Gina Lollobrigida, the Italian film star whose exotic appeal have made her the world's most famous sex icon of postwar cinema, has passed away, Italian news agency ANSA said on Monday. She was 95.
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The dark-haired, self-assured beauty from whom Humphrey Bogart once quipped, "She makes Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple," died in a medical clinic in Rome the ex-lawyer Giulia Citani said to Reuters.
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In her first role in English that was well-known, Lollobrigida appeared as Bogart's wife in John Huston's Beat the Devil (1953) which was shot in Italy. She was the gorgeous Queen as Sheba in Solomon and Sheba (1959).
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The actress moved her home in the year 1959, to Hollywood in the year 1959, where she was to appear alongside stars like Rock Hudson, Frank Sinatra and Sean Connery
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in 1968 Lollobrigida produced one of the most adored movies, Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, a sex comedy that featured her character protecting three men each one of whom she was been told to be the father of her daughter, the film brought her an Oscar Globe nomination.
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In the late 1960s Lollobrigida had become a renowned photographer, who photographed a variety of famous people like Paul Newman, Salvador Dali, Audrey Hepburn, Ella Fitzgerald and Henry Kissinger.
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Lollobrigida nearly stopped acting in 1997, but kept pursuing painting, photography and sculpture. She once spoke of her dedication to her work as well as her inability to rely on anyone else. My strength lies in my independent spirit and my enormous imagination is what gives me the strength and energy."
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While she was for more than 60 movies, the actress began acting with a skepticism beginning by studying drawing and sculpture at Rome's Accademia of Belle Arti. She began her career for films as an actress to pay for her family's expenses and also to help fund her studies.
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Lollobrigida was offered English classes and a stay in a luxurious hotel with Hughes but she was not impressed by him. In the end, after two and quarter months of dining and drinking in the hotel, she left for Italy but refused to take photos with him.
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She won yet another Globe award for her performance as Francesca Gioberti, the half-sister of Jane Wyman's character on the CBS show Falcon Crest, a role originally written by her fellow Italian screen star Sophia Loren.
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Lollobrigida who failed to run for an election to the European Parliament in 1999, also was a committed activist, humanitarian and patron for the National Italian American Foundation.
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The artist's work and photographs were showcased her work in Paris, Moscow and Venice and she was awarded numerous awards such as her being awarded the Legion of Honor as "artiste de valeur" from France in 1992.
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