Profile of Gina Lollobrigida on Famous Like Me

Gina Lollobrigida (born on July 4, 1927) is an Italian actress who was born Luigina Lollobrigida in Subiaco, Italy in the Lazioregion.

Biography

Lollobrigida is the daughter of a furniture manufacturer, and spent her youth in a picturesque mountain village. In her youth, Gina did some modeling, and from there she went to participate successfully in several beauty contests. At around this time, she began appearing in Italian language films. In 1947, Gina entered the Miss Italy pageant and came in 3rd place.

In 1949 she married a Yugoslavian physician, Milko Skofic. (They had one son, and were divorced in 1971). Her beauty brought her to the attention of Hollywood, making her first American film, Beat the Devil, in 1953. Following that, she was cast in a series of light romantic comedies considered minor by some. As her popularity increased, Lollobrigida earned the nickname "The World's Most Beautiful Woman" (1955) after her signature movie. In 1966 Gina had an affair with comedian Jerry Lewis. She has now largely retired from acting, and concentrates on photography and business ventures. In 1999, she contested the elections for European Parliament unsuccessfully.

Trivia

She and the 7-years-younger fellow Italian actress Sophia Loren have publicly traded insults, and they don't get along.

Filmography

• Lucia di Lammermoor (1946)
• This Wine of Love (1946)
• Return of the Black Eagle (1946)
• When Love Calls (1947)
• Pagliacci (1947)
• Flesh Will Surrender (1947)
• A Man About the House (1947)
• Mad About Opera (1948)
• The Bride Can't Wait (1949)
• The White Line (1949)
• A Dog's Life (1950)
• Miss Italy (1950)
• Children of Chance (1950)
• Alina (1950)
• A Tale of Five Cities(1951)
• The Young Caruso (1951)
• Four Ways Out (1951)
• Love I Haven't... But... But (1951)
• Attention! Bandits! (1951)
• Wife for a Night (1952)
• Times Gone By (1952)
• Fanfan la Tulipe (1952)
• Beauties of the Night (1952)
• The Wayward Wife (1953)
• Bread, Love and Dreams (1953)
• The Unfaithfuls (1953)
• Beat the Devil (1953)
• Woman of Rome (1954)
• Bread, Love and Jealousy (1954)
• A Day in Court (1954)
• Flesh and the Woman (1954)
• Crossed Swords (1954)
• The World's Most Beautiful Woman (1955)
• Trapeze (1956)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
• Anna of Brooklyn (1958)
• The Law (1959)
• Never So Few (1959)
• Solomon and Sheba (1959)
• Go Naked in the World (1961)
• Come September (1961)
• Lykke og krone (1962) (documentary)
• The Beautiful Ippolita (1962)
• Imperial Venus (1963)
• Mad Sea (1963)
• Woman of Straw (1964)
• Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1965)
• The Dolls (1965)
• Strange Bedfellows (1965)
• Pleasant Nights (1966)
• The Sultans (1966)
• Hotel Paradiso (1966)
• Cervantes (1967)
• Stuntman (1968)
• A Curious Way to Love (1968)
• The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968)
• Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
• That Splendid September (1969)
• Bad Man's River (1971)
• King, Queen, Knave (1972)
• Mortal Sin (1973)
• Wandering Stars (1983) (documentary)
• A Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema (1995)
• Escape in One Woman (1996)
• XXL (1997)

External Link

• Gina Lollobrigida at the Internet Movie Database

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