Europe1 .fr with AFP 1:41 p.m., January 16, 2023, modified at 1:48 p.m., January 16, 2023
Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, star of the 1950s, has died at the age of 95, the Italian Minister of Culture announced on Monday.
Gina Lollobrigida had fractured her femur in a fall at her Roman home in September and required surgery.
Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, a voluptuous brunette who shared the limelight with the greatest actors in the 1950s, has died at the age of 95, the Italian Minister of Culture announced on Monday.
Gina Lollobrigida had fractured her femur in a fall at her Roman home in September and required surgery.
The former sex symbol was revealed in 1952 in "Fanfan la tulipe" by French director Christian-Jaque.
"Farewell to a diva of the big screen, protagonist of more than half a century of Italian cinema history. Her charm is eternal. Ciao Lollo", tweeted the Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano.
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A career alongside the greatest
Born on July 4, 1927 in the small village of Subiaco, in the heart of Abruzzo (central Italy), in a modest family which then settled in Rome, Gina Lollobrigida played with the greatest of her time in the 1950s and 1960s, from Frank Sinatra to Sean Connery, from Marcello Mastroianni to Humphrey Bogart.
She toured until 1962 in the United States and then ended up returning to Italy.
She then appeared only occasionally in film and television.
"La Lollo" then returned to her first artistic loves, photography and then sculpture, to which she devoted herself entirely from the beginning of the 1980s.