, before making her first film appearance in 1946, with a small role in the swashbuckling adventure "The Black Eagle."
By the early 1950s, she was a huge star in Europe. She made her English-language film debut in 1953, in John Huston's "Beat the Devil," alongside Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones.She was Esmerelda to Anthony Quinn's Quasimodo in the 1956 adaptation of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," and the Queen of Sheba to Yul Brynner's King Solomon in King Vidor's 1959 Technicolor epic "Solomon and Sheba.
When film roles began to dwindle in the 1970s, Lollobrigida made a new career for herself as a photojournalist. She occasionally appeared in film and on TV, most famously in a recurring role in US prime-time soap "Falcon Crest" in 1984. Last year, she ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Italian Senate, telling newspaper Corriere della Sera before the country's elections: "I was just tired of hearing politicians arguing with each other without ever getting to the point."
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Gina Lollobrigida: a life in picturesActor, photographer, sculptor and style icon, Gina Lollobrigida has died at the age of 95. La Lollo’s heyday was the 1950s and 60s and here we look back at her fabulous life. Stupenda fino alla fine. Riposare in Pace, LaLolla ❤❤❤
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