Jewels are meant to give pleasure and for many years I had enormous pleasure wearing mine," she said. They separated after nearly 17 years, and Lollobrigida said later she had no intention of remarrying. Tempestuous and impulsive by nature, she made headlines again in 2006, when, at age 79, she announced that she would marry a man 34 years her junior. I am a cumbersome woman," she told an interviewer when she was 80. I am more used to having falsehoods written about me." (The winner that year was Lucia Bose.) "All my life I wanted a real love, an authentic love, but I have never had one. In 1975 she made a documentary film "Portrait of Fidel Castro," and for years was surrounded by rumours that she had had an affair with the Cuban leader. In 2013, when she was 85, an auction of her jewellery by Sotheby's in Geneva fetched $4.9 million and set a record for a pair of diamond and pearl earrings, which sold for $2.37 million. In her later years she returned to her first love, sculpting, keeping a summer home in the Tuscan city of Pietrasanta, an artist's colony where she worked with sculptors such as Bottero. She burst to fame in Italy with the leading roles in two Italian comedies by Luigi Comencini - "Bread, Love and Dreams," and "Bread, Love and Jealousy". A role opposite Humphrey Bogart in John Huston's 1954 film "Beat the Devil," sealed her worldwide fame and in 1955 she made what became one of her signature films, "The World's Most Beautiful Woman".