Gina Lollobrigida
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Luigina "Gina" Lollobrigida (born July 4, 1927 in Subiaco ) is an Italian actress , photographer and sculptor . Since the mid-1940s she has appeared in seventy film and television productions, including both comedies and dramas. It became the sex symbol of Italian cinema in the period after the Second World War . The actress became known to an international audience through the historical film Fanfan, der Husar (1952). By the end of the 1960s, she also appeared in international cinema productions (including Trapez , The Hunchback of Notre Dame , Stranger Bettgesellen , Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell ). In 1961 Lollobrigida was named the most popular international actress at the Golden Globe Awards . In addition, she won Italy's most important film prizes several times with the Nastro d'Argento and David di Donatello and was awarded six Bambis in Germany . From the 1970s she became increasingly active as a photographer and sculptor and only occasionally appeared as an actress.
Life
childhood and education
Gina Lollobrigida was born in 1927 (1928 or 1929 according to other information) as the second oldest of four daughters of the furniture manufacturer Giovanni Mercuri Lollobrigida and his wife Giuseppina. She received private lessons in singing, dance, drawing and language lessons. After her father's factory was destroyed towards the end of the Second World War, Gina Lollobrigida moved with her family to Rome , where she continued to live in modest circumstances.
In 1945 Lollobrigida got a role in Eduardo Scarpetta's comedy Santarellina in the Teatro della Concordia of Monte Castello di Vibio , the smallest theater all'italiana in the world. In 1946, thanks to a scholarship, she began studying sculpture and painting at the Liceo Artistico in Rome. She also trained as an opera singer and appeared as the model "Gina Loris" in Italian photo novels. A year later she was discovered on the street by the film producer Mario Costa and began to take on extras in the film. The first leading roles followed soon after, allegedly by the billionaire Howard Hughes . But Lollobrigida is said to have turned down a film contract with him. Further popularity brought her participation in various beauty pageants. At the age of three she had already been named “Italy's most beautiful toddler”, followed by second place in the “Miss Roma” competition in 1947 and third place in the “ Miss Italia ” election .
Rise to international film star
At the beginning of the 1950s, Lollobrigida became known to a wide international audience alongside Gérard Philipe with Fanfan, Die Hussar and Die Schönen der Nacht (both 1952), even without Hughes. Her collaboration with Luigi Comencini , who entrusted her with the popular role of “La Bersagliera” in his love comedies Love, Bread and Fantasy (1953) and Love, Bread and Jealousy (1954), each with Vittorio De Sica brought her further popularity in Italy as a screen partner.
She demonstrated her talent as a singer in 1955 in the film The Most Beautiful Woman in the World . In the novel adaptation The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) she played the role of Esmeralda with success on the side of Anthony Quinn . She then made films in a wide variety of genres, from monumental films such as Salomon and the Queen of Sheba (1959) with Yul Brynner to comedies such as Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968) with Peter Lawford , Telly Savalas and Phil Silvers . Despite further successes such as Stranger Bettgesellen (1965) with Rock Hudson , she was increasingly overshadowed by her younger and more successful compatriot Sophia Loren . Loren's husband, the successful film producer Carlo Ponti , praised Lollobrigida's beauty in retrospect, but classified her only as a "mediocre" actress.
Temporary withdrawal from the film business
In the early 1970s, Lollobrigida temporarily said goodbye to the screen. Her fans, who called the actress “Gina nazionale” or “La Lollo” for short, now presented herself primarily as a photographer. Among other things, she portrayed well-known personalities such as fellow actors Paul Newman , Fidel Castro , Salvador Dalí and Henry Kissinger . In 1975 she made the short documentary Ritratto di Fidel with Castro . Lollobrigida also worked as a fashion photographer for Vogue magazine and published four illustrated books, including about her home country Italy ( La mia Italia , 1972) and the Philippines ( Manila and The Philippines , 1979). She also got involved with charities such as Doctors Without Borders , UNESCO and UNICEF .
In 1981 she served as the jury president at the Canadian World Film Festival . In early 1985 she came to New York Broadway for the first time to play the part of Anna Magnani in a revival of Tennessee Williams ' The Tattooed Rose . Two weeks before the premiere, however, the piece was discontinued due to the death of the producer, which Lollobrigida regretted decades later.
Scandal at the Berlin Film Festival
In 1986 Lollobrigida was the jury president of the Berlinale . At the end of the festival there was an uproar when she publicly announced at the award ceremony that she had voted against the Golden Bear winner Stammheim , which she considered a "disgusting" film. Reinhard Hauff's directorial work was a reconstruction of the Stammheim trial against the RAF terrorists Ulrike Meinhof , Andreas Baader , Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe and their deaths. The short jury decision, which came about with six to five votes for the German entry (the Italian film Die Messe ist aus by Nanni Moretti won the second prize with three votes ), described Lollobrigida as "an absolutely absurd vote" and spoke of one “Political decision” that was “prefabricated” . The festival management around Moritz de Hadeln accused her of “anti-democratic behavior” .
Last acting offers, work as a sculptor and political ambitions
Sporadically Lollobrigida returned to acting, including in 1984 in the role of Francesca Gioberti for some episodes of the American television series Falcon Crest , which earned her a Golden Globe nomination. 1986 followed a guest role in the two-part Christmas special of the series Love Boat . In 1988 Lollobrigida was seen as the mother of a prostitute in Giuseppe Patroni Griffi's television production La romana - in 1954 she played the title role of the beautiful girl drifting into prostitution in the Moravia adaptation Die joudlose Strasse , directed by Luigi Zampa . In her last film appearance so far, the French cinema production XXL by Ariel Zeitoun , she appeared on the side of Gérard Depardieu in 1997 .
From 1990 Lollobrigida began taking lessons from the Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzù . With a huge bronze sculpture in the shape of an eagle, which was exhibited in the Italian pavilion, she was represented at the 1992 World Exhibition in Seville . Although she received heavy criticism for her "flying putti", Lollobrigida was accepted as a member of the Florence Art Academy .
In 1999 she stood as a candidate for Romano Prodi's electoral alliance for the European Parliament , but clearly failed to make it. A year later, she promoted the introduction of the euro in Germany, among others .
In the fall of 2003, Lollobrigida organized her first comprehensive retrospective as a sculptor in Paris, because it was there that her first successful film, Fanfan, The Husar, had been shot. 44 bronze and woodworks were shown in the Hotel De La Monnaie, which she claims to have created over a period of ten years. These included works that were inspired by her film characters from Trapeze , The Hunchback of Notre Dame , Solomon and the Queen of Sheba , Imperial Venus or Pinocchio , as well as works on Marilyn Monroe and Liza Minnelli , to whom she dedicated her exhibition. "I like it when my work is expressive and emotional, it means that it is alive," says Lollobrigida. Already in June 2003 she had a large part of her works exhibited in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow , which Nikita Michalkow , Yevgeny Evtushenko and Ilya Glasunow had visited and promoted. At the same time she published the book Gina Lollobrigida, my world about her work as an artist. She also founded a chain of stores called Gina to sell her sculptures .
In February 2018, Lollobrigida was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .
Private
Lollobrigida lives in Rome . From 1949 until the divorce in 1971, the artist, who describes herself as “stubborn and stubborn, enthusiastic and impulsive”, was married to the Yugoslav (Slovenian) doctor Milko Škofič. He gave up his job to become their manager. The marriage with Škofič had a son (* 1957).
On January 27, 2007, the canceled wedding with her long-time, 34 years younger Spanish partner, Javier Rigau Rifols, caused a sensation in the tabloid press and was later investigated for fraud allegations.
After the divorce, Rigau announced in an interview that he and the diva had already met regularly in the 1970s and thus contradicted the version of his ex-wife, which stated that they first met as 2006, then 1982. It is scandalous that Rigau, who met Lollobrigida for the first time in Monaco in the mid-1970s, was only 15 years old at the time. Allegedly, the diva always traveled to the family home, which was in the mountains, 30 kilometers away from Barcelona. Except for the service staff, only a few people knew about the diva's (initially only sexual) relationship with the boy and kept this a secret for a long time in order to protect Lollobrigida from bad press. The former affair did not have any criminal consequences, as sexual relations with minors were not yet prosecuted in Spain in the 1970s.
Filmography (selection)
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Photo books as a photographer
- 1972: La mia Italia (German: My Italy (with an introduction by Alberto Moravia, translated by E.-A. Nicklas). Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1978 DNB 780448162 ).
- 1979: Manila or The Philippines
- 1984: Il segreto delle rose
- 1993: Magica innocenza
Awards
Honors
- 1954: Nastro d'Argento for love, bread and fantasy ( best leading actress )
- 1956: Bambi for The Most Beautiful Woman in the World (Best Actress - International)
- 1956: David di Donatello for The Most Beautiful Woman in the World (Best Actress)
- 1957: Bambi for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Best Actress - International)
- 1957: Silver Bravo Otto
- 1958: Bambi for Trapeze (Best Actress - International)
- 1959: Bambi for Where the Hot Wind blows (Best Actress - International)
- 1961: Henrietta Award of the Golden Globe Award (Most Popular International Actress)
- 1963: David di Donatello for Imperial Venus (Best Actress)
- 1963: Nastro d'Argento for Imperial Venus (Best Actress)
- 1969: David di Donatello for Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (best actress)
- 1985: French Officer's Cross for Art and Science
- 1986: Berlinale camera of the Berlin International Film Festival
- 1986: Golden plaque of the city of Rome at the David di Donatello awards
Rose Gina Lollobrigida in the Bagatelle rose garden , Paris - 1987: Jubilee Bambi (as representative of the 1960s)
- 1987: Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 1988: Targa d'Oro Europea
- 1989: Telegatto
- 1990: Special Bambi
- 1992: Premio Grolla d'oro
- 1993: Knight's Cross of the French Legion of Honor
- 1995: Special Prize of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (special contribution to world cinema)
- 1996: Anniversary Prize at the David di Donatello Awards (40th anniversary award)
- 1996: “Actor's Mission Award” from the Art Film Festival
- 1997: Joseph Plateau Prize for her life's work
- 1997: Premio Flaiano for her life's work
- 2001: Taormina Arte Award of the Taormina International Film Festival
- 2006: Jubilee award at the David di Donatello awards ceremony (50th award anniversary)
- 2008: Lifetime Achievement Award of the Rome Film Festival
Nominations
- 1955: Nomination for the British Film Academy Award for Love, Bread and Imagination ( Best Foreign Actress )
- 1969: Golden Globe nomination for Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell ( Best Actress - Comedy or Musical )
- 1985: Golden Globe nomination for Falcon Crest ( Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie )
literature
Publications (selection)
- Gina Lollobrigida: Italia mia. Photography di Gina Lollobrigida . Presentazione di Alberto Moravia. Salani, Firenze 1972, OCLC 7104492 . (German: Hanns Reich , Düsseldorf 1973, OCLC 836415272 ; My Italy: an illustrated book , Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1978, OCLC 258397500 )
- Gina Lollobrigida: My world: Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Venice Lido, Open 2003 Arte e Cinema, Paris, Musée de la Monnaie: Bronze Sculptures, Marble Sculptures, Cinema, Drawings, Biography / Il mio mondo: sculture in bronzo , sculture in marmo, disegni, cinema, biografia . Il Cigno, Roma 2003, ISBN 88-7831-145-6 (English and Italian editions).
Secondary literature
- Luis Canales: Imperial Gina: the strictly unauthorized biography of Gina Lollobrigida. Branden Pub. Co., Brookline Village, Boston 1990, ISBN 0-8283-1932-4 .
- Mauricio Ponzi, Alvin H. Marill: The films of Gina Lollobrigida. Citadel Press, Secaucus, NJ 1982, ISBN 0-8065-1093-5 .
Web links
- Gina Lollobrigida's triumph over stupidity - portrait by Kai Luehrs-Kaiser at welt.de, July 4, 2007
- Biography at prisma.de
- Gina Lollobrigida in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Gina Lollobrigida in the catalog of the German National Library
- Always the hype about »La Lollo« - For the 90th birthday of actress Gina Lollobrigida on July 4th 2017 in the title culture magazine
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography in the All Movie Guide (accessed July 1, 2012)
- ↑ Luis Canales: Imperial Gina: the strictly unauthorized biography of Gina Lollobrigida. Branden Pub. Co., Brookline Village, Boston 1990, ISBN 0-8283-1932-4 , p. 30.
- ↑ a b Gina Lollobrigida. In: World who's who: Europa biographical reference. (Online database). Routledge, London 2002.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Gina Lollobrigida. In: International Biographical Archive. 20/2002 from May 6, 2002, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 02/2007 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
- ↑ Storie, vicende e protagonisti / stories, events and main characters . ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. History of the Teatro della Concordia on the official website of this theater, 2011.
- ↑ Kai Luehrs-Kaiser: Let pheasants be around me. In: The world . No. 153, July 4, 2007, p. 28.
- ↑ a b dpa : Gina Lollobrigida is 60. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. July 4, 1987, p. 7.
- ↑ AP : Carlo Ponti, film producer and husband of Sophia Loren, celebrates 90th birthday . December 10, 2012 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
- ↑ a b c The diva and the soccer players. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. No. 190, August 17, 2000, p. 55.
- ^ William C. Trott ( UPI ), January 23, 1985 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
- ↑ a b ANSA English Media Service: Gina Lollobrigida open first complete sculpture exhibition . October 9, 2003 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
- ^ Chronicle - The highlights of the Berlinale. In: Spiegel online. February 7, 2000.
- ^ History of the Berlinale. ( Memento from April 13, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) on: arte.tv
- ↑ dpa : Bitter aftertaste: Gina Lollobrigida's attacks. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 6, 1986, p. 25.
- ↑ Wedding: Gina Lollobrigida (79) marries Spaniards (45). In: Hamburger Abendblatt . No. 245, October 20, 2006, p. 32.
- ↑ At the age of 90: Gina Lollobrigida gets Hollywood star. In: Zeit Online. February 2, 2018, accessed March 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Biography at whoswho.de (accessed on July 1, 2012).
- ^ M. Schlappner: "Il piu bello torso d'Italia": Gina Lollobrigida is seventy. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 4, 1997, p. 46.
- ↑ Gina Lollobrigida's wedding bursts on January 27, 2007. In: WDR2 deadline. January 27, 2007.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lollobrigida, Gina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lollobrigida, Luigina (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actress, photographer and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Subiaco , Lazio, Italy |