A huge star, he performed with the most famous figures, including Frank Sinatra, Sean Connery and Humphrey Bogart.
italian actress Gina Lollobrigidaone of the great stars in the history of cinema, passed away this Monday, January 16, at the age of 95.
“The Bersagliera has left us. It is with deep pain that her son, Milko, and her grandson Dimitri make the sad announcement. At this moment of great pain, the family asks for the utmost respect from the media,” says the statement from the family, published by the Italian media.
Tireless as she was, the actress and artist had even stood for the general elections on September 25 of last year, for the “sovereign and popular Italy” list with the Communist Party, to be a senator.
Lollobrigida is considered one of the great actresses of Italian cinema, since its beginnings in 1946 in net eagleby Riccardo Freda, to working with some of the most renowned directors, such as Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica, Mario Soldati or Pietro Germi.
His fame rose enormously in the 1950s and 1960s, also for his role in Bread, love and…by Luigi Comencini.
In those years, “Lollo” was divided between the Cinecittà studios in Rome and Hollywood, with unforgettable works such as Beat the Devil (The Devil’s Trick, 1953) with Humphrey Bogart, or Trapeze (1956), con Tony Curtis y Burt Lancaster.
Era The most beautiful woman in the worldas that 1955 film by Robert Z. Leonard was titled, but also the Queen of Sheba in the film Salomon and Shebaby King Vidor, with Yul Brynner, who had to replace Tyrone Power, who died during filming.
She spent her last years in her imposing villa in Rome’s Appia Antica, accompanied by an assistant, among them the young Andrea Piazzolla, 35, accused of seizing his immense patrimony.
Interned in September
Lollobrigida, the undisputed muse of Italian cinematography, had recently been admitted to a clinic in Rome after suffering a fractured femur at her home. It was last September, and the legendary actress had been successfully operated on.
Born on July 4, 1927 in the small town of Subiaco, in the heart of the Abruzzo mountains (central Italy), into a modest family, Lollobrigida performed with the most famous figures, including Frank SinatraSean Connery y Humphrey Bogart.
a movie life
Lollobrigida had a movie life, surrounded by jewels and glamour, and with sentimental affairs that tarnished the last days of her life.
Icon of Mediterranean beauty, she was deeply marked throughout her life by love, heartbreak and lawsuits.
Luigina Lollobrigida’s family lost their estate in World War II, and in 1947, at the age of 20, she moved to Rome, where she began to study Fine Arts. As she explains in her biography, she was the “privileged” in a family of “refugees” who lived in a harsh room and ate “what little she managed to collect.”
The springboard into show business occurred upon her arrival in the city, when she participated in the Miss Roma pageant, in which she came second, and was later invited to the Miss Italy final, in which Lucía Bosé finally triumphed.
Little by little, the young woman managed to enter the Cinecittà studios in Rome, playing small roles, and three years later she received an offer from the millionaire producer Howard Hughes for which she took a plane to fly to Hollywood.
But realizing that she could only work in productions of her patron, she decided to return to Rome to start a career that would establish her as one of the most acclaimed actresses in Europe.
Perhaps one of his most emblematic works is the aforementioned production with a premonitory title The most beautiful woman in the world (1956), together with Vittorio Gassman, in which he even sang fragments of the Tosca by Giacomo Puccini.
Established as one of the great icons of “Italianness”, Lollobrigida gradually separated herself from the world of cinema, in which she won numerous awards, with the exception of the Oscar.
