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WHAT’S LIFE without glamour?… Pretty boring. For some, glamour is winged eyeliner and a black plunging strapless dress, for others, glamour is an afternoon siesta on a striped sunbed, with Dean Martin crooning softly in your ear. For others, glamour transcends the physical form; it’s an attitude, a mindset, an energy that enters a room before you d...

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The Venice Film Festival will pay tribute to late Italian icon Gina Lollobrigida, who died in January, with a pre-opening event featuring a double bill of freshly restored works in which she stars. The Lido’s annual pre-opening event on Aug. 29 will feature a 27-minute short by Orson Welles titled “Portrait of Gina.” In 1968, Welles interviewed Lol...

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Italy’s Cineteca di Bologna film archives have unearthed a small treasure trove of shorts documenting the early career of late icon Gina Lollobrigida, who was hailed as a major European sex symbol of the post-World War II era. The prominent archives, known globally as a prime film preservation entity, have found and restored three vintage clips dat...

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Gina Lollobrigida’s death on January 16, 2023, inspired us to look back and reflect on an extraordinary era of Italian cinema that spans the neorealism of the 1940s to the early 1970s. During that time, numerous directors with different styles brought Italy to life on the big screen, and the actresses became as well-known around the world as any Ho...

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When I watch them today, my movies seem even better.” This is what Gina Lollobrigida used to say, not with self-complacency but because there is truth in it. Those movies shaped our collective imagination. If we watch them, if we look at those actors, directors, stories, at those incredibly beautiful actresses who made the history of cinema, photog...

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Sophia Loren on Monday led tributes to Gina Lollobrigida, long her rival for the title of Italy's sexiest screen bombshell export, who has died at the age of 95. "I'm deeply shaken and saddened, and above all incredulous at what has happened," said Loren, 88, after the passing of her fellow diva and legend. Talking to ANSA, Loren said that for the...

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Screen legend Gina Lollobrigida, the former sex symbol once billed as the world's most beautiful woman, has died at the age of 95, her family said Monday. On her 95th birthday on July 4, Lollobrigida told ANSA she was determined to stay creative with the photography and art projects she turned to after her decades as a sex symbol. The 'Bersagliera'...

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Screen diva Gina Lollobrigida turned 95 Monday telling ANSA she was determined to stay creative with the photography and art projects she turned to after her decades as a sex symbol. The 'Bersagliera' of Italian cinema, after an iconic feisty role, said "my birthday is a nice milestone and I'm still working. "I'm preparing a book (of drawings) fill...

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One of the major influences behind Lady Gaga’s look in House of Gucci was Italian actress and international siren Gina Lollobrigida, who inspired style choices for the character of Patrizia Reggiani Gucci, including a white lace coat, jacket and dress worn at the Lake Como birthday party of Aldo Gucci (played by Al Pacino). As British costume desig...

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In my opinion, it is important for creatives to experience and examine the work and art that has come before us. Everyone has work or photographers they aspire to, but who inspired them? The process and experience of unraveling this trail can lead to rapid artistic growth in my opinion, and the best part is coming across a photographer you never kn...

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