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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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ALTERNATIVE VERSIONS OF THE RELATIONSHIPS DESCRIBED IN PART 3 OF THESE POSTS
1/In an interview that I saw with Liz following Marlon’s death in 2004 she said that she had admired him as a young girl and “simply adored” him ever since she got to know him first-hand. There would never be a “another Brando” she concluded. Richard Burton’s famous diaries apparently record how the Burtons socialised with Brando in the 1960s, often aboard the Burton yacht; and on an occasion when Liz was incapacitated Marlon collected an acting award on her behalf. It was reported in 1972 that Liz invited Brando to a private dinner at her apartment and together they watched a copy of the just -released Godfather movie.
NOTE I have heard anything from Sophia that would clarify her opinions of Brando but certainly there was never “ganging up” on Marlon as allegedly threatened by Loren/Taylor in the 1960s gossip. Indeed the “ganging up” that did come was by the Hollywood status quo many ears later and in which Joel Hirschhorn seemingly joined.
2/In a documentary about Brando that I saw Glenn Ford was interviewed and his genuine praise for Marlon was the most extravagant that I have ever seen about an actor with the possible exception of Glenn talking about William Holden’s role in 1957’s Bridge on the River Kwai. Glenn and William were great personal friends but Alec Guinness was Glenn’s own favourite actor. However whilst Alec got the Oscar for Kwai, Glenn said that “Bill’s performance in the film is the most perfect I have ever seen from any actor on screen.”
3/In a biography of Sinatra the biographer recounted how he had quizzed the Great Crooner film star about how he approached the contrasting demands between musicals and films with serious dramatic content such as Man with the Golden Arm, about drug addiction, and The Joker is Wild, a part musical in which gangsters cut Frankie’s throat and Sinatra is incarcerated in prison. Frank apparently replied to the biographer that he found straight musicals like High Society no problem but was often in two minds about how to approach a dramatic role. “Usually I work it out myself but if I am stuck for too long I tend to take a leaf out of Marron Brando’s acting book.” [I wonder how Frankie would have approached the making of a ‘Christmas’ film!!]
BRANDO MALICIOUS GOSSIP ITEMS
1/In 1967 Brando made films with both Sophia Loren and Liz Taylor and in the glut of media stories about Loren/La Lollo that Bruce refers to in Interesting Fact 9 above a whole article was devoted to both Liz and Sophia running across each other at a function and complaining about how “awful” Brando was to work with. The two women were said in the article to have agreed that if the opportunity arose again they would “gang up” on Big Bad Marlon.
2/A biographer of Glenn Ford claimed that when they made Teahouse of the August moon together in 1955/56 Glenn and Marlon detested each other and were always quarrelling.
3/On page 57 of his 1983 book Rating the Movie Stars Joel Hirschhorn -remember him?- states that when they were making Guys and Dolls together in 1955 Frank Sinatra DERISORILY referred to Brando as “Mumbles” implying great disrespect by Frank of Marlon.
However later accounts of Marlon’s relationships with those 3 Legends emerged which suggest that they were at the very least exaggerated if they were not out and out figments of someone’s imagination or that they displayed a propensity to spread negative stories without evidence. See Part 4.
Item 9 of Possibly Interesting facts above states that “Her [Gina’s]ongoing rivalry with Sophia Loren kept both their names in the media for years.”
Work Horse is correct as I vividly recall all that hype. As people used to boast in the 1960s “I was there!” However a lot of stuff printed about movie stars and celebs can be (1) Accurate (2) exaggerated or (3) out and out make-believe.
Therefore whist entertainment gossip is undoubtedly fun to read one is well advised to always bear in mind Burt Lancaster’s opening words in 1952’s part-fantasy seafaring yarn The Crimson Pirate. “Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see!”
In part 3 I have reproduced three pieces of malicious gossip about Marlon Brando that are certainly open to question.
The gorgeous and beautiful Gina Lollobrigida was the fantasy women of millions of men around the world for decades. Like her compatriot Sophia Loren, she survived the horrors of World War II, poverty, and hunger, and through determination and talent became an international film star. Gina was a renaissance woman: actress, sculptress, photographer, and philanthropist.
She could do dramas, as well as comedies. Her memorable films include the two films with French icon Gerard Phillipe; Beat the Devil (her first U.S. film) with Bogart; Crossed Swords with Errol Flynn; Trapeze with Lancaster and Tony Curtis; the sparkling comedies Come September and Strange Bedfellows with Rock Hudson; Solomon and Sheba with Yul Brynner; The Hunchback of Notre Dame with Anthony Quinn, among others.
Rest in Peace Gina and thank you for bringing laughter, beauty, and wonder to our lives!
I have seen four of Gina’s films. Those films are BEAT THE DEVIL, COME SPETEMBER, STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, and BUONA SERA, MRS. CAMPBELL. I liked her performances in all of those films. Rest In Peace, Gina Lollabrigida.
One of the films is COME SEPTEMBER. I mistakenly wrote COME SPETEMBER. Sorry for the confusion. Guess the editing device was too fast for me this time around.