{"id":5503,"date":"2023-01-18T04:11:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T09:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2023-01-18T04:11:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T09:11:11","slug":"gina-lollobrigida-italian-screen-star-dead-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/gina-lollobrigida-italian-screen-star-dead-at-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Gina Lollobrigida, Italian screen star, dead at 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former model shot to movie fame in 1950s and 1960s, then embarked on a series of off-screen pursuits<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.6715130.1673872390!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.JPG_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_780\/italy.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><sup>Actress Gina Lollobrigida waves on the red carpet at the Rome Film Festival on Nov. 16, 2012. The Italian largely retired from acting after 1972.\u00a0<\/sup><br><sup>(Tony Gentile\/Reuters)<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Thomson Reuters &#8211; <\/p><p>Gina Lollobrigida, who has died at the age of 95, shot to fame in the 1950s as a sultry Mediterranean sex symbol, then became a photographer and sculptor after stepping away from the movie world.<\/p><p>At the height of her fame in the 1950s and 1960s, Lollobrigida, who was known simply as &#8220;La Lollo,&#8221; was an internationally recognized epitome of Italian post-war cinema, rivalled only by Sophia Loren.<\/p><p>Tempestuous and impulsive by nature, she made headlines again in 2006, when, at age 79, she announced that she would marry a man 34 years her junior. She later called off the wedding, blaming the media for spoiling it.<\/p><p>&#8220;All my life I wanted a real love, an authentic love, but I have never had one. No one has ever truly loved me. I am a cumbersome woman,&#8221; she told an interviewer when she was 80.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.6715131.1673872342!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_780\/914917506.jpg\" alt=\"A woman is shown on a balcony, in a dress, in a black and white photograph.\"\/><figcaption>Lollobrigida is shown in a still portraying Marietta in the film La Legge in 1959.&nbsp;(Keystone Features\/Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Born to a working class family in a poor mountainous area east of Rome, she studied sculpture then got her break in the film world after finishing third in the 1947 Miss Italia beauty contest.\u00a0<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/entertainment\/italy-obit-lollobrigida-1.6715127?fbclid=IwAR2xjblrLCpLdCM81eG5KeeKOuXFNTv2L58_DGE3-O0PH_4dzjxvJpfZj-I\">Read more here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former model shot to movie fame in 1950s and 1960s, then embarked on a series of off-screen pursuits Thomson Reuters &#8211; Gina Lollobrigida, who has died at the age of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1070,1069,1068],"class_list":{"0":"post-5503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-dead-at-95","9":"tag-gina-lollobrigida","10":"tag-italian-screen-star"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Gina-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5507,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions\/5507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}