(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 03 - Gina Lollobrigida turns 95.
The age of a lady should never be revealed, but for a myth, for a diva who has always had the courage to say things without veils and to live at least four lives, this birthday has a different value.
It's like a new medal pinned to your chest.
Luigia Lollobrigida was born in Subiaco on 4 July 1927, she is the daughter of wealthy bourgeois who were almost reduced to poverty by the bombing of her region.
She has an attitude, character, will to redeem and so she takes the opportunity of a beauty contest almost by chance to get noticed and fly to the 1947 edition of Miss Italy in Stresa where she arrives second but public and judges conquest.
Gina Lollobrigida became famous first abroad than in Italy and for many decades she was the only Italian adiva (together with Alida Valli) loved by American directors.
Back in Italy, she works with Pietro Germi ("La cittàsi defends") and with Carlo Lizzani ("Achtung banditi").
Her first personal success, however, is outside the borders: the French "Fanfan la Tulipe" with Gerard Philipe in 1952. she acts for ReneClair,
Alessandro Blasetti, Mario Monicelli and Steno, MarioSoldati and finally becomes a diva at home with the triumphant "Bread, love and imagination" by Luigi Comencini (1953).
Meanwhile, Gin has dozens of successes abroad.
Her career on the set is less long than her artistic life only because at the beginning of the 70s she decides that her passion takes her elsewhere: she leaves the film (to which she will return only twenty years later) to become a photographer .
But her thirst for life will take her still elsewhere: she works as a sculptor and travels the world with her exhibitions.
Her career on the set is less long than her artistic life only because at the beginning of the 1970s she decides that her passion takes her elsewhere: she leaves the cinema (to which she will return only twenty years later) to become a photographer.
But her thirst for life will take her still elsewhere: she works as a sculptor and travels the world with her exhibitions.
Her career on the set is less long than her artistic life only because at the beginning of the 1970s she decides that her passion takes her elsewhere: she leaves the cinema (to which she will return only twenty years later) to become a photographer.
But her thirst for life will take her still elsewhere: she works as a sculptor and travels the world with her exhibitions.
Her personal life was much more tormented: she married only once (in 1949 with the Slovenian doctor Milko Skofic from whom she had a son and from whom she divorced in 1971), after 90 years she revealed that she was raped very young, explaining that this pain had marked the whole his life.
In 2006 she announced she wanted to marry the Spaniard Javier Rigau much younger than her, but then the marriage was denied by both of them and in any case canceled by the Sacra Rota.
She still has an in-court battle with her son Andrea Milko.
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