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Gina Lollobrigida: Miss Italy
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Gina Lollobrigida, in the eyes of the world, was the symbol of the Italian woman. A tenacious woman of many talents, she remains one of the last myths of cinema in the world. She found fame in her portrayal of beautiful stormy women in may successful films, such as:-"Fanfan the Tulipe", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "Achtung! Bandits!", "The Country Wife" and "Woman of Rome". With the film "Bread, Love and Dreams", she earned accolades both from the critics and from the public. She received numerous awards both in Italy and abroad.
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Known as "La Lollo," Gina Lollobrigida was the first sex symbol to emerge from post-WWII Europe at a time when Italians were giving up on neorealism in favor of Hollywood glamour. Coming in third place at the 1947 Miss Italia contest made her the ideal star for escapist cinema. Arriving perfectly...Read More
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Born into a working-class background, Gina Lollobrigida attended an artistic high school and entered the Miss Italia beauty contest in 1947, finishing third (after Lucia Bosé and Gianna Maria Canale). After several small parts, she came to public notice in films such as "Flesh Will Surrender (Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo)" (1947) by Alberto Lattuada and "Campane a martello" (1949) by Luigi Zampa. In the early 1950s, she built up her reputation with a series of films in Italy and abroad, from "Fan-Fan the Tulip (Fanfan la Tulipe)" (1951) by Christian-Jacque and "Beauties of the Night (Le belle della notte)" (1952) by René Clair to "Infidelity (Altri tempi)" (1952) by Alessandro Blasetti and "The Wayward Wife (La provinciale)" (1953) by Mario Soldati, which saw her in one of her finest performances as the unhappy adulteress Gemma.
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Synopsis: In this occasionally amusing frolic, Gina Lollobrigida plays a sexy widow who returns to Italy from New York following the death of her husband. Her wealth and good looks entice all the men in her small village except for the one she really wants, the town blacksmith (Dale Robertson). Giuseppe RotunnoRead More
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Gina wound down her film career in the early 1970s, and pursued new interests. Always a skilled photographer, she had a collection of her photos of Italy printed in "Italia Mia", and later other books of her photographs were published. More recently, a collection of her sculptures has been exhibited in Moscow, Venice and Paris. Gina has ... run for political office, without success, and directed two television documentaries about political figures, Fidel Castro and Indira Gandhi. Gina has worked for UNESCO, UNICEF and Medicines Sans Frontiers, and is an ambassador for The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations. Gina has been awarded various citations and honours in recognition of her work for charitable causes.
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Gina Lollobrigida, who played "the most beautiful woman in the world" in the film of the same name, is getting remarried at 79 to a man who is more than three decades her junior. Lollobrigida, called "La Lollo" in Italy, said she and her husband-to-be, Javier Rigau y Rafols, have known each other for 22 years. She met the Spanish property entrepreneur, now 45, at a party in Monte Carlo.
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