Actress Gina Lollobrigida, one of the brightest lights of European cinema in the ’50s and ’60s, passed away on March 21 at the age of 95, know her husband, son and net worth
Her filmography includes titles like Beat the Devil and The Hunchback of Notre Dame as well as the more obscure Crossed Swords.
She shared screen time with legends including Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Rock Hudson, and Errol Flynn. After the ’60s, she focused on photography and politics, and her career eventually died out. Bogart once remarked that she “made Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple,” and her nickname, La Lollo, stuck.
Actress Gina Lollobrigida cause of death, age, husband, son, net worth, images
Bugs me when an actress dies & people only post young pictures. I want to be like Gina Lollobrigida, not because she was dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world" in the '50s, but because she ran for the Italian senate at 95. Rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/qhsuOkDXXt
— Kelly Robinson's Brain in a Jar (@KellyRobinsonHQ) January 16, 2023
Nos deja una gran leyenda del cine italiano.
Riposa in pace #GinaLollobrigida pic.twitter.com/1wd8Rh4mCw— Antonio Banderas (@antoniobanderas) January 16, 2023
Howard Hughes, the movie billionaire, repeatedly proposed to her. Off-screen, she had fun competing with fellow Italian actress Sophia Loren. According to a statement, Loren was “extremely startled and devastated” by the loss of her former adversary.
Who was Gina Lollobrigida? Early life, career and much more!
Gina Lollobrigida was born on July 4th, 1927. She was the daughter of a furniture maker, spent her teenage years dodging bombing raids before enrolling in the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome to study sculpture. A talent scout had invited her to try out for Cinecitta, which was the biggest film studio in Europe at the time and the bustling “Hollywood on the Tiber” in Italy.
She competed in the 1947 edition of Miss Italia, a beauty contest that has launched the careers of many famous people, and placed third. Milko Skofic, a physician from Slovenia, became her husband two years later.Skofic got his new, still-unfamous wife into the bikini for some marketing photographs. The wealthiest man on the planet woke up in Hollywood, 6,000 miles away.
Gina Lollobrigida died in a Rome after being hospitalised for some time but an official cause of death isn’t known yet. She is survived by her son, Milko, and grandson, Dimitri. In 1949, Lollobrigida married a Slovenian physician, her ex-husband Milko Škofič and their only child, Andrea Milko (Milko Škofič, Jr.), was born on 28 July 1957.
Gina Lollobrigida’s Net Worth
When she passed away, Gina was said to have been worth $45 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. She began her career as a model and beauty pageant hopeful before landing her first credited role in 1946. However, it wasn’t until her performance in the 1953 film Bread, Love, and Dreams (Pane, Amore, and Fantasia) that she became a sought-after leading lady.
Beat The Devils, starring Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones, was the film that broke her into the English-speaking market. Errol Flynn, Tony Curtis, and Frank Sinatra were just a few of the stars that collaborated with Gina during the course of her five-decade career.
Just a few of the films she has worked on include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Come September, and Solomon and Sheba. Gina was honoured with a total of nine accolades, including three David di Donatellos, two Nastro d’Argentos, and six Bambis. Three nominations later, in 1961, she finally won a Golden Globe for her work.
Gina Lollobrigida’s role in Italian politics
The actor was shown to be talented behind the camera as well, and she began her career as a photojournalist towards the tail end of the 1970s. In 1973, she released a book titled Italia Mia, with portraits of celebrities like Audrey Hepburn and Ella Fitzgerald.
She even managed to obtain an interview with Communist Cuba’s leader Fidel Castro. Gina tried her hand at politics in 1999. Two years after she finished filming her last film. But she was defeated in her bid for the Italian Democrats’ nomination. The move made her the third Italian actress to enter politics.
Gina, then 95 years old and “bore up with quarrelling politicians,” ran for the Senate for the Sovereign. And Popular Italy party (ISP) in August of 2022. Only 1% of the vote was cast for her, hence she was soundly defeated.
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