Italy’s Gina Lollobrigida, the late star of the Golden Age of Hollywood dies at 95 tradition minister Gennaro Sangiuliano introduced Monday.
“Farewell to a diva of the silver screen, the protagonist of more than half a century of Italian cinema history. Her charm will remain eternal,” Sangiuliano wrote after Italy’s ANSA news company reported her demise.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni additionally paid tribute to Lollobrigida, famed when youthful for her biting wit and sensual magnificence, describing the actor as a “great talent, passionate, intense, enthralling.”
She was “one of the most important performers of her generation, who contributed to the diffusion of the Italian image in the world,” Meloni stated in a press release.
Lollobrigida had undergone an operation in a Rome clinic in September after breaking her femur, ANSA reported.
Her funeral can be held on Thursday in one of many church buildings in Piazza del Popolo in Rome, it stated.
Best recognized for Luigi Comencini’s 1953 basic “Bread, Love and Dreams,” and Jean Delannoy’s 1956 “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, Lollobrigida starred with lots of the main males of the time, together with Errol Flynn, Burt Lancaster, and Humphrey Bogart.
Born on July 4, 1927, in Subiaco, a mountain village 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Rome, her large breakthrough got here in 1953 starring alongside Bogart in John Huston’s romp “Beat the Devil.”
Bogart stated on the time Lollobrigida made “Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple.”
Lollobrigida gained seven David di Donatello awards throughout her profession, Italy’s Oscar equal.
But by the Seventies she had turned from appearing to sculpture and photojournalism, together with getting a scoop interview and photograph shoot with Cuban chief Fidel Castro.
She was again within the highlight in 2021, amid a bitter authorized battle together with her son over her fortune.
Italy’s Supreme Court dominated she wanted a authorized guardian to cease folks from preying on her wealth, due to a “weakening” in her notion of actuality.
