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 screen legend Gina Lollobrigida has died at the age of 95, news agency ANSA reported, citing members of her family.

When film roles began to dwindle in the 1970s, Lollobrigida made a new career for herself as a photojournalist. By the early 1950s, she was a huge star in Europe. She was Esmerelda to Anthony Quinn’s Quasimodo in the 1956 adaptation of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” and the Queen of Sheba to Yul Brynner’s King Solomon in King Vidor’s 1959 Technicolor epic “Solomon and Sheba.”

The Italian actress and photographer Gina Lollobrigida, one of the last icons of the Golden Age of Hollywood, has died aged 95, Italy's culture minister ...

She was later sent to the Academy of Fine Arts in the capital to complete her education and studied sculpture. "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. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. "I am more used to having falsehoods written about me." Her charm will remain eternal," Sangiuliano wrote after Italy's ANSA news agency reported Lollobrigida's death.

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

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.

Performance in 1953′s Beat the Devil opposite Humphrey Bogart brought her international fame and millions of admirers.

Rome, the city she loved, will remember her how she deserves.” “She was an Italian icon in the world,” he added. “Time and time he tried to get me!” Lollobrigida recalled in an interview with Vanity Fair. In her teenage years she did some modelling and entered beauty contests, and in 1947 placed third in the Miss Italia pageant. Born in 1927 in Subiaco, in the mountains east of Rome, she was the daughter of a furniture-maker. Corriere della Sera reported the news, saying she had been “hospitalised for some time”.

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.