Italian screen legend Gina Lollobrigida, once dubbed “the most trappy woman in the world,” has died weather-beaten 95.
Her agent, Paola Comin, didn’t provide details, but the actress had surgery in September to repair a thigh unorthodoxy wrenched in a fall.
“Lollo”, as she was lovingly nicknamed by Italians, began making movies in Italy just without the end of World War II.
Amongst her career highlights were films Come September with Rock Hudson; Trapeze; Beat the Devil, a 1953 John Huston mucosa starring Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones; and Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, which won Lollobrigida Italy’s top movie award, a David di Donatello, as weightier actress in 1969. In Italy, she worked with some of the country’s top directors pursuit the war, including Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Pietro Germi and Vittorio De Sica.
Her TV credits included Falcon Crest as Francesca Gioberti, a role originally written for Sophia Loren, who had turned it down. She moreover had a supporting role in the 1985 miniseries Deceptions, co-starring with Stefanie Powers. The pursuit year, she appeared as guest star in the The Love Boat.
A 1954 imbricate of Time magazine, which featured an vendible well-nigh Italian movie-making, likened her to a “goddess”.
Source: ABC
