The Italian actress, star of the 1950s and 1960s, also known for her role in Bread, Love and Fantasydied at the age of 95.
Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, star of the films Fanfan the Tulip and Bread, Love and Fantasy in the 1950s, died at the age of 95, reports the Italian news agency Ansa. The former sex symbol was hospitalized last September after a broken femoral neck.
Born on July 4, 1927 in the small village of Subiaco, in the heart of the Abruzzo mountains (central Italy), in a modest family which then settled in Rome, Gina Lollobrigida played with the greatest actors of Franck Sinatra to Sean Connery, from Marcello Mastroianni to Humphrey Bogart.
Among his most famous films are Fanfan the Tulip (1952) with Gerard Philipe, Bread, Love and Fantasy (1953), a huge success of Italian cinema, and Notre Dame of Paris (1956), where she plays Esmeralda.
Gina Lollobrigida has also given memorable performances in historical dramas Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (1959) and imperial venus (1962). In Hollywood, she finally gave the reply to Humphrey Bogart in stronger than the devil (1953), as well as to Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis in Trapeze (1956).
First artistic loves
She toured until 1962 in the United States and then ended up returning to Italy. She then appeared only occasionally in film and television. “La Lollo” then returned to her first artistic loves, photography and then sculpture, to which she devoted herself entirely in the early 1980s.
Gina Lollobrigida got into politics in the 1990s. She stood in the European elections on the Democratic Party list led by anti-corruption magistrate Antonio di Pietro, without success.
She was also a candidate in September for the Italian Senate. She appeared on the “sovereign and popular Italy” list, which notably advocates Italy’s exit from the EU and NATO, the end of military aid to Ukraine, the lifting of sanctions on Russia. and opposes compulsory vaccination.
