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Post by yanceycravat on Jan 16, 2023 14:36:18 GMT
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Post by topbilled on Jan 16, 2023 15:16:59 GMT
Sad news. My favorite film of hers, which is certainly not her best but still I find it entertaining, is BUONA SERA MRS. CAMPBELL (1968). I also like COME SEPTEMBER (1961).
In the 1980s, she had a special guest role on Falcon Crest playing Jane Wyman's Italian cousin-- a role originally intended for Sophia Loren. When Loren backed out at the last minute, the part was handed to Lollobrigida who ended up snagging a Golden Globe nomination.
Rest in peace, beautiful lady.
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 16, 2023 16:47:45 GMT
I thought her holding her own opposite both Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster in TRAPEZE('56) was admirable.
Sepiatone
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jan 16, 2023 17:37:46 GMT
My favorite performance by Gina was in the farce film Beat The Devil, which was filmed in Italy. RIP Gina.
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Post by nipkowdisc on Jan 17, 2023 3:45:58 GMT
she was pretty good with Yul Brynner and George Sanders in Solomon and Sheba too. she was without a doubt one of the most gorgeous cinema actresses in history. Farewell great and beautiful lady.   |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Jan 17, 2023 22:41:37 GMT
I saw Trapeze as a kid and was a Gina Lollobrigida fan from that point on. One of my favorites of her roles, which I did not see as a kid but found later, was in Go Naked in the World (1961), in some ways a "sister" movie to Elizaberth Taylor's BUtterfield 8, another melodramatic and somewhat sordid tale of a "call girl" trying to build a new life. She looked great and proved that she could help carry a movie on her name. I also really like Woman of Straw (1964) with Sean Connery and Ralph Richardson.
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Post by Lucky Dan on Jan 17, 2023 22:53:58 GMT
Looks like she was quite active into her 90s. I have a few 8x10s of her in my collection. What a beauty she was.
May she have been in heaven a half hour before the devil knew she was dead.
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Post by Lucky Dan on Jan 17, 2023 23:13:46 GMT
Horst Buchholz making his move at the Berlinale, July 1958 |
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Post by vannorden on Jan 21, 2023 4:28:42 GMT
Very sad news. Gina Lollabrigida was the prototype of the maggiorata, the voluptuous woman that became prominent in post-WWII Italian cinema, especially in the Pink neorealism period. La Lollo, as she was affectionately known, embodied that role in such films as Pane, amore e fantasia (Bread, Love and Dreams, 1953) and Altri tempi - Zibaldone n. 1 (Times Gone By, 1952). But, in truth, she was more than a headstrong curvacious ideal: she was a splendid operatic singer, a consummate photographer, and a quiet philanthropist––overall, a remarkable and multi-talented woman. One can hear her voice in the biopic about Italian opera singer Lina Cavalieri, Beautiful But Dangerous (1956).
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Post by vannorden on Jan 21, 2023 4:29:57 GMT
I thought her holding her own opposite both Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster in TRAPEZE('56) was admirable. Sepiatone At one of the TCM Film Festivals, I made the grave mistake of missing her appearance for a screening of Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968) at the Chinese Multiplex. Foolishly, I did not look at my schedule and walked to the Egyptian instead. Now, it remains one of my biggest festival regrets. Indeed, RIP beautiful lady. |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Jan 21, 2023 16:30:44 GMT
I was looking for something else on YouTube but came across these. What a wonderful surprise. I've never seen her in a musical role but she had nothing to be ashamed of vocally. Quite the contrary.
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