The 90-year-old Gina Lollobrigida, one of Europe’s biggest divas and a global sex symbol during the 1950s and ’60s worked with Hollywood heavyweights such as Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Errol Flynn and Rock Hudson.
“La Lollo,” as the Italians call her, is best known among her countrymen for Luigi Comencini’s 1953 classic “Bread, Love and Dreams.” Outside Italy, she is famous for playing seductive gypsy Esmeralda in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1956) opposite Anthony Quinn, Queen Sheba with Yul Brynner in King Vidor’s hit epic “Solomon and Sheba” (1959) and Napoleon’s sister Paolina Bonaparte in “Imperial Venus” (1962).
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1, Lollobrigida received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Your first mention in Variety is a review in 1950 of Luigi Zampa’s “Campane a Martello” (Children of Chance).
What’s your recollection of “Campane”?It was a strange story, about two prostitutes who were very generous because they gave money to an orphanage … I remember
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