{"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":"

Former model shot to movie fame in 1950s and 1960s, then embarked on a series of off-screen pursuits<\/p>

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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>
(Tony Gentile\/Reuters)<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>

Thomson Reuters – <\/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>

At the height of her fame in the 1950s and 1960s, Lollobrigida, who was known simply as “La Lollo,” was an internationally recognized epitome of Italian post-war cinema, rivalled only by Sophia Loren.<\/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>

“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,” she told an interviewer when she was 80.<\/p>

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Lollobrigida is shown in a still portraying Marietta in the film La Legge in 1959. (Keystone Features\/Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>

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>

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