Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida dies at 95

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Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, a voluptuous brunette who burst onto the screen after the war in Hollywood, has died at the age of 95, the Italian Minister of Culture announced on Monday.

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The former sex symbol, revealed in 1952 in Fanfan la tulipe by French director Christian-Jaque , had fractured his femur in a fall at his Roman home in September and required surgery.

“Farewell to a diva of the big screen, protagonist of more than half a century of Italian cinema history. Its charm is eternal. Ciao Lollo,” Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano tweeted.

Born on July 4, 1927 in the small village of Subiaco, in the heart of Abruzzo (central Italy), into a modest family who later moved to Rome , Gina Lollobrigida played with the greatest of her time in the 1950s and 1960s, from Frank Sinatra to Sean Connery, from Marcello Mastroianni to Humphrey Bogart.

She toured until 1962 in the United States. United then ended up returning to Italy. She then appeared only occasionally in cinema and on television.

“La Lollo” then returned to her first artistic loves, photography and then sculpture, to which she devoted herself entirely. from the early 1980s.