FILE - German actor Horst Buchholz kisses the hand of Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, during the International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, July 5, 1958. Lollobrigida has died in Rome at age 95. Italian news agency Lapresse reported Lollobrigidas death on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023 quoting Tuscany Gov. Eugenio Giani.
“Lollo,” as she was lovingly nicknamed by Italians, began making movies in Italy just after the end of World War II, as the country began to promote on the big screen a stereotypical concept of Mediterranean beauty as buxom and brunette. Two of her more popular films at home were Comencini’s “Pane Amore e Fantasia” in 1953, and the sequel a year later, “Pane Amore e Gelosia” . Her male foil was Vittorio Gassman, one of Italy’s leading men on the screen.
Eccentric mogul Howard Hughes eventually brought Lollobrigida to the United States, where she performed with some of Hollywood’s leading men of the 1950s and 60s, including Frank Sinatra, Sean Connery, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner. With lush eyelashes and thick, brown curls framing her face, Lollobrigida started a hairstyle rage in the 1950s known as the “poodle cut.” Gossip columnists commented on alleged rivalries between her and Sophia Loren, another Italian film star celebrated for her physical beauty,
They don’t make ‘em like that no mo’.
Prayers for Gina Lollobrigida, rest I peace.
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