Gina Lollobrigida

[Dave Grubb]

Died at the age of 95---may you RIP

For you youngins:

Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, one of the biggest stars of European cinema in the 1950s and '60s, has died at the age of 95.

Often described as "the most beautiful woman in the world", her films included Beat the Devil, the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Crossed Swords.

She co-starred alongside the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Rock Hudson and Errol Flynn.

Her career faded in the 1960s and she moved into photography and politics.

Nicknamed La Lollo, she was one of the last surviving icons of the glory days of film, who Bogart said "made Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple".

Movie mogul Howard Hughes showered her with marriage proposals. Off camera, she enjoyed a feud with fellow Italian star Sophia Loren.

[Mike]

Wow! If I'd been asked, I would have guessed she had passed two or three decades ago. RIP.

[Truckman]

Of the better known Italian actresses of that era, that leaves Claudia Cardinale still alive at 85...She's still making movies...RIP Gina......Ben

[Dave Grubb]

OH---you forget my dear friend the lovely and seductive Sophia Loren She is now 85

[Truckman]

OH---you forget my dear friend the lovely and seductive Sophia Loren She is now 85

I didn't actually forget her, but only so many women will fit in my tiny little imagination at one time...

And IMDB says she'll be 89 in September......Ben

[Sandman]

Sophia Loren made a movie, a good move in the past several years.. she plays an elderly woman who is raising children of prostitutes .. “ The Life Ahead “ on Netflix..

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10627584/

[Dave Grubb]

I didn't actually forget her, but only so many women will fit in my tiny little imagination at one time...

And IMDB says she'll be 89 in September......Ben

You are correct sir:

Born: September 20, 1934 (age 88 years), Rome, Italy

But in my mind she will be forever young

[Truckman]

But in my mind she will be forever young

Oh yeah!......Ben

[Mike]

Born: September 20, 1934 (age 88 years), Rome, Italy

My gosh! Think of her FUBAR childhood growing up in Italy during WWII. No child should experience that.

I think of the experiences in Ukraine that must be much the same, once again all due to one man and his henchmen. Russia has no right to continue to exist as a country after what has been done in Ukraine. It should be partitioned and divvied up among it's neighbors never to exist again.

[Honda]

She was a little before my time, but I'll tell you my dad had a big crush on her.

[UTAH]

Ahhh... one of our full-figured stars of yesteryear. She truly was an international sex symbol - yet was so much more.

I never met her in life but look forward to doing so in death.

Hunter

[Dave Grubb]

It should be partitioned and divvied up among it's neighbors never to exist again.

We (the collective) have tried that a number of times----obviously we don't know the way to success in that endeavor.