Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international film stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed 'the most beautiful woman in the world' after the title of one her movies, has died.
FILE - Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida arrives at the"Monaco Red Cross Ball", Friday, Aug. 1, 2014, in Monaco. Italian film star Gina Lollobrigida has died in Rome at age 95.Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international film stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world" after the title of one her movies, died in Rome on Monday, her agent said. She was 95.
A drawn portrait of the diva graced a 1954 cover of Time magazine, which in an article about Italian movie-making likened her to a "goddess." More than a half-century later, Lollobrigida still turned heads with a head full of auburn curly hair and her statuesque figure. Besides "The World's Most Beautiful Woman" in 1955, career highlights included Golden Globe-winner "Come September," with Rock Hudson; "Trapeze;" "Beat the Devil," a 1953 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones; and "Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell," which won Lollobrigida Italy's top movie award, a David di Donatello, as best actress in 1969.
Two of her more popular films at home were Comencini's "Pane Amore Fantasia" in 1953, and the sequel a year later, "Pane Amore Gelosia" . In each of them, her male foil was Vittorio Gassman, one of Italy's most leading men on the screen.
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