Italian film actress and sex symbol Gina Lollobrigida has passed at 95. She was at her peak of worldwide popularity in the 1950s and 1960s with such films as Beat the Devil, Trapeze, and Buena Sera Mrs Campbell (which served as the main plot of Mamma Mia many years later.) She was courted agressively by billionaire Howard Hughes. She co-starred with the top male superstars of the day including Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, Rock Hudson, and Sean Connery. (She co-starred in Solomon and Sheba with Tyrone Power when he died suddenly and was replaced with Yul Brynner.)
Here is a related story when I was a young boy. My mom would shop the DC department stores when they were the classy retail giants, and she ran into Gina in Garfinckels in the women's lounge and got her autograph (below). I still have it after more than 50 years!
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