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Gina Lollobrigida: Miss Rome
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Gina Lollobrigida was a wildly popular Italian actress and sex symbol of the 1950s and '60s. She was born into a working-class family, and raised in an unpretentious suburb of Rome. She was discovered, legend has it, by a stranger on the street, who offered her work as an extra in films.
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Synopsis: Real-life beauty contest winner Gina Lollobrigida is appropriately cast in Miss Italia. The first half of the film is a dramatization of the events leading up to Italy's number-one beauty pageant. The final portion consists of footage from the actual event. Inevitably, the real thing is moreRead More
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Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida waves as she arrives to Villa Borghese in central Rome 07 July 2007 to partecipate to Italian haute couture designer Valentino gala dinner to mark 45 years in business. The three-day event began yasterday with a showing of some of his historic creations at the new Richard Meir-designed museum and continued with a fashion show and gala dinners and parties with numerous famous italian and foreign guests
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Gina was born in Subiaco, Italy on July 4th and she began her career after winning a beauty contest in her country Italy. She then became very popular worldwide and starred in films produced worldwide. Here is an early picture of Gina, number 27, at the Miss Rome contest. Silvana Mangano, another Italian babe, is on the far right (#104). [photo credit 1]
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Lollobrigida, 79, had been scheduled to marry Javier Rigau y Rafols, 45, of Barcelona, Spain, on Jan. 27 in Rome. The couple, who met at a party in Monte Carlo, Monaco, had been dating for 22 years.
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