Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, who came to represent her country's vibrant rebirth after World War Two, dies aged 95
Lollobrigida also served as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund , and its Food and Agriculture Organisation .
After a humble upbringing, Lollobrigida played opposite Hollywood stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Rock Hudson, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Frank Sinatra, becoming one of the most recognisable cinema icons of the 1950s and 60s. She is best known for Luigi Comencini's 1953 classic "Bread, Love and Dreams", and Jean Delannoy's 1956 "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".Last September, she failed in a bid to win a seat in the Italian parliament for a leftist political party at national elections.Bogart, who she starred opposite in her breakthrough movie"Beat the Devil" in 1953, said Lollobrigida made"Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple.
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