She played one of her best roles privately – as a diva …
movie icon Gina Lollobrigida († 95, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”) is dead. “The most beautiful woman on the screen” – clear to the end in her wild will. A screen goddess, voted Italy’s most beautiful toddler at the age of three, film career from the 1940s. She was loud, she was more modern than the acting business often allowed her to be.
Screen giant Mario Adorf (92) shot several times with Lollobrigida in the 60s and 70s. The literary adaptation “Herzbube” (1972) was actually supposed to be her farewell to the big film business.
As glamorous as Gina Lollobrigida was, she wasn’t too bad about the stove
Adorf received the news of the death in Paris.
He told BILD: “I was lucky enough to shoot with her a few times, remember her as a colleague without star airs, who wasn’t too good at cooking spaghetti for her colleagues after work.”
Acting legend Mario Adorf admired Lollobrigida, who was considered the “most beautiful woman in the world”.
The 92-year-old continued: “I admired her because she wasn’t under the protection of a major producer like other Italian female superstars, but went her own often difficult path, becoming a respected photographer after her film career, even to the high Age retained remarkable beauty.”
Actor Mario Adorf (r.) was shooting alongside Lollobrigida with film greats such as Claudia Cardinale, Sean Connery and Michael Caine. Here he stars alongside Hardy Krüger in the film “The Red Tent” (1968)
Lollobrigida once said to BILD: “I don’t take what I need, I take what I want.” Young partners – to the end. Her last companion, Andrea P., is just 35 …
“Out of boredom”, as she once said, she shot again in the 80s, was nominated for a Golden Globe for the series “Falcon Crest” (1985), stirred up the Berlinale (1986) as jury president. “As an incentive so that the head never falls asleep”, she was a sculptor, fashion photographer, and even wanted to move into the Italian parliament for the left in 2022. Unsuccessful.
Lollobrigida starring Burt Lancaster in 1956’s Trapezoid
Now Adorf has to say goodbye too. “Today all I can do is call out to her affectionately: ‘Ciao Gina, ciao unforgettable Lollo!'”
“Lollo” never recovered after breaking his femur in September and died in Rome, according to the Italian news agency Ansa.
Your last great scenes are now over. Your film drama could go on. An inheritance dispute (allegedly around 50 million) between ex-husband Milko (65) and her last companion Andrea is threatening. Gina should have been incapacitated by her ex and her son beforehand.
The strong, beautiful woman of European film didn’t put up with that either. Until the end …
