Gina Lollobrigida

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.

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.”

La actriz compartió cartel con leyendas de Hollywood como Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra y Rock Hudson.

Su belleza física le abrió las puertas y también le causó dolores de cabezas. Pese a que estudió artes (escultura), la actuación no era lo que le interesaba. Su padre era un fabricante de muebles.

La estrella de Pan, amor y fantasía y Fanfan la tulipe tenía 95 años; junto a Sophia Loren y Claudia Cardinale integró la tríada de las máximas bellezas de ...

Roma — La actriz italiana Gina Lollobrigida, que alcanzó el estrellato cinematográfico internacional durante la década de 1950 y fue apodada “la mujer más.

En cada uno de ellos, su complemento masculino era Vittorio Gassman, uno de los hombres más destacados de Italia en la pantalla. Con su cámara, recorrió el mundo desde lo que entonces era la Unión Soviética hasta Australia. Pero su imagen sexy la impulsó rápidamente a papeles en las principales películas italianas e internacionales. Campbell, que ganó el premio principal de cine de Lollobrigida Italia, un David di Donatello, como mejor actriz en 1969. Más de medio siglo después, Lollobrigida seguía llamando la atención con su cabellera rojiza rizada y su escultural figura. Un retrato dibujado de la diva apareció en la portada de 1954 de la revista Time, que en un artículo sobre el cine italiano la comparó con una “diosa”.

La actriz Gina Lollobrigida, leyenda de la pantalla chica italiana, murió a los 95 años. Junto con Sophia Loren, llegó a simbolizar a las actrices italianas ...

Cuando los papeles en el cine comenzaron a disminuir en la década de 1970, Lollobrigida hizo una nueva carrera como fotoperiodista. A principios de la década de 1950, era una gran estrella en Europa. Junto con Sophia Loren, llegó a simbolizar a las actrices italianas en las décadas de 1950 y 1960.

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.

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.

La actriz italiana Gina Lollobrigida, una de las grandes estrellas de la historia del cine, falleció hoy con 95 años de edad en su casa de Roma, ...

Era “La donna più bella del mondo”, como recitaba aquella película de 1955 de Robert Z. Con profundo dolor dan el triste anuncio su hijo, Milko, y su nieto Dimitri. “La Bersagliera nos ha dejado.

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.

ARCHIVO - La actriz italiana Gina Lollobrigida habla con los medios en el Museo de Bellas Artes de Moscú, el 23 de junio de 2003. Alexander Zemlianichenko - ...

Lollobrigida comenzó su carrera en concursos de belleza y posó para la portada de revistas y tuvo algunas apariciones en películas menos conocidas. Campbell” (“Buona sera, señora Campbell”), que le valió a Lollobrigida el máximo galardón de cine de Italia, un David di Donatello, como mejor actriz en 1969. Lollobrigida se sometió a una cirugía en septiembre por un fémur que se le fracturó en una caída.

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' ...

La actriz italiana Gina Lollobrigida, que alcanzó el estrellato cinematográfico internacional durante la década de 1950 y fue apodada “la mujer más bella ...

En su sitio de internet, Lollobrigida recordó cómo su familia perdió su casa durante los bombardeos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y se fueron a vivir a Roma. Lollobrigida comenzó su carrera en concursos de belleza y posó para la portada de revistas, además de tener algunas apariciones en películas menos conocidas. Walters fue la primera mujer que rompió el club masculino de los presentadores de televisión. Campbell” (“Buona sera, señora Campbell”), que le valió a Lollobrigida el máximo galardón de cine de Italia, un David di Donatello, como mejor actriz en 1969. Más de medio siglo después, Lollobrigida seguía llamando la atención por su cabellera castaña oscura y quebrada, así como su escultural figura. Lollobrigida se sometió a una cirugía en septiembre por un fémur que se le fracturó en una caída.

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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Los nombres del empresario y de la actriz estuvieron unidos durante años, entre titulares en los que se anunciaba su compromiso, fin del compromiso, una boda ...

Su nombre vuelve a la prensa del corazón con el fallecimiento de la actriz italiana, menos de una semana después de que Hollywood llorase la pérdida de otra persona muy querida, [Lisa Marie Presley](https://www.rtve.es/television/20230113/lisa-marie-presley-muere-reacciones-nicolas-cage-tom-hanks/2415567.shtml). Javier Rigau afirmaba, por su parte, de que aquella boda por poderes se había celebrado el 29 de noviembre de 2010 "con el pleno conocimiento de ambos contrayentes, así como de sus representantes legales", según indicaba un comunicado suyo. "Ante las constantes e inveraces intromisiones ilegítimas en el honor e intimidad que he venido sufriendo de forma continua desde que anunciara su compromiso matrimonial con doña Gina Lollobrígida por un sector de la prensa española y que se ha visto obligado a interponer las acciones judiciales civiles y penales pertinentes para que sean respetados sus derechos fundamentales, ponemos en su conocimiento que el señor Rigau ha cancelado su compromiso matrimonial", leía el comunicado de Javier Rigau, según recogía ¡Hola! La justicia italiana absolvió al empresario en 2017 de los delitos de falsedad documental y estafa. Los nombres del empresario y de la actriz estuvieron unidos durante años, entre titulares en los que se anunciaba su compromiso, fin del compromiso, una boda celebrada por poderes y un juicio, un escándalo muy mediático que vuelve hoy a la actualidad tras el fallecimiento de la diva italiana. Gina Lollobrigida acudía a la prensa italiana para denunciar que temía encontrarse casada con Javier Rigau desde 2010 sin su conocimiento.