Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, one of many final icons of the Golden Age of Hollywood, has died aged 95, tradition minister Gennaro Sangiuliano introduced Monday.
“Farewell to a diva of the silver screen, protagonist of more than half a century of Italian cinema history. Her charm will remain eternal,” Sangiuliano wrote after Italy`s ANSA news company reported her dying.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni additionally paid tribute to Lollobrigida, famed when youthful for her biting wit and sensual magnificence, describing the actor as a “great talent, passionate, intense, enthralling”.
She was “one of the most important performers of her generation, who contributed to the diffusion of the Italian image in the world”, Meloni stated in an announcement.
Lollobrigida had undergone an operation in a Rome clinic in September after breaking her femur, ANSA reported.
Her funeral can be held on Thursday in one of many church buildings in Piazza del Popolo in Rome, it stated.
Best recognized for Luigi Comencini`s 1953 traditional “Bread, Love and Dreams”, and Jean Delannoy`s 1956 “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, Lollobrigida starred with most of the main males of the time, together with Errol Flynn, Burt Lancaster and Humphrey Bogart.
Born on July 4, 1927, in Subiaco, a mountain village 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of Rome, her large breakthrough got here in 1953 starring alongside Bogart in John Huston`s romp “Beat the Devil”.
Bogart stated on the time Lollobrigida made “Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple”.
Lollobrigida received seven David di Donatello awards throughout her profession, Italy`s Oscar equal.
But by the Nineteen Seventies she had turned from performing to sculpture and photojournalism, together with getting a scoop interview and picture shoot with Cuban chief Fidel Castro.
She was again within the highlight in 2021, amid a bitter authorized battle along with her son over her fortune.
Italy`s Supreme Court dominated that she wanted a authorized guardian to cease individuals preying on her wealth, due to a “weakening” in her notion of actuality.
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