Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida has died at the age of 95, former lawyer Giulia Sitani told Reuters. Lollobrigida – affectionately called her “Lalolo” by the press – was one of her last surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age. She rose to fame as her symbol of Mediterranean sex in the 1950s and appeared in more than 60 films during her 50-year career beginning in the 1950s.
Lollobrigida Life Journey
Gina Lollobrigida was born on July 4, 1927 in Subiaco, a town near Rome. Born to a furniture maker and his wife. She the second of four daughters, spent her teenage years in wartime. Studying sculpture and modeling at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
In 1947, at the age of 20, Lollobrigida came to the attention of Italians for the first time. Placing her third in the Miss Her Italy pageant.
That same year, she starred opposite Humphrey Bogart in her first mainstream English-language film, Beat the Devil (1953), which won her millions of fans around the world. Bogart famously said that Lollobrigida “made Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple.”
Lollobrigida followed suit with Errol in Her Crossed Swords (1954), starring opposite Flynn in Her Trapeze (1956), in which Bert She starred in Lancaster and Tony Curtis in Her, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956). ) followed. , she played Esmeralda in Anthony Quinn’s Quasimodo.
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Her performance in “Beautiful But Dangerous” (1955) earned her the nickname “the most beautiful woman in the world”.
That same year, alongside Humphrey Bogart, she starred in her first mainstream English-language film, Beat the Devil (1953), winning millions of fans worldwide. Bogart famously said that Lollobrigida “made Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple.”
Lollobrigida followed with Errol in Her Crossed Swords (1954) and Flynn in Her Trapeze (1956), and appeared in Lancaster’s Bert See and Tony Curtis in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956). ) followed. She played Esmeralda in Anthony Quinn’s Quasimodo.
Her portrayal of her main character in “Beautiful But Dangerous” (1955) earned her the nickname “the most beautiful woman alive”.
