Italian film star Gina Lollobrigida has died in Rome at age 95. Her agent, Paola Comin, said the actress died on Monday. Lollobrigida achieved international stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed 'the most beautiful woman in the world' after…
ROME — Italian film legend Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed"the most beautiful woman in the world" after the title of one her movies, died in Rome on Monday, her agent said. She was 95.
"Lollo," as she was lovingly nicknamed by Italians, began making movies in Italy just after the end of World War II, as the country began to promote on the big screen a stereotypical concept of Mediterranean beauty as buxom and brunette. Two of her more popular films at home were Comencini's"Pane Amore e Fantasia" in 1953, and the sequel a year later,"Pane Amore e Gelosia" . Her male foil was Vittorio Gassman, one of Italy's leading men on the screen.
Eccentric mogul Howard Hughes eventually brought Lollobrigida to the United States, where she performed with some of Hollywood's leading men of the 1950s and 60s, including Frank Sinatra, Sean Connery, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner. With lush eyelashes and thick, brown curls framing her face, Lollobrigida started a hairstyle rage in the 1950s known as the"poodle cut." Gossip columnists commented on alleged rivalries between her and Sophia Loren, another Italian film star celebrated for her physical beauty,
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