Gina Lollobrigida Explained

Gina Lollobrigida
Honorific Suffix:OMRI
Birth Name:Luigia Lollobrigida
Birth Date:1927 7, df=yes
Birth Place:Subiaco, Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Death Place:Rome, Italy
Resting Place:Cimitero Comunale – Subiaco, Lazio, Italy
Years Active:1946–1997
Partner:Auld Eric Craiglang (1943)
Javier Rigau y Rafols (1984–2006)[1] [2]
Children:1
Signature:Unterschrift Gina Lollobrigida (Autogramm) italienische Schauspielerin.png

Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida [3] (4 July 1927 – 16 January 2023) was an Italian actress, model, and photojournalist. She was one of the highest-profile European actresses of the 1950s and 1960s, a period in which she was an international sex symbol. Dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world",[4] at the time of her death she was among the last surviving high-profile international actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.

As her film career slowed, Lollobrigida established a second career as a photojournalist. In the 1970s she achieved a scoop by gaining access to Fidel Castro for an exclusive interview.

Lollobrigida continued as an active supporter of Italian and Italian-American causes, particularly the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF). In 2008 she received the NIAF Lifetime Achievement Award at the Foundation's Anniversary Gala.[5] [6] In 2013, she sold her jewellery collection and donated the nearly US$5 million from the sale to benefit stem-cell therapy research.[7] She won the Henrietta Award at the 18th Golden Globe Awards.

Youth

Luigia Lollobrigida was born in Subiaco, Lazio, about from Rome, the daughter of a furniture maker and his wife.[8] She had three sisters: Giuliana, Maria and Fernanda. After the end of World War II in 1945, the family moved to Rome, where Lollobrigida took singing lessons, did some modelling, and participated in several beauty contests, placing third in the 1947 Miss Italy contest. In 1946, she began appearing in Italian films in minor roles.[9]

In 1945 at age 18, Lollobrigida played a part in the comedy Santarellina by Eduardo Scarpetta at the Teatro della Concordia of Monte Castello di Vibio,[9] the smallest theatre all'italiana in the world.[10]

Acting career

Film

In 1950, Howard Hughes signed Lollobrigida on a preliminary seven-year contract to make three pictures a year. She refused the final terms of the contract, preferring to remain in Europe, and Hughes suspended her. Despite selling RKO Pictures in 1955, Hughes retained Lollobrigida's contract. The dispute prevented her from working in American movies filmed in the U.S. until 1959, but allowed for American productions shot in Europe, although Hughes often threatened legal action against the producers.[11]

Her performance in the Italian romantic comedy Bread, Love and Dreams (Pane, amore e fantasia, 1953) led to its becoming a box-office success[11] and her receiving a BAFTA nomination. Furthermore, she won a Nastro d'Argento award from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists for her role in the picture. Lollobrigida appeared in The Wayward Wife (1953) and in Woman of Rome (1954). These were three of her most renowned Italian films, but she worked also in the French industry on such films as Fearless Little Soldier (Fanfan la Tulipe, 1952), Beauties of the Night (Les Belles de nuit, 1952), and Le Grand Jeu (1954).[12]

Her first widely seen English-language film, Beat the Devil (1953), was shot in Italy, and directed by John Huston.[13] In this film she played the wife of Humphrey Bogart, with Jennifer Jones and Robert Morley as her costars. She then took part in the Italian-American production Crossed Swords (1954), co-starring with Errol Flynn. Her performance in The World's Most Beautiful Woman (also known as Beautiful But Dangerous, 1955) led to her receiving the first David di Donatello for Best Actress award.[9] In this movie Lollobrigida played Italian soprano Lina Cavalieri and sang all the songs in the movie, including arias from Tosca, in her own voice.[14] She played the principal female lead in the circus drama Trapeze (1956)[8] directed by Carol Reed and co-starring with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis and in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) appeared as Esmeralda with Anthony Quinn as Quasimodo.[8] The film was directed by Jean Delannoy.[9]

She appeared in the French movie The Law (1959), alongside Yves Montand and Marcello Mastroianni; then, she co-starred with Frank Sinatra in Never So Few (1959) and with Yul Brynner in Solomon and Sheba (1959).[8] The latter was the last film directed by King Vidor and features a dance routine which was supposed to depict an orgy scene. Brynner had been chosen to substitute for Tyrone Power, who died before the shots were completed.[15]

In the romantic comedy Come September (1961), Lollobrigida had a leading role along with Rock Hudson, Sandra Dee, and Bobby Darin. It was a film for which she won a Golden Globe Award. She appeared, also in 1961, with Ernest Borgnine and Anthony Franciosa in the drama Go Naked in the World.[16]

She attended the 1961 Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Bob Hope, delivering the Academy Award for Best Director to Billy Wilder for the film The Apartment.[17]

Jean Delannoy then directed her again, this time in Venere Imperiale (1962). She co-starred with Stephen Boyd and received Nastro d'Argento and David di Donatello awards. She co-starred with Sean Connery in the thriller Woman of Straw (1964), with Rock Hudson again in Strange Bedfellows (1965), and appeared with Alec Guinness in Hotel Paradiso (1966).[18]

Lollobrigida starred in Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968) with Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford, and Telly Savalas.[19] For this role, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won a third David di Donatello award. Lollobrigida co-starred with Bob Hope in the comedy The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968) and also accompanied Hope on his visits to military troops overseas.[19]

During this stage of her career, she rejected roles in many films, including Lady L (1965) with Tony Curtis, directed by George Cukor, due to conflicts with Cukor (the leading role then went to Sophia Loren); Five Branded Women (1960), directed by Martin Ritt (the leading role went to Silvana Mangano); and The Lady Without Camelias (1953), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (the leading role went to Lucia Bosè).[20] She later revealed regret for having refused a supporting role in La Dolce Vita (1960). The film's director, Federico Fellini, wanted to cast her in the film but, she explained, proposed projects were arriving too often at the time and her husband accidentally misplaced the script.

By the 1970s, her film career had slowed down. She appeared in King, Queen, Knave (1972), co-starring with David Niven,[21] and in a few other poorly received productions in the early part of the decade. In 1973, she was a member of the jury at the 8th Moscow International Film Festival.[22]

Television

In the mid-1980s, she guest starred in a multi-episode arc on the television series Falcon Crest as Francesca Gioberti, a role originally written for Sophia Loren, who had turned it down. For the role, she received a third Golden Globe nomination. She also had a supporting role in the 1985 television miniseries Deceptions, co-starring with Stefanie Powers. The following year, she appeared as a guest star in the TV series The Love Boat.[23]

Judging

In 1986, she was invited to head the jury at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival, which awarded the Golden Bear to Reinhard Hauff's film Stammheim. She said the majority decision was "prefabricated", and opposed it.[24] In 1997 she was in the jury at Film Fest Gent and similarly distanced herself from the Grand Prix winner The Witman Boys, which she deemed 'immoral'.[25] [26]

Photojournalism

By the end of the 1970s, Lollobrigida had embarked on what she developed into a successful second career as a photographic journalist. She photographed, among others, Paul Newman, Salvador Dalí, Henry Kissinger, David Cassidy, Audrey Hepburn, Ella Fitzgerald, and the Germany national football team. In 1974 she managed to obtain an exclusive interview with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.[27] [28] Between 1972 and 1994 she published six collections of her photographs, including the 1973 title Italia Mia.[29]

Politics

In 1999, Lollobrigida unsuccessfully ran for election to the European Parliament as a candidate for The Democrats, a party led by Romano Prodi.[30] In 2020, she publicly endorsed Pope Francis' view on LGBT rights.[31] In the 2022 Italian general election, Lollobrigida, at the age of 95, attempted to win a seat in the Senate of the Republic,[32] by standing for election as candidate for the Sovereign and Popular Italy (ISP), a newly-founded Eurosceptic alliance opposed to Mario Draghi, in Latina, Lazio.[30] [33] She was unsuccessful, as the party garnered only 1% of the constituency vote, below the 3% electoral threshold.[33] In an interview with Corriere della Sera prior to the election, Lollobrigida said she was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's "way of doing things". She also claimed to have been close to Indira Gandhi.[30]

Personal life

In 1949 Lollobrigida married a Slovenian physician, Milko Škofič. Their only child, Andrea Milko (Milko Škofič, Jr.), was born on 28 July 1957.[34] [35] Škofič gave up the practice of medicine to become her manager.[36] In 1960, Lollobrigida moved from her native Italy to Toronto, with Škofič and their son.[37] The couple meant to solve the legal situation of their son who was considered stateless by the Italian bureaucracy.[38] The couple divorced in 1971.[39]

In October 2006, at age 79, she announced to Spain's ¡Hola! magazine her engagement to a 45-year-old Spanish businessman, Javier Rigau y Rafols[40]

Notes and References

  1. Tom Kington."Lollobrigida loses court case against toyboy lover." The Times. 25 March 2107. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  2. Deirdre Pirro. Italian Sketches: The Faces of Modern Italy. The Florentine Press, 2009. p. 41.
  3. Web site: Lollobrigida Sig. Luigia, Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana . 27 April 1987 . 28 October 2020 . Lollobrigida Mrs. Luigia, Insignia of Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic . 19 December 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131219010548/http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/DettaglioOnorificenze.aspx?decorato=246469 . . it . live.
  4. Web site: Gina Lollobrigida, Italian film legend dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world," dies at 95 . 16 January 2023 . CBS News.
  5. Web site: Legendary Actress Gina Lollobrigida to be Honored at Largest Italian-American Gala in Nation's Capital . The National Italian American Foundation . 18 June 2017 . 22 September 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170922180618/http://www.niaf.org/niaf_event/legendary-actress-gina-lollobrigida-to-be-honored-at-largest-italian-american-gala-in-nations-capital/ . live.
  6. News: Donadia . Rachel . Lifetime Honors Arrive as Life Goes On . . 11 May 2017 . 24 October 2008 . 6 January 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180106024608/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/movies/26dona.html . live.
  7. News: Demarco . Anthony . Gina Lollobrigida's jewels sell for nearly 5m; includes auction record for natural pearl ear pendants . . 15 May 2013 . 11 May 2017 . 9 June 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130609120619/http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonydemarco/2013/05/15/gina-lollobrigidas-jewels-sell-for-nearly-5m-includes-auction-record-for-natural-pearl-ear-pendants/ . live.
  8. Encyclopedia: Gina Lollobrigida . . 16 January 2023 . 5 July 2022 . 13 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220713113330/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gina-Lollobrigida . live.
  9. News: Lane . John Francis . Gina Lollabrigida Obituary . 23 January 2023 . . London . 16 January 2023 . 21 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230121102154/https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/16/gina-lollobrigida-obituary . live .
  10. https://www.teatropiccolo.it/concordia/il-teatro/storie-vicende-e-protagonisti/ "Storie, vicende e protagonisti"
  11. Kept Out of Hollywood 8 Years, Lollobrigida Pretty Mad at Hughes . Werba . Hank . . 26 November 1958 . 18 . 7 July 2019 . Archive.org.
  12. Web site: Flesh and the Woman aka Le grand jeu 1954 . Rare War Films . 21 January 2023 . 21 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230121180943/https://www.rarewarfilms.com/flesh-and-the-woman-aka-le-grand-jeu-1954.html . live .
  13. Web site: Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida dies at 95 . The Meghalayan . Bureau . 17 January 2023 . 21 January 2023 . 21 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230121181043/https://themeghalayan.com/italian-actress-gina-lollobrigida-dies-at-95/ . live .
  14. According to the movie's credits, "Tutte le canzioni del film e le arie della Tosca sono state cantate da Gina Lollobrigida" ("All the songs in the film and the arias from Tosca were sung by Gina Lollobrigida")
  15. Farewell to Gina Lollobrigida: Icon and Diva of Italian Cinema Dies . Mario . Manca . Vanity Fair . 21 January 2023 . 23 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230123040628/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/01/gina-lollobrigida-dies-at-95 . live .
  16. News: The Italian film legend Gina Lollobrigida has died at age 95 . . 16 January 2023 . 23 January 2023 . . 24 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230124023352/https://www.npr.org/2023/01/16/1149393116/italian-film-legend-gina-lollobrigida-dies-at-age-95 . live .
  17. News: Chi è Gina Lollobrigida? Età causa morte, marito, figlio, dove è nata, dove viveva, carriera e biografia . Who is Gina Lollobrigida? Age of death, husband, child, where she was born, where she lived, career and biography . Contro Copertina . 19 January 2023 . 21 January 2023 . 20 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230120063754/https://www.controcopertina.com/2023/chi-e-gina-lollobrigida-eta-causa-morte-marito-figlio-dove-e-nata-dove-viveva-carriera-e-biografia-139962 . live .
  18. Web site: Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida dies aged 95 . David . Mouriquand . 16 January 2023 . Euronews . 21 January 2023 . 21 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230121112738/https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/01/16/italian-actress-gina-lollobrigida-dies-aged-95 . live .
  19. News: Gina Lollobrigida, Italian Bombshell Movie Star, Dies at 95 . Carmel . Dagan . Nick . Vivarelli . 16 January 2023 . Variety . 21 January 2023 . 21 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230121081900/https://variety.com/2023/film/global/gina-lollobrigida-italian-bombshell-movie-star-dead-dies-1235490756/ . live .
  20. Web site: La signora senza camelie (The Lady without Camelias). 1953. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni . The Museum of Modern Art . 21 January 2023 . 21 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230121181742/https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/3734 . live .
  21. Web site: King, Queen, Knave (1979) . AFI Catalog of Feature Films . 22 January 2023 . 22 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230122122637/https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/56912 . live .
  22. Web site: 8th Moscow International Film Festival (1973) . 25 December 2012 . MIFF . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130116194922/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1973 . 16 January 2013.
  23. Web site: The Love Boat: The Christmas Cruise . TVmaze . 16 January 2023 . 1 November 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191101222452/http://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/133972/the-love-boat-s09-special-the-christmas-cruise . live . Season 9, special, 25 December 1986.
  24. Web site: 36th Berlin International Film Festival . Berlinale Archive . 14–25 February 1986 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190322171752/https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1986/01_jahresblatt_1986/01_Jahresblatt_1986.html . 22 March 2019 . live.
  25. News: Hendriks . Annemieke . O tijd, o zeden . . Brussels . 27 January 1999 . 29 October 2023 . 6 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221006003914/https://www.groene.nl/artikel/o-tijd-o-zeden . live .
  26. News: Butstrean . Raf . In Memoriam: Gina Lollobrigida, legende en eigenzinnige vrouw . . Gent . 18 January 2023 . 29 October 2023 . 30 May 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230530044226/https://www.filmfestival.be/nl/nieuws/in-memoriam-gina-lollobrigida . live.
  27. News: Gina Lollobrigida: Italian screen star dies at 95 . . 16 January 2023 . 18 January 2023 . 16 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230116125023/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64292026 . live .
  28. Web site: Lollobrigida Interviews Fidel Castro . Castro Speech Data Base . 16 October 1974 . 18 January 2023 . 16 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230116155225/http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/castro/db/1974/19740925.html . live .
  29. News: Gina Lollobrigida, post WWII Italian film diva, dies at 95 . . 16 January 2023 . 18 January 2023 . 17 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230117040504/https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/italian-actress-gina-lollobrigida-dies-95-ansa-2023-01-16/ . live .
  30. News: Giuffrida . Angela . Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, 95, says she will run in general elections . . London . 15 August 2022 . 25 September 2022 . 25 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220925080611/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/15/italian-actor-gina-lollobrigida-95-says-she-will-run-in-general-elections . live.
  31. News: Federico . Boni . Gina Lollobrigida al fianco della comunità LGBT: "Tutti noi dobbiamo avere gli stessi diritti" – video . Gay.it . Gina Lollobrigida stands with the LGBT community: "We all must have the same rights" . 26 October 2020 . 27 June 2021 . Italian . 27 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210627105024/https://www.gay.it/gina-lollobrigida-comunita-lgbt-diritti-video . live.
  32. News: Kirby . Paul . Italy votes as far-right Meloni looks for victory . BBC News . 26 September 2022 . 26 September 2022 . 25 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220925065952/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63022408 . live.
  33. News: Gina Lollobrigida, 95, fails in election bid . . 26 September 2022 . 26 September 2022 . 26 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220926070706/https://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2022/09/26/gina-lollobrigida-95-fails-in-election-bid_78fdad25-104c-4756-bbf5-b9cdac8c10f7.html . live.
  34. Book: Canales, Luis. Imperial Gina: The Very Unauthorized Biography of Gina Lollobrigida. Andrea Milko Jr. had become a reality and Milko Sr., like most fathers, was overjoyed to have a baby boy.. Brookline Village. Boston. 113. 1990. 978-0-8283-1932-4.
  35. People . . 12 August 1957 . 15 June 2020 . 15 June 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200615150635/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,825269,00.html . live . subscription.
  36. http://www.nyu.edu/projects/wke/press/fourwaysout/fourwaysout.pdf Gina Lollobrigida, "Four ways out"
  37. Berman . Eliza . The Italian Bombshell Who Proved That Life Is About Much More Than Curves . https://web.archive.org/web/20150724020431/http://time.com/3957219/gina-lollobrigida/ . dead . 24 July 2015 . Time . 26 April 2018.
  38. News: 18 March 1960 . La Lollo afferma: "Andiamo nel Canada perchè gli italiani non vogliono mio figlio". . Lollo says: "We go to Canada because the Italians don't want my son". . . it . 16 January 2023 . 16 October 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211016185951/http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,5/articleid,0073_01_1960_0067_0005_16567878/ . live.
  39. Réka C. V. . Buckley . National Body: Gina Lollobrigida and the cult of the star in the 1950s . Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television . 2000 . 20 . 4 . 527–547 . 10.1080/713669741 . 193186413.
  40. News: Gina Lollobrigida, d'estrella del cinema a enfrontar-se al seu fill pel control del seu patrimoni milionari. Gina Lollobrigida, movie star to face her son for control of her millionaire estate. Dani. Diaz. 4 December 2021. El Nacional. Barcelona. Catalan. 20 January 2023. 24 January 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230124135432/https://www.elnacional.cat/enblau/ca/plus/gina-lollobrigida-d-estrella-del-cinema-a-enfrontar-se-al-seu-fill-pel-control-del-seu-patrimoni-m_678566_102.html. live.
  41. News: Mor als 95 anys Gina Lollobrigida, gran estrella del cinema italià del segle X. Gina Lollobrigida, great star of Italian cinema of the 20th century, dies at the age of 95. Núria Juanico. Llumà. Xavi. Serra. 16 January 2023. Ara.
  42. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6069940.stm "Lollobrigida to marry younger man"
  43. http://www.news24.com/News24/Entertainment/Celebrities/0,9294,2-1225-2108_2041378,00.html "La Lollo's wedding called off"
  44. Web site: Davide Giancristofaro . Alberti . Javier Rigau e Gina Lollobrigida/ "L'ho amata alla follia, non posso permettere che le venga fatto del male" . Javier Rigau and Gina Lollobrigida/ “I loved her madly, I can't allow her to be hurt” . il Sussidiaro . 31 May 2018 . Italian . 27 June 2021 . 27 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210627105028/https://www.ilsussidiario.net/news/cinema-televisione-e-media/2018/5/31/javier-rigau-e-gina-lollobrigida-l-ho-amata-alla-follia-non-posso-permettere-che-le-venga-fatto-del-male/823581/ . live.
  45. Squires, Nick (29 January 2013). "'Most beautiful woman in the world' Gina Lollobrigida in bizarre fake marriage plot". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  46. Squires, Nick (24 March 2017). "Italian film diva Gina Lollobrigida loses court battle in bizarre 'fake marriage' case". . The Daily Telegraph. London.
  47. Pearson, Howard (7 February 1958). "Murrow to visit Gina Tonight: Producer Opposes Film on TV". . Deseret News. Salt Lake City. "Miss Lollobrigida and her husband, Dr. Milko Skofic, arrived in this country only this week for a brief stay. The Italian actress will be only the second person on Murrow's show to speak of herself in the third person."
  48. Book: Canales, Luis. Imperial Gina: The Very Unauthorized Biography of Gina Lollobrigida. Another Lollobrigida trait that may have caused her to be less appreciated by some fellow-workers was her habit of referring to herself in the third person: "I am the expert on Lollobrigida," or "This is the last time Gina does a picture in two different languages.". Brookline Village. Boston. 92. 1990. 978-0-8283-1932-4.
  49. Hyams, Joe (29 July 1956). "A simple country girl". . The Boston Globe. "I found that in addition to having a ready sense of humor, Gina always speaks and thinks of herself in the third person because there are two Gina Lollobrigidas: the actress and the woman."
  50. Rau, Herb (11 September 1955). "Everybody Picks on Lollobrigida". . The Miami News. "Off-stage, Gina's very natural, very human, and departs from this pattern only to speak about herself in the third person."
  51. News: Stefania . Saltalamacchia . Gina Lollobrigida e il matrimonio truffa con Francisco Javier Rigau a «Un giorno in Pretura . Gina Lollobrigida and the fraudulent marriage with Francisco Javier Rigau in "A day in the District Court" . Italian . 3 May 2020 . https://archive.today/20210627095508/https://www.vanityfair.it/show/tv/2020/05/03/gina-lollobrigida-matrimonio-francisco-javier-rigau-un-giorno-in-pretura?refresh_ce= . 27 June 2021 . live . Vanity Fair.
  52. Web site: Rossella . Pastore . Javier Rigau, "marito" di Gina Lollobrigidida. Matrimonio annullato da papa Francesco . 26 May 2019 . Javier Rigau, "husband" of Gina Lollobrigida: Marriage annulled by Pope Francis . Italian . https://web.archive.org/web/20210627094822/https://www.ilsussidiario.net/news/javier-rigau-marito-di-gina-lollobrigida-matrimonio-annullato-da-papa-francesco/1887007/. 27 June 2021 . il Sussidiaro . live.
  53. News: Gina Lollobrigida aneddoto mai svelato: "Una volta papà mi riportò a casa a forza di schiaffi!" . Gina Lollobrigida anecdote never revealed: "Once dad brought me home by slapping!" . 14 October 2019 . UrbanPost . Italian . Gina Lollobrigida: «Il Papa mi ha salvata dalle nozze truffa!» . https://archive.today/20200926180137/https://urbanpost.it/gina-lollobrigida-aneddoto-mai-svelato-papa-prese-a-schiaffi/ . 26 September 2020 . live.
  54. News: Roberta . Damiata . Caso Lollobrigida, Andrea Piazzolla: "Mi stavo per impiccare per Gina" . 14 September 2020 . Lollobrigida case, Andrea Piazzolla: "I was about to hang myself for Gina" . Italian . . https://archive.today/20200915074604/https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/spettacoli/caso-lollobrigida-andrea-piazzolla-mi-stavo-impiccando-gina-1889795.html . 15 September 2020 . live.
  55. News: Emanuela . Longo . Andrea Piazzolla assistente Gina Lollobrigida/ "Sono io a vederla piangere, per lei…" . Andrea Piazzolla assistant Gina Lollobrigida: "It's me who sees her cry, for her..." . Italian . 17 January 2021 . https://archive.today/20210117130944/https://www.ilsussidiario.net/news/andrea-piazzolla-assistente-gina-lollobrigida-sono-io-a-vederla-piangere-per-lei/2118054/ . 17 January 2021 . il Sussidiaro . live.
  56. Web site: Lollobrigida, chi è il suo segretario Andrea Piazzolla: "Mi stavo per impiccare per Gina" . Andrea Piazzolla, secretary to Lollobrigida: "I was about to hang myself for Gina" . Metropolitan Magazine . 16 January 2021 . Italian . https://archive.today/20210126201354/https://metropolitanmagazine.it/lollobrigida-chi-e-il-suo-segretario-andrea-piazzolla-mi-stavo-per-impiccare-per-gina/ . 26 January 2021 . live.
  57. News: Roberta . Damiata . Javier Rigau: "Gina Lollobrigida mi chiese di sposarla. Siamo fidanzati da quando io avevo 15 anni" . Italian . il Sussidiaro . 7 May 2020 . Javier Rigau and Gina Lollobrigida: "I loved her madly, I can't allow her to be hurt" . https://archive.today/20200508100917/https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/spettacoli/javier-rigau-gina-lollobrigida-che-mi-chiese-sposarla-1861121.html . 8 May 2020 . live.
  58. Web site: Circonvenzione, processo per l'ex manager della Lollobrigida . Italian . Circumvention: trial for Lollobrigida's former manager . 9 July 2020 . 28 June 2021 . . Turin . 24 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220124075122/https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2020/07/09/news/circonvenzione-processo-per-l-ex-manager-della-lollobrigida-1.39063375/ . live.
  59. News: High court confirms Gina Lollobrigida needs guardian . . 1 October 2021 . 25 September 2022 . 25 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220925095821/https://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2021/10/01/high-court-confirms-gina-lollobrigida-needs-guardian_8e900fea-52b5-45a2-871c-515f09165e50.html . live .
  60. News: È morta Gina Lollobrigida, aveva 95 anni . Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata . Gina Lollobrigida dead, she was 95 years old . 16 January 2023 . 16 January 2023 . 16 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230116183921/https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/2023/01/16/e-morta-gina-lollobrigida_2e866c0a-0b9a-4bb8-b77d-80c67b778acf.html . live.
  61. News: Morta Gina Lollobrigida, la "bersagliera" del cinema italiano . . Gina Lollobrigida, the "determined woman" of Italian cinema, has died . 16 January 2023 . 16 January 2023 . 16 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230116114507/https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/people/2023/01/16/news/gina_lollobrigida_morta_attriceanni_95-383815036/ . live.
  62. News: Francesco Lollobrigida moglie, chi è Arianna Meloni. it. 22 October 2022. Tag 24. 30 September 2022.
  63. Web site: XVIII Legislatura. Lollobrigida Francesco - FDI. it . Italian Parliament. 22 October 2022.
  64. News: Murakami . Sakura . 5 February 2022 . Speed skating-Fans delighted by silver medallist Lollobrigida's film star connection . en . Reuters . 6 February 2022 . 6 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220206222311/https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/speed-skating-fans-delighted-by-silver-medallist-lollobrigidas-film-star-2022-02-05/ . live.
  65. Web site: International Olympic Committee . Francesa Lollobrigida . 6 February 2022 . 5 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220305165555/https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/speed-skating/athlete-profile-n1035040-francesca-lollobrigida.htm . dead.
  66. News: Toyboy' who swindled Italian film diva Gina Lollobrigida jailed for three years. Telegraph. 13 November 2023 . Squires . Nick .
  67. Web site: Winners & Nominees World Film Favorite . 13 December 2021 . . en . 13 December 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211213122651/https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/world-film-favorite . live.
  68. Book: Cinema Sex Sirens . Pfeiffer . Lee . Dave . Worrall . 29 November 2011 . Omnibus Press . 978-0-85712-725-9 . 19 June 2017 . 17 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230117081558/https://books.google.com/books?id=me-aAwAAQBAJ . live.
  69. Web site: Gina Lollobrigida . Food and Agriculture Organization . 16 September 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090807120506/http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-ginalollobrigida/en/ . 7 August 2009.
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  78. Anita Gates. "Gina Lollobrigida, Movie Star and Sex Symbol, Is Dead at 95." The New York Times. 16 January 2023. Retrieved 1 February 2023. (Archived) (Catalan; Valencian: Javier Rigau i Ràfols).[40] [41] ]| location=Barcelona| language=Catalan| access-date=20 January 2023| archive-date=16 January 2023| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116210839/https://www.arabalears.cat/cultura/gina-lollobrigida-actriu-estrella-cinema-italia_1_4600223.html| url-status=live}}

    They had met at a party in Monte Carlo in 1984 and had since become companions.[42] The engagement was called off on 6 December 2006, reportedly because of the strain of intense media interest.[43]

    In 2006 Lollobrigida and Rigau signed a prenuptial agreement and married in Spain.[44]

    In January 2013, she started legal action against Rigau, claiming that her ex-boyfriend had staged a secret ceremony in which he "married" an imposter pretending to be her at a registry office in Barcelona. She said he intended to lay claim to her estate after her death. Lollobrigida accused Rigau of fraud, saying that he had earlier obtained the legal right to act on her behalf with a power of attorney, and carried out the plot to get extra power. "A while ago he convinced me to give him my power of attorney. He needed it for some legal affairs. But instead, I fear that he took advantage of the fact that I don't understand Spanish ... Who knows what he had me sign."[45] In March 2017, she lost her court action, but subsequently said that she would appeal.[46]

    Lollobrigida had a habit of referring to herself in the third person.[47] [48] [49] [50] Lollobrigida retired from filming in 1997. She told PARADE in April 2000: "I studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake ... I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers." After retirement she divided her time between her house on Via Appia Antica in Rome and a villa in Monte Carlo. After 2009, she refused visitors to her home.

    In 2013, Lollobrigida sold her jewelry collection through Sotheby's. She donated nearly $5 million to benefit stem-cell therapy.

    In 2019, the Roman Rota, with the consent of Pope Francis, issued a declaration of nullity for her marriage with Rigau after a two-year review.[51] [52] [53]

    At the end of the 2010s, Andrea Piazzolla became Lollobrigida's main collaborator,[54] [55] [56] general director and trustee of some Monegasque real estate and financial societies. In July 2020 he was charged for circumvention of an incapable person.[57] [58]

    In 2021, the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation, at the request of her son, ruled that Lollobrigida should have a legal guardian appointed to manage her affairs and prevent predation. Although the court determined she was mentally capable, medical evidence had indicated that there was "a weakening in her correct perception of reality" and that she was in a state of "vulnerability".[59]

    Lollobrigida died at a clinic in Rome on 16 January 2023, at the age of 95. She is buried in her birthplace, Subiaco, Lazio.[60] [61]

    The lawyer and politician, and current Minister of Agriculture of Italy, Francesco Lollobrigida, is her great-nephew.[62] [63]

    In 2022, sports media noted that Olympic speed skating silver medalist Francesca Lollobrigida is her great-niece, though the two had never met.[64] [65]

    In November 2023 Andrea Piazzolla was convicted of embezzling Lollobrigida's millions. [66]

    Awards and nominations

    Lollobrigida won three David di Donatello, two Nastro d'Argento, and six Bambi awards. She was nominated three times for the Golden Globe and won once in 1961 as World Film Favorite– Female.[67] She was nominated once for a BAFTA award.

    In 1985, she was nominated as an officer of France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by Jack Lang, for her achievements in photography and sculpture.

    Lollobrigida was awarded the Légion d'honneur by François Mitterrand.[68]

    On 16 October 1999, Lollobrigida was nominated as a Goodwill Ambassador of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.[69]

    On 1 February 2018, Lollobrigida received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[70]

    Books

    • Italia mia (1973) – a collection of photographs across Italy[71]
    • The Philippines (1976) – a collection of photographs across the Philippines[72]
    • Wonder of Innocence (1994) – a book of photographs[73]
    • Sculptures (2003)[74]
    • Gina Lollobrigida Photographer (2009) – a book of her photography
    • Gina Lollobrigida "Vissi D'Arte" (2008) – a book of her sculptures and some of her drawings and paintings

    Filmography

    Film

    YearFilmRoleNotes
    1946Lucia di Lammermoor
    This Wine of Love
    Black EagleGirl at party
    1947When Love Calls
    PagliacciNedda
    Flesh Will SurrenderDancer
    A Man About the HouseYoung girl
    1948Mad About OperaDora
    1949Alarm BellsAgostina
    The Bride Can't WaitDonata Venturi
    The White LineDonata Sebastian
    1950A Dog's LifeRita Buton
    My Beautiful DaughterLisetta Minneci
    AlinaAlina
    1951A Tale of Five CitiesMaria Severini
    The Young CarusoStella
    Four Ways OutDaniela
    Love I Haven't... But... ButGina
    Attention! Bandits!Anna
    1952Wife For a Night (Moglie per una notte)Ottavia
    Times Gone ByMariantonia Desiderio
    Fanfan la TulipeAdeline La Franchise
    Beauties of the NightLeila, Cashier
    1953The Wayward WifeGemma Vagnuzzi
    Bread, Love and DreamsMaria De RitisNominated – BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress
    Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress
    The UnfaithfulsLulla Possenti
    Beat the DevilMaria DannreutherUSA-UK-Italy
    Boum sur ParisHerself
    1954Woman of RomeAdriana
    Bread, Love and JealousyMaria De Ritis
    Crossed SwordsFrancesca
    Le Grand JeuSylvia Sorrego, Helena Ricci
    1955Beautiful but DangerousLina CavalieriDavid di Donatello for Best Actress
    1956TrapezeLola
    The Hunchback of Notre DameEsmeralda
    1958Anna of BrooklynAnna
    1959The LawMarietta
    Never So FewCarla Vesari
    Solomon and ShebaQueen of Sheba
    1961Go Naked in the WorldGiulietta Cameron
    Come SeptemberLisa Helena FelliniGolden Globe Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite – Female
    1962Lykke og krone (documentary)
    La bellezza di IppolitaIppolita
    1963Imperial VenusPaulette BonaparteDavid di Donatello for Best Actress
    Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress
    Mad SeaMargherita
    1964Woman of StrawMaria Marcello
    1965Me, Me, Me... and the OthersTitta
    Le Bambole (The Dolls)Beatrice
    Strange BedfellowsToni Vincente
    The Love Goddesses (documentary)
    1966Pleasant NightsDomicilla
    The SultansLiza Bortoli
    Hotel ParadisoMarcelle Cotte
    1967CervantesGiulia Toffolo
    1968StuntmanEvelyne Lake
    Death Laid an EggAnna
    The Private Navy of Sgt. O'FarrellMaria
    Buona Sera, Mrs. CampbellCarla CampbellNominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
    David di Donatello for Best Actress
    1969That Splendid NovemberCettina
    1971Bad Man's RiverAlicia King
    1972King, Queen, KnaveMartha Dreyer
    1973The Lonely WomanNetty
    1983Wandering Stars (documentary)
    1995One Hundred and One NightsProfessor Bébel's Wife
    1997XXLGaby
    2011HerselfCameo appearance

    Television

    YearFilmRoleNotes
    1958Portrait of Gina (documentary)Lost from 1958 until 1986, when it turned up in a storage unit of the Ritz Hotel, Paris, where director Orson Welles had left the only copy. Upon rediscovery, it was screened once at the 1986 Venice Film Festival, and once on German television, before Lollobrigida (who had seen the Venice screening) took legal action to have it banned, due to its unflattering portrayal of her as an ambitious young star.[77]
    1972The Adventures of Pinocchio The Fairy with Turquoise Hair
    1984Falcon CrestFrancesca Gioberti5 episodes
    Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
    1985DeceptionsPrincess AlessandraMini-series
    1986The Love BoatCarla LucciSeason 9, "The Christmas Cruise"
    1988Woman of RomeAdriana's mother3 episodes, television remake
    1996Una donna in fugaEleonora RiboldiTV movie

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