Italian actress who left her mark on the 1950s and 1960s: Who is Gina Lollobrigida?

Gina Lollobrigida was born on July 4, 1927, in Subiaco, Italy. Lollobrigida, who was the daughter of a furniture maker and spent her childhood in a mountain village, worked as a model in her youth and then participated in beauty contests and achieved success. The actress, who started to appear in Italian films at that time, entered the Italian beauty contest in 1947 and came in 3rd in this contest. Gina Lollobrigida's beauty caught the attention of Hollywood and in 1953 she starred in her first American movie, "Defeat the Devil."

PRIVATE LIFE OF GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA

Gina Lollobrigida married Yugoslavian physicist Milko Skofic in 1949, and the couple had a child named Milko Skofic Jr.

Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida (4 July 1927 – 16 January 2023) was an Italian actress, model, photojournalist, artist and politician. She was one of the highest-profile European actresses of the 1950s and 1960s, a period in which she was an international sex symbol. She was among the last surviving high-profile international actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.

Gina Lollobrigida, known to the Italian public as 'La Lollo'; played with many famous names such as Humphrey Bogart, Rock Hudson, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, and Frank Sinatra.

Lollobrigida was born on July 4, 1927, in Subiaco, located in the mountainous region east of Rome; 'Lucia di Lammermoor' (1946), 'The Love of This Wine' (1946), 'The Return of the Black Eagle' (1946), 'Looking for Love' (1947), 'Meat Will Surrender' (1947), 'A Man About Home' ' (1947), 'Angry About Opera' (1948), 'The Bridge Can't Wait' (1949), 'The White Line' (1949), 'A Dog's Tale' (1950), 'Miss Italy' (1950), 'Children of Luck' ' (1950), 'Alina' (1950), 'Tale of Five Cities' (1951), 'Little Caruso' (1951) and 'Four Roads' (1951).

Lollobrigida, who left her mark in the 1950s and 1960s, turned to photography, sculpture, and politics after leaving the world of cinema.