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ROME (AP) — Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved worldwide movie stardom through the Nineteen Fifties and was dubbed “probably the most stunning girl on the earth” after the title of 1 her motion pictures, died in Rome on Monday, 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 shortly 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 motion pictures in Italy simply after the tip of World Conflict II, because the nation started to advertise on the large display screen 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 September,” with Rock Hudson; “Trapeze;” “Beat the Satan,” a 1953 John Huston movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones; and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell,” which gained Lollobrigida Italy’s high film award, a David di Donatello, as greatest actress in 1969.
In Italy, she labored with a number of the nation’s high administrators following the conflict, together with Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Pietro Germi and Vittorio De Sica.
Two of her extra fashionable movies at residence had been Comencini’s “Pane Amore Fantasia” (Bread Love Fantasy) in 1953, and the sequel a 12 months later, “Pane Amore Gelosia” (Bread Love Jealousy). In every of them, her male foil was Vittorio Gassman, one among Italy’s most main males on the display screen.
Lollobrigida started her profession in magnificence contests, posing for the covers of magazines and temporary appearances in minor movies. However her horny picture shortly propelled her to roles in main Italian and worldwide motion pictures.
Whereas Lollobrigida performed some dramatic roles, her characters had been hottest in lighthearted comedies, just like the “Bread Love” motion pictures.
Lollobrigida additionally was an completed sculptor, painter and photographer, and ultimately basically dropped movie for the nice arts. Together with her digicam, 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.