At a venerable age, the Italian film star Gina Lollobrigida (Italian Gina Lollobrigida - Italian.), once called the most beautiful woman in the world, preferred to filmmaking sculpture and photography, saying that it is impossible to call art what is shown in cinemas of modern times. By the way, her first solo exhibition as an artist took place not somewhere, but in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. According to the actress herself, the exhibition was a great success among Russian admirers.
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At a venerable age, the Italian film star Gina Lollobrigida (Italian Gina Lollobrigida - Italian.), once called the most beautiful woman in the world, preferred to filmmaking sculpture and photography, saying that it is impossible to call art what is shown in cinemas of modern times. By the way, her first solo exhibition as an artist took place not somewhere, but in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. According to the actress herself, the exhibition was a great success among Russian admirers.
The birthplace of Gina (her real name is Luigina) is the Italian city of Subiaco, her father was a furniture maker who had four daughters. Repeatedly winning local beauty contests, Gina in 1947 dared to take part in the contest "Miss Italy", where she took third place. Ironically, the first places were taken by Lucia Bose and Gianna Maria Canale, who also devoted themselves to acting careers, but their acting successes were much more modest than that of Lolobrigida.
And for Gina, participation in that competition was fateful: she drew the attention of the luminaries of the cinema world, as a result of which in 1946 she successfully debuted in the film “Love Drink”, and then in 1947 she starred in the film “Love Drink”.
film "Payatsy" . In 1953, she was invited to Hollywood, and her first American film was
"Devil's Sprouts" . After that, “the most beautiful woman in the world” starred with Burt Lancaster in the film “Trapeze” in 1956 and almost simultaneously with this came the picture.
Notre Dame de Paris Where Gina starred as Esmeralda. In the film Never So Little (1959), her partner was Frank Sinatra, and in Solomon and Sheba (1959) - Yul Brynner. Many people remember her films.
"Fanfan tulip" "Provincial", "Bread, Love and Fantasy", "Roman", "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" and "Imperial Venus". And the role of Lisa Helena Fillini in the film “Come in September”, filmed in 1961, earned her a Golden Globe Award.
One of her last works in cinema was her participation in the film “Deathly Sin” (1973), after which she several times accepted the invitation to take part in television projects. In the same 1973, her photographs - portraits of Paul Newman, Salvador Dali, Fidel Castro, and the players of the German national team - were published in the pages of the magazine "Italia Mia". Gina Lollobrigida is a Knight of the Legion of Honor, and in 1999 she ran for the European Parliament for the Italian center-left Democratic Party.
She married very young, in 1949. Her husband was Slovenian psychiatrist Mirko Skofik, in which marriage she had a son. /