Gina Lollobrigida: Difference between revisions

* [[Beauty Contest]]: Gina first came to significant public notice in 1947, when she entered the Miss Italy beauty pageant and won 3rd place. The 1stfirst- and 2ndsecond-place winners were, respectively, Lucia Bose and Gianna Maria Canale, who also became actresses; in fact, the Miss Italy pageants in the late 1940's1940s and early 1950's1950s turned out to be a fertile field for the discovery of stars and starlets for the burgeoning Italian film industry.

* [[Brainy Brunette]]: As detailed in the [[Renaissance Man|Renaissance Woman]] entry, Gina iswas multilingual and highly accomplished in many fields of the fine arts.

* [[Golden Age of Hollywood]]: A subversion, as Gina actually earned her fame in Italian cinema (her breakthrough role was in ''[[Bread, Love and Dreams]]'' in 1953) before beginning to get roles in American films in the late 1950's1950s, when old Hollywood was beginning its transition to [[New Hollywood]].

* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: A number of her movies, most notably ''[[La Donna Piu' Bella del Mondo]]'' (''The Most Beautiful Woman in the World'', a biopic of [[The Edwardian Era|Edwardian Era]] opera diva [[Lina Cavalieri]]), have never been officially released in the United States on VHS or DVD.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Most of her movies during her time as an international star, especially ''La Donna 'Piu Bella Del Mondo'' (she has a lengthy [[Stocking Filler]] scene as a music-hall singer early on), ''[[Anna di Brooklyn]]'' (''Fast and Sexy'') (the most famous image from the movie shows her in a very skimpy one-piece black lace outfit), and ''Trapeze'' (arguably one of the main purposes of the movie is to show La Lollo in a revealing circus-performer costume).

* [[Of Corsets Sexy]]: Her 1950's1950s movie, ''La Donna 'Piu Bella Del Mondo'' (''Beautiful But Dangerous'') shows Gina snugly corseted in several scenes, most strikingly during a [[Sword Fight|fencing duel]] with a professional rival.

* [[Renaissance Man|Renaissance Woman]]: Gina iswas a skilled photographer (with several published folios to her credit), sculptor, painter and singer.