The name Gina Lollobrigida may not have resonated much in the modern world when word broke yesterday that the Italian actress/artist/tabloid star had died this week at the age of 95.
But that concatenation of syllables — Gee-na Lo-low-bridge-eeda, a miniature aria or barcarolle — once echoed around the globe as the embodiment of Italian womanhood, culture, sensuality and national identity.
Sure, there was lust attached: La Lollo, as she was known in the Italian media, had risen to fame in the late 1940s principally on the strength of her remarkable beauty — her fine features, her fiery eyes and, maybe most of all, her hourglass figure. She was a fetching and sexy comic actress, especially good at playing peasant and working-class girls of
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