Gina Lollobrigida – a life in pictures
Actor, photographer, sculptor and style icon, Gina Lollobrigida has died at the age of 95. La Lollo’s heyday was the 1950s and 60s and here we look back at her fabulous life
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Pagliacci, 1948
Luigina Lollobrigida was born in Subiaco in Italy on 4 July 1927Photograph: Cinetext/Allstar
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Lollobrigida wearing an evening dress, photographed in 1952 for a feature in Picture Post entitled Stars Bring Fashions From Italy
Photograph: Haywood Magee/Getty Images
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Lollobrigida in the 1950s
Photograph: Henry Gris/FPG/Getty Images
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Beat the Devil, 1953
Lollobrigida leads donkeys carrying actors Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre along a street in Ravello, Italy in 1953, during a break from filmingPhotograph: AP
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A wardrobe assistant helps Gina Lollobrigida get into her corset in 1954
Photograph: Ullstein Bild/Getty Images
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Sophia Loren, left, Yvonne de Carlo, centre, and Lollobrigida at the Ball of Stars at the Berlin film festival in 1954
Photograph: Popperfoto
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Woman of Rome, 1954
Pictured with Renato TontiniPhotograph: Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images
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Lollobrigida in 1955
Photograph: Everett/REX/Shutterstock
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Lollobrigida prepares to photograph Salvador Dali in his studio at the St Regis hotel in New York in 1955
Photograph: Everett/REX/Shutterstock
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Hundreds of fans, mostly teenagers, halt Lollobrigida’s car as she arrives in Stuttgart, Germany in 1957.
Photograph: AP
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Never So Few, 1959
Pictured with Frank SinatraPhotograph: MGM/Allstar
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Solomon and Sheba, 1959
Pictured with Yul BrynnerPhotograph: www.ronaldgrantarchive.com
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Lollobrigida with her husband, physician Milko Skofic, and their son Andrea Milko on the set of Come September in 1960. The couple were married in 1949 and divorced in 1971. Andrea was born in 1957.
Photograph: Henry Gris/FPG/Getty Images
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Lollobrigida in Genova on 20 September 1960.
Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
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Come September, 1961
Pictured with Rock HudsonPhotograph: Universal Pictures/Getty Images
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Venere Imperiale, 1962
Winner of the David di Donatello award for best actress for her portrayal of Napoleon’s sister, Pauline BonapartePhotograph: Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images
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Woman of Straw, 1964
Pictured with Sean ConneryPhotograph: Warner Bros/Allstar
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Lollobrigida at her home on the ancient Appian Way on the outskirts of Rome in 1964. She was an accomplished photographer and a book of her work called Italia Mia was published in 1974
Photograph: Girolamo di Majo/AP
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Hotel Paradiso, 1966
Pictured with Alec GuinnessPhotograph: Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock
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La morte ha fatto l’uovo, 1968
Gina Lollobrigida on setPhotograph: Jim Pringle/AP
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Lollobrigida poses wearing a Pucci design in 1968
Photograph: Everett/REX/Shutterstock
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Falcon Crest, 1984
Pictured with Lorenzo LamasPhotograph: Lorimar/Allstar
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Lollobrigida on the red carpet at the opening of the Gina Lollobrigida Fotografa exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in 2009
Photograph: Marilla Sicilia/REX/Shutterstock
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Lollobrigida admires her 90th birthday cake at the official Gina Lollobrigida Birthday Celebrations in Rome on 4 July 2017
Photograph: Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images
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