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GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA
Gina Lollobrigida (born 4 July 1927 in Subiaco, Italy), is an Italian actress and photojournalist. She was one of Italy's most prominent actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s.
Born Luigina Lollobrigida, she was one of four daughters of a furniture manufacturer (her sisters are Giuliana, Maria and Fernanda). She spent her youth in a picturesque mountain village. In her youth, Gina did some modelling, 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 Italia pageant and came in 3rd place. The contest was won by Lucia Bosé and second place was Gianna Maria Canale - they would both go on to be actresses, though neither would come near Lollobrigida's success.
Her appearance in Italian films brought her to the attention of Hollywood and she made her first American film, Beat the Devil, in 1953. As her popularity increased, Lollobrigida earned the nickname The World's Most Beautiful Woman after her signature 1955 movie.
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She made another notable appearance in Trapeze with Burt Lancaster in 1956 and starred in The Hunchback of Notre Dame the same year. In 1959 she co-starred with Frank Sinatra in Never So Few and with Yul Brynner in Solomon and Sheba. The latter was notable for having Brynner replace Tyrone Power (who died during filming), for being the last film directed by King Vidor, and for an orgy scene extremely licentious for Hollywood motion pictures of that era.
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In 1961 she made one of her most popular films, Come September, with Rock Hudson, for which she won the Golden Globe as "World Film Favorite." She co-starred with him again in 1965's Strange Bedfellows and appeared alongside Alec Guinness in 1966's Hotel Paradiso. In 1968 she starred in the enjoyable Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell with Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, and Telly Savalas, the plot of which is the basis for the stage musical Mamma Mia!. For this role she was nominated for a Golden Globe.
Lollobrigida co-starred with Bob Hope in the comedy The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell and also accompanied Hope on his visits to military troops overseas.
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Gina Lollobrigida was a wildly popular Italian actress and sex symbol of the 1950s and '60s. She was born into a working-class family, and raised in an unpretentious suburb of Rome. She was discovered, legend has it, by a stranger on the street, who offered her work as an extra in films.
Her first film was 1946's Aquila nera (The Black Eagle) with Rossano Brazzi, and her first leading role was in the opera Pagliacci, with Lollobrigida's singing dubbed. Her first major success as a star was in Miss Italia, a backstage drama set at a beauty contest and released in America as My Beautiful Daughter. She was an international sensation after the swashbuckling comedy Fanfan la Tulipe (Fan-Fan the Tulip). When she starred in La Donna più Bella del Mondo (The World's Most Beautiful Woman) in 1956, the title was perfectly plausible.
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In the mid 1970s, Paul Newman was interviewed on a television chat show about his social and political opinions. Newman was candid but seemed slightly ill-at-ease, and eventually exclaimed "Oh come on. People don't want to hear this. Let's talk about movies and glamour and Gina Lollobrigida!" The audience all laughed. What is significant about this, apart from Paul Newman's lack of self-importance, is that he cited Gina Lollobrigida, with whom he had never worked. He did not cite a Hollywood glamour girl, nor an Italian actress he had worked with, like Sophia Loren or Pier Angeli. He named Gina Lollobrigida.
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Italian actress and photojournalist Gina Lollobrigida (1927), was one of Europe’s most prominent film stars of the 1950’s. ‘La Lollo’ was the first European sex symbol of the post war years and she paved the way into Hollywood for her younger colleagues Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale. At the age of 3 Luigina was already selected as the most beautiful toddler of Italy and in her youth she started to model. She became an art student and made her film debut in an uncredited bit role in Lucia di Lammermoor (1946, Piero Ballerini). In 1947, she entered the Miss Italia pageant and came in third. The contest was won by Lucia Bosé and second was Gianna Maria Canale - both became also film actresses, though not nearly as successful as Lollobrigida. That same year Gina was discovered by director Mario Costa who gave her a small part in L’elisir d’amore (1946, Mario Costa) A bigger part followed in the opera film Pagliacci (1948, Mario Costa), in which her singing was dubbed. She also started to model as Gina Loris for the foto romanzi, the popular Italian photo novels. Her first major success as a star was in Miss Italia (1950, Duilio Coletti), a backstage drama set at a beauty contest. It was followed by the delightful comedy Vita da cani (1950, Mario Monicelli, Steno) and the award winning crime drama La città si difende (1951, Pietro Germi), based on a script by Federico Fellini. In France she co-starred with Gérard Philipe in the swashbuckling comedy Fanfan la Tulipe (1952, Christian Jacque) and the charming fantasy Les Belles de Nuit (1952, René Clair). Her first American film was Beat the Devil (1953, John Huston). She was at her best as Humphrey Bogart's wife in this odd but endearing noiresque comedy. She returned to Italy and had her definitive breakthrough with the huge global hit Pane, amore e fantasia (1953, Luigi Comencini), in which she starred with Vittorio de Sica. This romantic comedy was nominated for an Oscar and led to three sequels, including Pane, amore e gelosia (1954, Luigi Comencini). Next she earned her nickname ‘The World's Most Beautiful Woman’ for her signature film La donna più bella del mondo (1956, Robert Z. Leonard).
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Gina Lollobrigida will always be remembered as the first sex symbol to emerge from the rubble of postwar Europe. Her rise in Italy coincided with the decline of the neorealist movement. Italian filmmakers had been concentrating on making films that showed the depressing reality of Italy after the war, and although these films were critically acclaimed in other countries, they were unpopular in their home market, where audiences wanted escapist Hollywood-style glamour rather than confrontation with the day-to-day reality of their drab lives. Lollobrigida became the embodiment of their escapist fantasies after Italian producers realized her potential and cast her in films providing Italian cinemagoers with "rosy realism." As a result she played a role in boosting Italy to a major position on the world's film market.
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