Gina Lollobrigida

She was dubbed “the original Italian over-stuffed star,” a precursor to Sophia Loren, who would soon claim the public imagination as the quintessential ...

She called the matter a “horrific and vulgar fraud” perpetrated by a fortune hunter. When she held out for half the profits of the second sequel, “Scandal in Sorrento” (1955), Loren was hired instead and She also worked as a model and won the title of Miss Rome before placing third in the Miss Italy competition. Kaufman and a torrid affair with South African heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard, whom she later called a “cheap publicity seeker” for revealing that she had once driven him to his hotel in a Jaguar while In the drama “Go Naked in the World” (1961), she was a call girl wooed by a construction tycoon’s son (Anthony Franciosa), and she played a nurse recruited for a murder scheme in “Woman of Straw” (1964) co-starring Sean Connery. She had a breakthrough the next year, playing a sparky, barefoot peasant in the vivacious comedy As an octogenarian, she sued a boyfriend 25 years her junior who she alleged had orchestrated an unauthorized marriage to siphon off her considerable fortune, estimated in the tens of millions of dollars. She became a sculptor, and she published books of her photography. In “Solomon and Sheba” (1959), she performed, as Sheba, a memorable The former is a shaggy-dog caper about con artists in which Bogart and Ms. She said that she refused his sexual advances and that he, in return, made her prohibitively expensive for other filmmakers in the United States. In a heyday that spanned a quarter-century and more than 50 films, Ms.

ROME -- Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international film 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. In 1974, Fidel Castro hosted her as a guest in Cuba for 12 days as she worked on a photo reportage. 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.

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.

Gina Lollobrigida, the Italian-born film star who was among Hollywood's most sought-after female actresses in the 1950s and '60s and was frequently ...

Gina Lollobrigida, the high-spirited actor who had dual careers in Hollywood and Europe but may be more fondly remembered in her native Italy for ...

She dabbled in sculpture and pursued a second career as a photographer, producing five books of photos. It marked Lollobrigida’s first English-speaking film and — as would become her fate — called for her to play the role of a seductress. She was studying sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome when a talent agent spotted her and offered her a modeling and acting contract. The film, shot in Paris, was a financial success. She never made a film with Hughes and, tired of his advances and erratic behavior, returned to Italy, where her career bloomed. Born in Subiaco, Italy, in 1927 (though she sometimes claimed it was 1928), Lollobrigida was the second of four daughters of Giovanni and Giuseppina 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 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.

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.

Gina Lollobrigida, the Italian bombshell and movie star, has died at 95 according to Italian media.

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.

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' ...

Lollobrigida also was an accomplished sculptor, painter and photographer, and eventually essentially dropped film for the other arts.

On her website, Lollobrigida recalled how her family lost its house during the bombings of World War II and went to live in Rome. 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. Producer Mario Costa plucked her from the streets of Rome to appear on the big screen. 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.

Dubbed “The Most Beautiful Woman in The World”, Gina Lollobrigida was one of the world's most famous actresses in her heyday.

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