Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international film stardom during the 1950s and she was dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world” after the title of one her movies, died in Rome on Monday (16th January 2023), her agent said. She was 95.
Born to a working class family in a poor mountainous area east of Rome, she studied sculpture then got her break in the film world after finishing third in the 1947 Miss Italia beauty contest. (The winner that year was Lucia Bose.)
Besides
“The World’s Most Beautiful Woman” in 1955, career highlights included
Golden Globe-winner “Come September,” with Rock Hudson; “Trapeze;” “Beat the Devil,” a 1953 John Huston film starring
Humphrey Bogart and
Jennifer Jones; and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell,” which won Lollobrigida Italy’s top movie award, a David di Donatello, as best actress in 1969.
In Italy, she worked with some of the country’s top directors following the war, including Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Pietro Germi and Vittorio De Sica...
Source : India Today
