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3	Luigina "Gina" Lollobrigida (July 4, 1927 - January 16, 2023) was an UsefulNotes/{{Ital\|y}}ian actress.
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5	"La Lollo" was active in films from the late 1940s through to the early 1970s. She earned her fame in Italian cinema (her breakthrough role was in ''Bread, Love and Dreams'' in 1953) before beginning to get roles in American films in the late 1950s.
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7	She later mostly retired from filmmaking, but took up a second career as a photographer and a humanitarian activist. She ran (unsuccessfully) for the [[UsefulNotes/TheEuropeanUnion European Parliament]] once. She was overshadowed by Creator/SophiaLoren (a FriendlyRival in RealLife) in public notice, but still had a considerable following, sometimes being referred to as the world's most beautiful woman (the alternative title of one of her films).
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9	Some journalists and biographers (most notably Luis Canales in his 1990 book ''Imperial Gina'') mention [[ThirdPersonPerson her habit of referring to herself in the third person]].
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11	She passed away at age 95 on January 16, 2023.
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13	!!Films with pages on TV Tropes:
14	* ''Film/FanfanLaTulipe'' (1952)
15	* ''Film/BeatTheDevil'' (1953)
16	* ''Film/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|1956}}'' (1956)
17	* ''Film/{{Trapeze}}'' (1956)
18	* ''Film/NeverSoFew'' (1959)
19	* ''Film/SolomonAndSheba'' (1959)
20	* ''Film/GoNakedInTheWorld'' (1961)
21	* ''Film/{{Strange Bedfellows\|1965}}'' (1965)
22	* ''Film/DeathLaidAnEgg'' (1968)
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24	!! This actress's work provides examples of:
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28	* TheFifties: The period of Gina's greatest success as an actress, though her best-known American films (''Come September'' and ''Strange Bedfellows'') were made in the early 1960s.
29	* BeautyContest: Gina first came to significant public notice in 1947, when she entered the Miss Italy beauty pageant and won 3rd place. The 1st- and 2nd-place winners were, respectively, Lucia Bose and Gianna Maria Canale, who also became actresses; in fact,the Miss Italy pageants in the late 1940s and early 1950s turned out to be a fertile field for the discovery of stars and starlets for the burgeoning Italian film industry.
30	* TheEdwardianEra: The setting of her movies ''La Donna 'Piu Bella Del Mondo'' (''Beautiful But Dangerous'') and ''Hotel Paradiso''.
31	* ElectiveBrokenLanguage: An unusual example. When she came to the United States, she actively started to learn English, but the movie studios and her co-star Creator/HumphreyBogart liked her broken English and thick Italian accent so much that they advised her not to learn "too much" of it. [[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/movies/26dona.html To the end of her life, she still mangled her English grammar and spoke with a strong accent]] in spite of having starred in American movies for several decades -- but this probably ''helped'' her movie career instead of hindering it.
32	* HighClassGloves: In common with many other female celebrities of TheFifties, La Lollo frequently wore long gloves with her formal gowns and dresses in public appearances. Many of her 1950s and early 1960s movies, especially ''La Donna 'Piu Bella Del Mondo'' (''Beautiful But Dangerous'', aka ''The World's Most Beautiful Woman''), feature scenes in which she's wearing long gloves.
33	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: [[invoked]] A number of her movies, such as ''La Donna Piu' Bella del Mondo'' (''Beautiful But Dangerous'', aka ''The World's Most Beautiful Woman'', a biopic of [[TheEdwardianEra Edwardian Era]] opera diva Lina Cavalieri), have never been officially released in the United States on VHS or DVD.
34	* MsFanservice: Most of her movies during her time as an international star, especially ''La Donna 'Piu Bella Del Mondo'' (she has a lengthy StockingFiller scene as a music-hall singer early on), ''Anna di Brooklyn'' (''Fast and Sexy'') (the most famous image from the movie shows her in a very skimpy one-piece black lace outfit), and ''Trapeze'' (arguably one of the main purposes of the movie is to show La Lollo in a revealing circus-performer costume).
35	* OfCorsetsSexy: Her 1950s movie, ''La Donna 'Piu Bella Del Mondo'' (''Beautiful But Dangerous'') shows Gina snugly corseted in several scenes, most strikingly during a [[SwordFight fencing duel]] with a professional rival.
36	* PrefersGoingBarefoot: She played a number of charismatic barefoot characters, including Esmeralda in ''Film/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|1956}}'' (1956), Maria De Ritis in ''Bread, Love and Dreams'' (1953), Marietta from ''The Law'' (1959), and Ippolita from ''La bellezza di Ippolita'' (1962). Besides, Gina may be this herself: she was the ''only'' actress to portray Esmeralda, who was shod in the original novel, in bare feet (perhaps it even was her own idea), felt very comfortable walking around barefoot during the filming, and enjoyed posing to the photographers like that.
37	* SoapOpera: Toward the end of her active career as an actress, Gina worked for a while on the U.S. nighttime soap ''Series/FalconCrest''.

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