Gina Lollobrigida was linked to Juan Domingo Perón.
There are vintage photos
.
The actress
aboard the presidential yacht "Tequara", strolling through the Tigre Delta, Buenos Aires 1954,
during the visit that the diva made that year to be present at the
Mar del Plata Film Festival
.
And
the nude photo of Gina that Perón took with a special X-ray camera
?
Myth or Reality?
It would have been the invention of the century.
Lollobrigida's was
one of the most impressive visits that occurred during that presidency of Perón
.
According to comments at the time, in the Quinta de Olivos there was
a camera that was used to take photos under the actress's skirt
.
Surely they have been "speculations" of Perón's enemies, she wrote to herself.
And, yes,
the crack is not from now
.
The great Italian diva and Juan Domingo Perón, in other of the photos that are now circulating on the Internet.
Photos Pinelides Aristóbulo Fusco
The indiscreet camera was the subject of study for some "black book" of Peronism.
Zoom
magazine
knew how to focus on the subject.
reconstruction of the facts
How was the thing?
The arrival of the Italian diva revolutionized the standards of international visits
.
Aware of the event, it seems that the General was not thinking of wasting the opportunity to meet her.
"Gina Lollobrigida was the stunning Italian actress that, at the end of the festival,
Perón took to the Quinta de Olivos to show her how the girls from the UES played basketball in black bloomers
and, incidentally, take pictures of her with the X-ray camera," she says. Teodoro Boot in the
Memoirs of a Peronist Child
.
Boot: very particular writer, Peronist, humorist, historian.
With the dystopian-futuristic camera,
Lollobrigida would appear as God brought her into the world, but much more developed
.
"That was the photo that my aunt and my old woman talked about in a low voice in the patio, while I and the vast majority of Argentines wondered
what the hell an X-ray camera would be, " he wrote in
Zoom
magazine
.
The rumor spread from mouth to mouth.
The social networks of the time were like that.
Today, the tole-tole would have been a scandal
.
Gina Lollobrigida in November '54, in Argentina.
A luxurious visit.
For a moment, the Peronist boy and his neighbors wondered, between astonishment and horror, if Perón was also naked in the famous photo.
No, they said: the General was invulnerable to X-rays.
The urban and foreign legend spoke of a certain photographic camera
"capable of making textiles invisible and collecting clear and tasty images of hidden meat"
.
If an X-ray machine was capable of penetrating to the bone, why not think of a machine that would go through silk and other fabrics?
What else was said?
That the unusual undressing photo machine was used exclusively by the General.
For internal consumption only.
That a secret model had been made for Perón to strut around with "the most beautiful woman in the world," as the media at the time mentioned her.
There were the fans of Gina and those of Sofía Loren
.
Some
overzealous "Lorenistas"
had the nerve to nickname Gina
"la Lollofrígida"
.
The legend - it goes without saying - turned out to be partially false
.
Diving a little on the Internet, it was possible to find out that Perón was a true fan of black and white photography.
Gina, guest of honor at the Mar del Plata Film Festival.
It is also true that Lollobrigida -in this case there are archive images- visited our country in November 1954, at the age of 29, to participate in the Mar de Plata Film Festival.
As for the nudity attributed to a magical and curious camera,
it was learned that the image was fake, false, doctored and surely manipulated in the laboratories
by a Kaos agent or by the typical propagandism undertaken against the government of the day.
The recognizable face of the diva was cropped from another photo
and in a vintage-style
copy paste
would have used the physical goodness of some clandestine pornography publication.
Thus, the busty body of the deceitful Gina was part of the reproduction of erotic Nordic magazines that smuggled into the country.
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