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Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved worldwide movie stardom throughout the 1950s and was dubbed “essentially the most stunning lady on the planet” after the title of one in all her films, has died in Rome, her agent stated. She was 95.
The agent, Paola Comin, didn’t present particulars. However Lollobrigida had surgical procedure in September to restore a thigh bone damaged in a fall.
She returned residence and stated she had rapidly resumed strolling.
A drawn portrait of the diva graced a 1954 cowl of Time journal, which in an article about Italian movie-making likened her to a “goddess.”
Greater than a half-century later, Lollobrigida nonetheless turned heads with a head stuffed with auburn curly hair and her statuesque determine.
“Lollo,” as she was lovingly nicknamed by Italians, started making films in Italy simply after the tip of World Struggle II, because the nation started to advertise on the large display a stereotypical idea of Mediterranean magnificence as buxom and brunette.
Apart from The World’s Most Lovely Girl in 1955, profession highlights included Golden Globe winner Come Septemberwith Rock Hudson; Trapeze; Beat the Satan, a 1953 John Huston movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones; and Buona Sera, Mrs Campbellwhich received Lollobrigida Italy’s high film award, a David di Donatello, as finest actress in 1969.
In Italy, she labored with a number of the nation’s high administrators following the battle, together with Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Pietro Germi and Vittorio De Sica.
Two of her extra common movies at residence had been Comencini’s Pane Amore Fantasia (Bread Love Fantasy) in 1953, and the sequel a yr later, Pane Amore Gelosia (Bread Love Jealousy).
In every of them, her male foil was Vittorio Gassman, one in all Italy’s hottest main males on display.
Lollobrigida started her profession in magnificence contests, posing for the covers of magazines and temporary appearances in minor movies.
However her horny picture rapidly propelled her to roles in main Italian and worldwide films.
Though Lollobrigida performed some dramatic roles, her characters had been hottest in light-hearted comedies, just like the ‘Bread Love’ films.
Lollobrigida additionally was an completed sculptor, painter and photographer, and finally dropped movie for the high-quality arts.
Together with her digital camera, she roamed the world from what was then the Soviet Union to Australia.
In 1974, Fidel Castro hosted her as a visitor in Cuba for 12 days as she labored on a photograph reportage.
She was born on July 4, 1927 in Subiaco, a picturesque hill city close to Rome, the place her father was a furnishings maker.
-AP
