Gina Lollobrigida

She began her career in her native Italy and, although she achieved fame in America worked more often in Europe. She later had a second career as an artist ...

Lollobrigida appeared on television in Europe and the United States, including the “Falcon Crest” episodes and an American television movie, “Deceptions” (1985), in which she played an excitable duchess entertaining in Venice. 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. Campbell” in 1969 and for a recurring role on the prime-time television soap “Falcon Crest” in 1985. She was one of four daughters of Giovanni Lollobrigida, a furniture maker, and Giuseppina (Mercuri) Lollobrigida. 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 always considered more a sex symbol than a serious actress — at least by the American press — but she was also nominated for a BAFTA award as best foreign actress in “Pane, Amore e Fantasia” (1953). She ran unsuccessfully for the European Parliament in 1999. 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 A 1955 film, “La Donna Più Bella del Mondo” (“The Most Beautiful Woman in the World” — a term some in Hollywood came to use about Ms. Lollobrigida had already appeared in more than two dozen European films when she made her first English-language movie: John Huston’s 1953 camp drama, “Beat the Devil,” in which she played Humphrey Bogart’s wife and partner in crime.

Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida has died at the age of 95, according to her former lawyer, who confirmed the news to Reuters.

Some of her other notable roles include "Woman Of Rome" (1954), "Buona Sera, Mrs. Lollobrigida also starred opposite Frank Sinatra in "Never So Few" (1959) and collaborated with Rock Hudson twice. Lollobrigida's acting career slowed down in the 1970s, and during this decade she began focusing on photography. She shot to fame in the 1950s as a Mediterranean sex symbol and starred in more than 60 films in her career, which began in the 1950s and spanned five decades. Lollobrigida began her acting career around the same time, appearing in uncredited background roles, before being promoted to more central roles. Lollobrigida was born on July 4, 1927, in Subiaco, a town close to Rome.

Gina Lollobrigida has died. The Italian actress - who was best known for her roles in the likes of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' and 'Solomon and Sheba' ...

Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international film stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world” after the ...

According to Italian news agency Lapresse, Lollobrigida died in a clinic in Rome. No cause of death has been cited. In September she had had surgery to repair a ...

She won the Berlinale Camera at the Berlin Film Festival in 1986, a special prize for outstanding contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in 1995 and the career award at the Rome Festival in 2008. Modelling work in her youth let to participation in a series of beauty contests, and she placed third in the Miss Italia pageant in 1947. Her first American movie, shot in Italy, was John Huston’s 1953 film noir spoof “Beat the Devil,” in which she starred with Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones. In 1961 she won the Golden Globes’ Henrietta Award for world film favorite — female. In September she had had surgery to repair a thigh bone broken in a fall, but she recovered and competed for a Senate seat in Italy’s elections held last year in September, though she did not win. [Gina Lollobrigida](https://variety.com/t/gina-lollobrigida/), the 1950s Italian bombshell who starred in films including “Fanfan la Tulipe,” “Beat the Devil,” “Trapeze” and “Buona Sera, Mrs.

The star of such masterpieces as Bread and Love and Dreams, dies at the age of 95.

Born in Subiaco, Italy on July 4, 1927 to a family of furniture manufacturers, Lollobrigida always felt a deep connection to the world of creativity. She was an idol and diva of a generation, alongside Sophia Loren, with whom she had a bitter rivalry that Gina Lollobrigida, an icon of Italian cinema who devoted her life to art, died Monday at the age of 95.

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.

Sophia Loren was one of the first people to pay tribute to “La Lollo,” as the Italians called her. Loren said in a statement she “is deeply shaken and saddened” ...

He helped me to understand that cinema is an art; an art that can give you immediate gratification because the audience response is so wonderful. Loren said in a statement she “is deeply shaken and saddened” by the news of Lollobrigida’s death. [In a 2018 interview with Variety](https://variety.com/2018/film/awards/gina-lollobrigida-reflects-on-hollywood-career-1202693392/) Lollobrigida recalled: “De Sica taught me to understand cinema.

ROME — Italian film legend Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world" ...

On her website, Lollobrigida recalled how her family lost its house during the bombings of World War II and went to live in Rome. Producer Mario Costa plucked her from the streets of Rome to appear on the big screen. After more than 20 years of dating, in 2006, the then-79-year-old Lollobrigida announced that she would marry Rigau, but the wedding never happened. More than a half-century later, Lollobrigida still turned heads with her brown, curly hair and statuesque figure, and preferred to be called an actress instead of the gender-neutral term actor. Her male foil was Vittorio Gassman, one of Italy's leading men on the screen. Lollobrigida had surgery in September to repair a thigh bone broken in a fall.

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni described her as a 'great talent, passionate, intense, enthralling'

Her charm will remain eternal," Sangiuliano wrote after Italy's Ansa news agency reported her death. Italy's Supreme Court ruled that she needed a legal guardian to stop people from preying on her wealth, because of a "weakening" in her perception of reality. She was "one of the most important performers of her generation, who contributed to the diffusion of the Italian image in the world," Meloni said.

Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, one of the last icons of the Golden Age of Hollywood, has died aged 95, culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano announced ...

Of all her films it was her favourite. "It's very full of fire. - Lollobrigida had reportedly undergone an operation in a Rome clinic in September after breaking her femur. Her charm will remain eternal," Sangiuliano wrote after Italy's ANSA news agency reported her death. "It fits me like a glove, the character," she told The New York Times in an interview years later. She was "one of the most important performers of her generation, who contributed to the diffusion of the Italian image in the world", Meloni said in a statement.

Actress Gina Lollobrigida, veteran Italian actor and once adjudged as the 'Most Beautiful Woman in the World, dies at 95.

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