La Lollo Has Died, Aged 95 Years

[choux]

Gina Lollobrigida, RIP

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11640231/Italian-bombshell-Gina-Lollobrigida-died-aged-95.html

[Rosie29]

Wonderful actress. And a beautiful woman. Loved her comic duo with Peter Sellers. RIP Gina

[Redhelen72]

I didn’t recognise her but just looked her up and am amazed at how many of her films I have seen.
RIP Gina

[Patsy33]

Didn't she do well..
A good age.

[pastafreak]

Wasn't she a beauty in her heyday? I'd no idea about the sculpting and photography. A multi talented woman.

[jno]

goodness gracious me, wasn't that Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers?

[rowanwitch]

Sounds like she aged into a real character..... We all die but it's better when it comes at the end of an interesting life

[choux]

From the Mail:

"In 2013, when she was 85, an auction of her jewellery by Sotheby's in Geneva fetched $4.9 million and set a record for a pair of diamond and pearl earrings, which sold for $2.37 million. The proceeds went to stem cell research.

'Jewels are meant to give pleasure and for many years I had enormous pleasure wearing mine,' she said. 'Selling my jewels to help raise awareness of stem cell therapy, which can cure so many illnesses, seems to me a wonderful use to which to put them.' "

Good for her.

[Pete65]

Rest easy, Gina.

[piggynose]

Loved her comic duo with Peter Sellers.?
surely that was Sophia Loren?

[Hopkirk]

You can't play the Peter Sellers Goodness Gracious these days. Not PC.

[jno]

this one's probably okay

[Lie-in King]

Sad news. She was a beautiful woman & a fine actress. One of my dad's faves.

RIP Gina.

[Togo]

They don't make them like her anymore. A talented beauty who never took herself too seriously. R.I.P. Gina Lollabrigida.

[jourdain2]

R.I.P. I loved her with Peter Sellars. 'banger's & Mash' song and 'Goodness Gracious Me' probably wouldn't be allowed today.
Only negative I have is that she insisted that she only ever wore olive oil on her skin in the sun. A generation of us fried as a result!

[jourdain2]

^^^^ Oops Sophia Loren, song, sorry!

[Zacs-Master]

What a woman. In so many ways. RIP, Gina.

[Togo]

Thanks Choux.