Gina Lollobrigida Dies: Luigia “Gina” Lollobrigida, OMRI, was an actress, photojournalist, and politician from Italy. She was born on July 4, 1927, and died on January 16, 2023. During the 1950s and early 1960s, she was one of the most famous European actresses and a sex symbol worldwide.
At the time of her death, Lollobrigida was one of the last well-known actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood movies who was still alive. As things slowed down in the movie business, Lollobrigida started a second job as a photojournalist.
In the 1970s, she got a scoop when she got an exclusive interview with Fidel Castro. Lollobrigida kept helping Italian and Italian-American causes, especially the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF).
At the Foundation’s Anniversary Gala in 2008, she was given the NIAF Lifetime Achievement Award for her work. In 2013, she sold her jewelry collection and provided almost $5 million to help research stem-cell therapy. At the 18th Golden Globe Awards, she won the Henrietta Award.
Legend of Italian Cinema Gina Lollobrigida Dies at 95!
Gina Lollobrigida, an Italian movie legend, has died at the age of 95, her family told the news agency ANSA. Her grandnephew, Francesco Lollobrigida, the Italian Minister of Agriculture, tweeted about her death. He called her “one of the brightest stars of Italian cinema and culture.”
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RAI’s state media also said that she had died. In the 1950s and 1960s, Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren came to represent the earthy sexuality of Italian actresses. After training as a painter and sculptor, Lollobrigida became a victorious beauty queen and model.
In 1946, she made her first movie appearance in the swashbuckling adventure “The Black Eagle,” in which she played a small part. By the early 1950s, she was one of Europe’s biggest stars. In 1953, she made her first movie in English. It was John Huston’s “Beat the Devil,” which starred Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, and herself.
She played Esmerelda in Anthony Quinn’s Quasimodo in the 1956 version of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” and she played the Queen of Sheba to Yul Brynner’s King Solomon in King Vidor’s 1959 Technicolor epic “Solomon and Sheba.”
Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida dies at 95 – ANSA https://t.co/PncTg1WWl5 pic.twitter.com/PHWZ1B2TFs
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 16, 2023
In the 1970s, Lollobrigida’s number of movie roles started declining, so she became a photojournalist. She was in a few movies and TV shows. In 1984, her most famous role was a recurring one on the US prime-time soap opera “Falcon Crest.”
She ran for a seat in the Italian Senate last year but lost. Before the country’s elections, she told the Corriere Della Sera, “I was just tired of hearing politicians argue without ever getting to the point.”
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