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Gina Lollobrigida (1927-2023) was an Italian actress who appeared in numerous Hollywood movies in the 1950s and 1960s. Her IMDb page shows 67 acting credits from 1946-1997. This page will rank 15 Gina Lollobrigida movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Her many television appearances and her many movies not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings. Our page on “The Most Beautiful Woman in the World” was requested by Lupino and seconded by Pierre.
Gina Lollobrigida Movies Ranked In Chronological Order with Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.
Gina Lollobrigida Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Gina Lollobrigida film received.
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Possibly Interesting Facts About Gina Lollobrigida By Lupino
- Luigina Lollobrigida was born in Subiaco, Italy in 1927. She was the second of 4 sisters.
2. Gina Lollogridia won her first beauty contest in 1930 as Italy’s cutest/most beautiful toddler.
3. When Gina Lollogrigida’s father’s furniture factory was destroyed near the end of WWll, the family moved to Rome. In 1946 she started to study painting and sculpture on a scholarship.She also began to take opera lessons. To support herself, she took on modeling and became a regular in italian photonovellas.
4. By 1948, she had been discovered by Italian producer Mario Costa and worked as an extra. She also took part in various beauty contests and was not unsuccessful in their final results.
5. In 1952 her career took off with the female lead in Fanfan la Tulipe and Les Belles de la Nuit. From then on, the Italians proudly called her “Gina Nazionale”, the rest of Europe was happy with “La Lollo”.
6. From 1956 on, she worked on both sides of the Atlantic in starring roles. Even at the height of her Hollywood success, she returned to Europe for movies like Anna di Brooklyn and La Legge.
7. Between 1949 and 1971 Lollobrigida was married to a Yugoslavian doctor.They have one son, born in 1957. After her divorce, she began a totally new career as a professional photographer and became very successful- famous models were, amongst others, Paul Newman, Salvador Dali, Fidel Castro. She published 4 books as a photographer, one on her native Italy.
8. In 1990 La Lollo returned to her first love– at 60 plus years she started to take sculpture lessons. After a rough beginning, she had a successful exhibition in Paris in 2003. She dedicated this exhibition to Marilyn Monroe and…Liza Minnelli. She was invited to join the Academy of the Arts in Florence.
9. Her ongoing rivalvry with Sophia Loren kept both their names in the media for years.
10. Gina Lollobrigida has been very active doing charitable work– coming from a poor backround herself, she supported the likes of Ärzte ohne Grenzen (“Doctors Without Borders”), UNESCO or UNICEF.
10A. In 2007, at age 79, Gina wanted to marry again. Her companion for many years was 45 year old spanish Javier Rigau Rifols- and, as La Lollo stated after she refused to marry him on short notice, was nothing but a marriage dodger. The story became very wild, with Rifols marrying Lollo without her knowing and presence in Barcelona, trying to pass a veiled woman as Gina…I remember that incident from the coverage the “wedding that never was” got in the German media at the time- and not just in the yellow press.
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Hi Bruce,
The beautiful Gina Lollobrigida was very popular in France. In fact she was the most popular stranger actress. 62 millions of spectators have seen her movies.
Many big success in France and Europe aren’t in your list because their american box office are unknow.
We can quote Fanfan La Tulipe, with Gerard Philippe (6.7 millions of admissions in France), Le Belle Della Notte, Pane Amore E Gelosia (more than 11 millions admissions in Italy, colossal), La Donna Più Bella Del Mondo (more than 12 millions in Italy), etc. Of Course, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Solomon and Sheba and Trapeze were huge success too.
She was one of the most popular actress in Europe of all-time, may be more than Sophia Loren.
Hey Laurent…thanks for sharing this information. I toyed with including some of her non-Hollywood movies…but I could not figure how to use the admission stats that are listed in The Box Office Story. I wonder why she is barely remembered in the United States? Good feedback.
Gina Lollollollollo [Stop it Steve!] brigida. One of my dad’s favorites, back when the world was young. [Bob winces]
I’ve seen 5 of the 14 films listed. Her two standout movies in my humble opinion were Trapeze, starring Burt and Tony, and Solomon and Sheba starring Yul Brynner, Gina dances sexily during an outdoor orgy. God is not amused and sends the flood… oh wait that’s a different story. He destroys Sodom and Gomorrah… no that’s not the one either. Anyway God gets pretty angry with Solomon and destroys his temple.
Tyrone Power was originally cast as Solomon and tragically died of a heart attack during filming, supposedly he can still be spotted in some scenes of the movie.
I haven’t seen the top rated film here – Come September.
Nice work Bruce. Vote Up!
Hello Steve,
I like very much the beginning of your comment , it rémind me a song
It was something like Lolo lolo lolo lolo Lola and again and I think it was a song from the kinks in the 60, à Time where I was teen-ager (memory)
Good evening
Pierre
Hi Pierre, lo lo lo lo Lola was definitely The Kinks song Lola, one of their most popular songs. Bruce was just a baby when that song came out in 1970. Bob was wondering how his idol Mr. Mumbles had managed to fuff up his career so badly. I was sitting cross-legged on the rug in front of the TV watching Dr. Who on the BBC (which gave me nightmares, especially the Yeti on the London Underground). Ah memories… 🙂
Hey Steve…I have numerous Kinks CDs. Including their greatest hits…which of course has Lola. One of my favorite Kinks songs is called Summers Gone….there is Aline in that song that has a dad wondering where all the kids came from….that is my thought many times a day….lol.
STEVE
Chronologically you’re correct because in 1970 Mr M did seem to have made a b***s of his career as James Mason rather colourfully expressed it; but fast-forward to 1972 and WOW ! – even Bruce’s guru Joel Hirsch is said to have been sent rocking back on his heels!
Hey Bob, Steve and Pierre. Good information on Gina, the Kinks and Cummings….so many responses to this one comment….that I am sure that it will be confusing reading this one.
Finally watched the Cummings video….as always….quality job from Mr. Lensman…here is the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grnGry3iaaY&t=25s
Hey Pierre….I love the Kinks…I never knew that song was about Gina L. I will have to take that music to the car and really listen to the words of the song.
Hey Steve
1. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
2. Wow a tie with you, me and Flora at 5 Gina movies watched.
3. Trapeze is a movie that has somehow managed to escape me…but one day I will see that one.
4. I have gone frame by frame looking for Tyrone Power in Solomon and Sheba…but have never really seen him.
5. Come September is a decent rom com of the 1960s….she and the movie look gorgeous.
🙂
STEVE/BRUCE Come September along with Hudson’s trilogy with Doris surprised critics with Rock’s flare for comedy. Gina’s second with him Strange Bedfellows didn’t fare nearly as well with audiences or critics as Bruce’s own adjusted figure and rating reflect.
STEVE 1. Good to see Ronnie’s old King’s Row chum getting his own profile from you though apparently Robert C got that role only because Fox would not loan out Ty Power for it. Bob was not so lucky in 1954 when the Duke wanted him as his co-star in The High and the Mighty but was overruled by the director in favour of another Robert [Stack].
2 In his heyday Bob would often play straight-laced types with two of his stand-outs for me being his portrayal of the stalwart who supports a heroine who is the target of a homicidal husband in both Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder (1954) and the 1948 Sleep My Love which is actually the first movie I can remember seeing as a youngster. In 1964 when despite changing his stage name from Robert to Bob Cummings around 1955 his movie career was in decline he flipped and played the lecherous, sneaky blackmailer Dan Pierce in Laddie’s final movie The Carpetbaggers and I thought Bob was at his very best in that type of role
3 94.5% rating for this one with impressive POSTERS for Beach Party, One Night in the Tropics, The Lost Moment, The Accused, The Chase, and The Black Book. Exceptional standouts were though I thought the foreign language versions of the posters for Saboteur and Dial M for Murder. The STILLS that I admired were those of Cummings with Priscilla Lane in Saboteur, Bob with Milland and the Princess in Dial M for Murder, the closing one of the very young Robert and of course the beautiful colored lobby card*** of Bob romancing my Deanna.
4 You have once more beaten the old Work Horse to the punch in producing a brand new profile of an important star/supporting actor of yesteryear but we can never completely lock him out because he once more rates all of your Top 5 on this site’s pages of Cummings costars. The WH average for the 5 is approx. 81% and you are close behind with roughly a 79% average
***I refer to it as a “lobby” card because you as the graphics expert describe it so. However when such cards used to be plentiful at cinemas we never called them lobby cards because over her at lease they were rarely displayed in lobbies but always in the exterior showcases
Hey Bob…good breakdown on Robert Cummings…and Steve’s video on him…..I have yet to check that one out. As for Come September….it showed that Rock could great lots of screen chemistry…even if the lead actress was not Doris Day.
Hi Bob, thanks as ever for the review, rating, comparison and added info, always appreciated. Glad you liked the visual presentation.
I was pretty sure Bruce had a Bob Cummings page and I was going to point it out to you and… it’s not there. I was so certain. Must have been someone else. Bob Montgomery?
Anyway posting your review here is an odd place, does Bob have a connection to La Lollo? If Bruce does put together a Cummings page in the future can he find our mutterings? I dunno? Should we care? [Bob shrugs]
I’m coming to the end of the classic era Hollywood stars on my video channel, and will start on actors who first became popular on the big screen in the 1950s and 1960s, ‘The Widescreen Era’ from monday. But I may return to golden oldies I might have missed at some future date, we’ll see how it goes.
Bob Cummings like Angela Lansbury eventually became more popular on TV. I knew him best from the two Hitchcock movies Dial M for Murder and Saboteur.
From my files I see that there are no 10 out of 10 scorers for Cummings from my sources, not even for the master of suspence! [gasps] That’s harsh. There are two films scoring 9 and it still ain’t Hitch – Kings Row and The Devil and Miss Jones.
I always make the same silly mistake – Suspense not ‘Suspence’. 🙂
Hey Steve….you should know…..your mistakes are few and far between…..I more than makeup for that …..as I make tons of mistaxes all the time.
Hey Steve
1. Yep no Robert Cummings page yet….but he did make my Joel Hirschhorn book…..who barely put him over Brando with a 2.68 score of 4.00.
2. One day I am sure I will be doing a page on him.
3. So it is 11:15 AM my time….and I have no idea of the next UMR subject….normally I have somebody in mind….so confused…maybe will be next!
4. After lunch I will be headed to Top 10 Charts and checking out your Bobby video.
🙂
STEVE
1 Thanks for the counter feedback.
2 I meant to say that I was delighted you included in your Cummings selections the 1954 Lucky Me as it holds great nostalgic memories for me. I had never seen Doris Day before but when the local Picturedrome showed it and the 1953 Calamity Jane back to back I became hooked on Doris and I was just 12 at the time.
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
1 HI Bruce. I see that now that unlike the Scholar Gipsy you HAVE returned to “Oxford and your friends” once more you have again outflanked Steve in providing us with a new profile of one of the Greats of yesteryear. [Mind you Steve too has been so prolific of late that I had to cross-check his catalogue just now!]
2 “La Lollo” as she was nicknamed in her heyday was seen as Sophia Loren’s greatest rival for the tag “most important foreign actress to make it big in Hollywood” in those days. Bardot for example was largely limited to foreign-language films though when her star dimmed she was perhaps compensated by having Mr Mumbles as a regular visitor to her home in France in her later years.[eat your heart out Hirschhorn!]
3. Just as Sophia swept off their feet the likes of Legends Grant, Brando, Golden Holden, Chuck Heston and Peck, La Lollo shared star billing for a number of years with American screen giants such as Bogie, Lancaster, Flynn and Rock Hudson (twice) as your short but sweet table above demonstrates. [Until I saw your table I hadn’t realised that she also co-starred with Hope and had forgotten her Hunchback remake with Tony Quinn.]
4 Sophia’s fame seems to have endured longer that Gina’s but I never considered either of them particular big stand-alone box office attractions in the States despite their general popularity. I haven’t seen any photos of Gina recently but last time I saw Sophia she still looked very sexy despite her age and at a stretch might even have merited being addressed as “young woman”*** in the way the ageing Scott, McCrea, Broderick Crawford and Astaire were regularly called “young man ” Certainly Loren and La Lollop weren’t in the league of Liz, Day, Grable and dare I say it? Loy. However my preference was for Gina so I give this profile a hearty Lensman “Vote up!”
***Sophia and Bardot are now both 82.
Hello Bob,
There are not a lot of photos of Gina Lollobrigida to day but Every year she appears at le Bal de la Croix Rouge at Monaco.
The last photos I saw was last year or maybe two years ago.
She is always great looking with beautiful gowns and magnificent jewels.
I prefer Lollobrigida at Loren like most french people even if Loren got a very great succes in France too.
Bye
Pierre
PIERRE
Thanks for the info about Gina. What about Bardot – ever see any publicity about or /photos of her nowadays? I understand she’s very much still into animal welfare rights at the ripe old age of 82.
🙂
Hey Pierre…thanks for information on current sighting on Gina L.
Good evening BOB,
the latest photo I’ve seen is from 2016- Gina, dressed all in pink, a little bit of botox here, an extra layer of make up there- but a far cry from the unrecognizable ladies like Joan Rivers or Melanie Griffith. She still looks great, and considering her age even “young”- but the years have taken a lot of her beauty away, but little of her poise (?) and style.
HI LUPINO
1 That’s good to hear about Gina so the info is much appreciated. The last movie in which I ever saw Gina was the “spaghetti” western Bad Man’s River (1971) with Lee Van Cleef and she would have been around 44 in that, almost half her current age.
2 Sadly the once lovely Faye Dunaway has now joined the “unrecognizables” – big time.
Hey Bob…I agree with you on Faye Dunaway. I recently saw her in Bye Bye Man….and did not even know until I was checking out IMDb AFTER the movie and saw her name in the cast.
Hi Bob,
You are right , I dont understand why beautiful stars want to become unrecognisable….
Bardot is always like she was , Nature that why she is looking in the same way that Lollobrigida to day. You çan see her ….
There is from some photos or reportage from Time to Time..
And of course she always Fight for right animales….
Faye Dunaway she was so beautiful in Bonnie or Thomas Crown and Network
Do you know that she turned a french film after her big succes Bonnie.
It is called la “Maison sous les arbres “de Rene Clément , in english and I hope not to be wrong the “house under the trees”
One of my favorite films is the “three days of Condor”,and she was funny in “Supergirl”…
Bye
Pierre
HI PIERRE:
Thanks for all the extra information – much appreciated. Have a god weekend. BOB
and not just Miss Dunaway….oh the once so cute Meg Ryan…Linda Evans…and Melanie Griffith’s mother Tippi Hedren is well over 80 but so much better looking than Melanie nowadays.
Don’t know how well known Monroe wannabe Mamie van Doren is to readers of this site, but recently there was a video on youtube showing some minor event honoring her war efforts. I am pretty sure that vid was privately made without much if any glamourizing. This woman was 84 old at the time, but WOW!!! There must be some pretty good plastic surgeons around!
Lupino, you have to make up your mind! It’s either 84 or 84 YEARS old…o that missing edit button…
I agree that Hedren is prettier than Griffith…..too much work done on the daughter for my taste…..but boy did she look sexy when she first started making movies. I also agree about Meg Ryan….I barely recognize her. But in fairness….they would say the same thing about me if they knew me in the 1980s and saw me in 2017……time is undeafeted…lol.
Hey Lupino…good to know she is still a good looking lady….I think we all hope to be as lucky when we reach 90.
Hey Bob…thanks for all of this Gina trivia.
1. Steve has been very busy….but glad I got here first…lol.
2. I was unaware of her nicknames thanks for sharing that info…..not surprised that there is some Brando trivia attached to Gina.
3. I was shocked that I had so many of her movies already in the database…but she had some awesome co-stars….so 13 of the 14 were already ready to go.
4. Loren has a lasting legacy in the states…not thinking Gina gets mentioned too often n the states. Looking at the stats I would argue she was a much bigger success here than both Bardot and Loren.
Good feedback as always.
Happy 90th birthday to Gina Lollobrigida.
I recently rewatched Bueno Sera Mrs. Campbell.
I have seen 5 of her films. The other four in order of my preference are:
Trapeze
Come September
Beat The Devil
Never So Few
Hey Flora…thanks for checking this page out on her 90th birthday. I have also seen 5 of these movies. I have seen three of the ones you have seen (Never So Few, Beat the Devil & Come September). My other two are Woman of Straw and Solomon and Sheba. I do want to see Trapeze. 🙂
Gina was never on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. These are the only people on the 2016 list who have worked with her.
6 ROBERT DE NIRO Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
11 MARTIN SHEEN Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
40 HARRY DEAN STANTON Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
116 GERARD DEPARDIEU Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
116 GERARD DEPARDIEU XXL (1997)
142 ERNEST BORGNINE Go Naked in the World (1961)
187 DARYL HANNAH Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
289 SEAN CONNERY Woman of Straw (1964)
362 LEONARDO DICAPRIO Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
544 MAKO The Private Navy of Sgt. O’Farrell (1968)
555 TOMAS MILIAN Mare matto (1963)
571 WILLIAM SMITH Go Naked in the World (1961)
681 ANTHONY QUINN Notre-Dame de Paris (1956)
781 SHELLEY WINTERS Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
897 TONY CURTIS Trapeze (1956)
These are the people on the original list back in 2000 who have since fallen off but worked with Gina. Rank is for 2000.
45 BURT LANCASTER Trapeze (1956)
52 JAMES MASON Bad Man’s River (1971)
53 CHARLES BRONSON Never So Few (1959)
77 JOSE FERRER Cervantes (1967)
94 ROBERT MORLEY Beat the Devil (1954)
94 ROBERT MORLEY Hotel Paradiso (1966)
102 DAVID NIVEN King, Queen, Knave (1972)
124 JEANNE MOREAU Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
131 VITTORIO GASSMAN La donna più bella del mondo (1955)
131 VITTORIO GASSMAN Le piacevoli notti (1966)
149 TELLY SAVALAS Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
164 HARRY ANDREWS Solomon and Sheba (1959)
180 LEE VAN CLEEF Bad Man’s River (1971)
198 YUL BRYNNER Solomon and Sheba (1959)
210 MARCELLO MASTROIANNI A Tale of Five Cities (1951)
210 MARCELLO MASTROIANNI Io, io, io… e gli altri (1966)
210 MARCELLO MASTROIANNI La legge (1959)
210 MARCELLO MASTROIANNI Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
210 MARCELLO MASTROIANNI Vita da cani (1950)
218 MARIO ADORF King, Queen, Knave (1972)
220 RAF VALLONE Cuori senza frontiere (1950)
221 JOHN CRAWFORD Solomon and Sheba (1959)
222 BESS FLOWERS Go Naked in the World (1961)
234 AKIM TAMIROFF Hotel Paradiso (1966)
237 PETER LAWFORD Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
237 PETER LAWFORD Never So Few (1959)
255 ALEXANDER KNOX Woman of Straw (1964)
257 MICHEL PICCOLI Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
270 FRANK SINATRA Never So Few (1959)
291 LEE GRANT Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
323 GEORGE SANDERS Solomon and Sheba (1959)
348 ALAIN DELON Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
386 CATHERINE DENEUVE Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
392 ALEC GUINNESS Hotel Paradiso (1966)
419 ANOUK AIMEE Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
464 JOHN ALDERSON Strange Bedfellows (1965)
472 TERRY-THOMAS Strange Bedfellows (1965)
534 BOB HOPE The Private Navy of Sgt. O’Farrell (1968)
589 ROCK HUDSON Come September (1961)
589 ROCK HUDSON Strange Bedfellows (1965)
592 WHIT BISSELL Never So Few (1959)
612 JEFFREY HUNTER The Private Navy of Sgt. O’Farrell (1968)
621 RICHARD JOHNSON Never So Few (1959)
644 PHILIPPE LEROY Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
679 FRANCISCO RABAL Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
680 TONY FRANCIOSA Go Naked in the World (1961)
706 GABRIELE FERZETTI Un bellissimo novembre (1969)
712 FINLAY CURRIE Solomon and Sheba (1959)
731 JOHN HOYT Never So Few (1959)
765 LOUIS JOURDAN Cervantes (1967)
765 LOUIS JOURDAN Les Sultans (1966)
767 PHILIP AHN Never So Few (1959)
819 RALPH RICHARDSON Woman of Straw (1964)
873 PAUL MULLER Stuntman (1968)
874 DEAN JONES Never So Few (1959)
901 BERNARD LEE Beat the Devil (1954)
915 IVAN TRIESAULT Go Naked in the World (1961)
936 JOSE NIETO Solomon and Sheba (1959)
991 JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
991 JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO Mare matto (1963)
By my count Gina appeared with 18 Oscar winners in pictures, never repeating with anybody.
ALEC GUINNESS Hotel Paradiso (1966)
ANTHONY QUINN Notre-Dame de Paris (1956)
BURT LANCASTER Trapeze (1956)
DAVID NIVEN King, Queen, Knave (1972)
ERNEST BORGNINE Go Naked in the World (1961)
FRANK SINATRA Never So Few (1959)
GEORGE SANDERS Solomon and Sheba (1959)
GIG YOUNG Strange Bedfellows (1965)
HUMPHREY BOGART Beat the Devil (1954)
JENNIFER JONES Beat the Devil (1954)
JOSE FERRER Cervantes (1967)
KATY JURADO Trapeze (1956)
LEE GRANT Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
ROBERT DE NIRO Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
SEAN CONNERY Woman of Straw (1964)
SHELLEY WINTERS Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
YUL BRYNNER Solomon and Sheba (1959)
That 1995 film with Leonardo Dicaprio and a few other big names is a real film with a plot, not a documentary!!!
Hey Dan. Good stuff as always. 18 Oscar winners is pretty impressive especially with so few American movies. Never even heard of that Leonardo DiCaprio movie….thanks for putting some light on that movie. That movie has a pretty impressive cast for sure. I will have to check it out. I imagine Leo will keep her association with the Oracle list for a very long time. Thanks for sharing this information.