Gina Lollobrigida: a life in pictures
Luigina Lollobrigida was born in Subiaco in Italy on 4 July 1927
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Lollobrigida wearing an evening dress, photographed in 1952 for a feature in Picture Post entitled Stars Bring Fashions From Italy
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Lollobrigida in the 1950s
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Lollobrigida leads donkeys carrying actors Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre along a street in Ravello, Italy in 1953, during a break from filming
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A wardrobe assistant helps Gina Lollobrigida get into her corset in 1954
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Sophia Loren, left, Yvonne de Carlo, centre, and Lollobrigida at the Ball of Stars at the Berlin film festival in 1954
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Pictured with Renato Tontini
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Lollobrigida in 1955
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Lollobrigida prepares to photograph Salvador Dali in his studio at the St Regis hotel in New York in 1955
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Lollobridgida won the David di Donatello award for best actress
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Hundreds of fans, mostly teenagers, halt Lollobrigida’s car as she arrives in Stuttgart, Germany in 1957.
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Pictured with Frank Sinatra
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Pictured with Yul Brynner
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Lollobrigida with her husband, physician Milko Skofic, and their son Andrea Milko on the set of Come September in 1960. The couple were married in 1949 and divorced in 1971. Andrea was born in 1957.
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Lollobrigida in Genova on 20 September 1960.
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Pictured with Rock Hudson
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Winner of the David di Donatello award for best actress for her portrayal of Napoleon’s sister, Pauline Bonaparte
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Pictured with Sean Connery
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Lollobrigida at her home on the ancient Appian Way on the outskirts of Rome in 1964. She was an accomplished photographer and a book of her work called Italia Mia was published in 1974
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Pictured with Alec Guinness
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Gina Lollobrigida on set
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Lollobrigida poses wearing a Pucci design in 1968
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Pictured with Lorenzo Lamas
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Lollobrigida on the red carpet at the opening of the Gina Lollobrigida Fotografa exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in 2009
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Lollobrigida admires her 90th birthday cake at the official Gina Lollobrigida Birthday Celebrations in Rome on 4 July 2017
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