Gina LollobrigidaFilmography

Born:: July 4, 1927 in Subiaco, Abruzzan, Italy
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Luigina Lollobrigida
Biography:: Known as "La Lollo," Gina Lollobrigida was the first sex symbol to emerge from post-WWII Europe at a time when Italians were giving up on neorealism in favor of Hollywood glamour. Coming in third place at the 1947 Miss Italia contest made her the ideal star for escapist cinema. Arriving perfectly...Read More

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Actors: Michel Boujenah, Gérard Depardieu, Elsa Zylberstein, Catherine Jacob, Maurice Chevit

Synopsis: Ariel Zeitoun directed this French comedy depicting Ashkenazic-Sephardic rivalries in the Jewish garment district of Paris. Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chevit) learns of the death Read More

12/10/97
A Hundred and One Nights

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet

Synopsis: This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie Read More

1995
Deceptions

Actors: Stefanie Powers

Synopsis: Stefanie Powers does double duty as twin sisters in the two-part TV movie Deceptions. Stefanie #1 is a glamorous globetrotter; Stefanie #2 is a drab New Jersey housewife. On a whim, the two siblings exchange identities, leading to a dizzying series of unexpected complications. Filmed on location Read More

1985
Falcon Crest: Season 04

Actors: Jane Wyman, Gina Lollobrigida, David Selby, Robert Foxworth, Susan Sullivan

Synopsis: Season Four of Falcon Crest is dominated by a storyline involving "The Cartel", a widespread criminal organization headed by war criminal Gustav Riebmann (J. Paul Freeman)--who turns out to have been the former lover of Jacqueline Perrault, the late mother of Tuscany Valley winery owner Chase Read More

1984
Stelle Emigranti

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Sylva Koscina, Virna Lisi, Claudia Cardinale, Giorgia Moll

Synopsis: In a revealing documentary about one slice of film history, directors Francesco Bortolini and Claudio Masenza interview eight Italian actresses who attained fame in the U.S. through films they made in Hollywood. Most of the eight agree that performers are treated better in Hollywood than in Italy Read More

1983
Portrait of Fidel Castro

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Actress Gina Lollabrigida produced, wrote and directed this very personal 50-minute documentary on Fidel Castro. Supplementing the in-depth central interview of the film with her own photos depicting life in Cuba, Lollabrigida also manages to candidly capture the supreme leader of Cuba as a Read More

1975
The Lonely Woman

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Gina Lollobrigida, Susan Hampshire, Renaud Verley

1973
Bad Man's River

Actors: Lee Van Cleef, Gina Lollobrigida, James Mason

Synopsis: A Mexican revolutionary offers four marauding outlaws a million bucks to destroy an arsenal owned by the Mexican army. The arsenal gets blasted, but the million bucks doesn't get delivered in this "outsmart the outsmarters" and "double-cross the double-crossers" western saga. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1972
King, Queen, Knave

Actors: David Niven, Gina Lollobrigida, John Moulder-Brown, Mario Adorf, Carl Fox-Duering

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank (John Moulder Brown), a young orphan who finds himself deep in the romantic clutches of his uncle's sensual wife. After Frank's parents die, he goes to live with his aunt Martha (Gina Lollabrigida Read More

1972
Adventures of Pinocchio

Synopsis: Writer/director Luigi Comencini originally created Le Avventure di Pinocchio as a five-and-a-half-hour miniseries for Italian television. This 134-minute version, featuring various guest stars, was released theatrically. Pinocchio (Andrea Balestri) is a wooden puppet carved by Geppetto (Nino Manfredi Read More

1971
Stuntman

Synopsis: In this adventure, stunt men use the tricks of their trade to bring a rare Indian statue back to its rightful owners. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

12/31/68
La Morte Ha Fatto l'Uovo

Synopsis: This is a deliriously strange thriller about a scientist (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who is breeding headless, boneless chickens at a high-tech farm. He's having an affair with Ewa Aulin, who is plotting with him to kill his wife (Gina Lollobrigida)...and she's plotting with Aulin to kill him...and Read More

1/9/68
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford, Telly Savalas

Synopsis: Gina Lollobrigida delivers a bright comic turn in Melvin Frank's farce concerning Carla, an Italian woman who, during World War II, had affairs with three American soldiers who served in the U.S. Army Air Force -- Phil Newman (Phil Silvers), Justin Young (Peter Lawford), and Walter Braddock (Telly Savalas Read More

1968
Un Bellissimo Novembre

Actors: Franco Abbinia, Maria Rosa Amato, Maria DiBenedetto, Jean Maucorps, Giuseppe Naso, Ileana Rigano, Isabella Savona

Synopsis: The Italian title for That Splendid November is Un Belissima Novembre, but it might as well have been "Belissima Gina". That's because the film's main attraction is Gina Lollobrigida, whose well-proportioned chassis diverts the audience's attention from the turgid plot. The story concerns a large Read More

1968
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell

Actors: Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Jeffrey Hunter, Gina Lollobrigida, Mylène Demongeot

Synopsis: O'Farrell (Bob Hope) is a navy sergeant who tries to boost the moral of the men by bringing in a shipment of beer. When the beer turns up missing, he calls an all-out search for the suds. In the process, O'Farrell captures a Japanese submarine single-handedly and tries to pilot the boat to safety. Phyllis Diller Read More

1968
Cervantes

Synopsis: This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the 16th-century, when as a young man he goes to Italy to become a soldier for the Pope. Later he helps the Pope's emissary wage war against the Spanish Moors. His exploits win him great Read More

11/4/67
Les Sultans

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Louis Jourdan, Philippe Noiret, Corinne Marchand

Synopsis: Gina Lollobrigida plays a woman who attempts suicide when her affair with the successful businessman Laurent Louis Jourdan fails to satisfy. He has rushed to save his daughter from a philandering lothario much like himself, but Gina is heartbroken when Laurent does not call and give her the Read More

5/6/66
Io, Io, Io...E Gli Altri

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano, Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: Director Alessandro Blasetti used an all-star Italian cast for this satirical comedy that pokes fun at the selfishness of humans and uses one character to link a series of comic vignettes. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

2/16/66
Hotel Paradiso

Actors: Alec Guinness, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peggy Mount, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: While his icy wife is away tending to a sick friend, Benedict Boniface (Alec Guinness) has an affair with Marcelle Cot (Gina Lollobrigida), the pretty but neglected wife of the pompous architect Henri (Robert Morley). When Henri unexpectedly returns, Marcelle and Benedict don disguises and hide Read More

1966
Bambole!

Actors: Virna Lisi, Nino Manfredi, Elke Sommer, Maurizio Arena

Synopsis: Four different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film. The vignettes are "The Phone," about a woman so busy talking on the phone that she fails to notice that her husband is having sex with a neighbor; "Treatise on Eugenics," the chronicle of a Swedish girl's search Read More

1/27/65
Strange Bedfellows

Actors: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Gig Young, Edward Judd, Terry-Thomas

Synopsis: This romantic comedy stars Rock Hudson as Carter Harrison, an executive rising through the ranks of a major oil company. When he meets Toni Vincente (Gina Lollobrigida), a beautiful but hot-tempered artist, it's love at first sight and they quickly marry. The bloom is soon off the rose, however Read More

1965
Curves in the Road

Synopsis: This French/Italian comedy was originally released as La Bellezza di Ippolita, and was also distributed as Beautiful Ippolita and She Got What She Asked For. Gina Lollobrigida plays an ex-chorus girl who weds wealthy Enrico Maria Salerno. Though he must be insane to do so, Salerno begins cheating Read More

1964
Woman of Straw

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson, Johnny Sekka, Laurence Hardy

Synopsis: In this British melodrama based on a French novel by Catherine Arley, Sean Connery plays Anthony Richmond, a money-hungry young man enraged that his rich, dying uncle doesn't plan to include him in his will. Instead, Charles Richmond (Ralph Richardson) plans to give his fortune to charity. Anthony Read More

1964
Venere Imperiale

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Stephen Boyd, Raymond Pellegrin, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: This French/Italian historical spectacle was released in the US as Imperial Venus. Gina Lollobridgida, in her considerable prime, stars as Paolina Bonaparte, Napoleon's wanton, sensuous sister. We see Paolina through many affairs and her unhappy marriage of state. Her hot Corsican dalliance with Read More

12/22/62
La Bellezza Ippolita

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Enrico Maria Salerno

Synopsis: One of Italy's most beautiful sex symbols, Gina Lollobrigida, stars as the flirtatious Ippolita in this routine comedy about sex and the jealous husband. Ippolita leaves her life as a vaudeville actress to marry Luca (Enrico Mario Salerno), who runs a gas station. She helps him out but has a Read More

1962
Come September

Actors: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Walter Slezak

Synopsis: Rock Hudson stars in this frothy romantic comedy as filthy-rich American Robert Talbot. Talbot owns an Italian villa, where he traditionally stays only one month out of the year (September), but when Talbot suddenly decides to show up in July, Talbot's major overseer Maurice (Walter Slezak) is Read More

1961
Go Naked in the World

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Franciosa, Ernest Borgnine, Luana Patten, Will Kuluva

Synopsis: Gina Lollobrigida plays a Lady of the Evening who is wooed by wealthy young Anthony Franciosa. She leaves him in the dark concerning her checkered past. Alas, Franciosa's father Ernest Borgnine knows everything about Lollobrigida, and breaks the bad news to his son. Aghast at first, Franciosa is Read More

1961
The Law

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Pierre Brasseur, Marcello Mastroianni, Melina Mercouri, Yves Montand, Raf Mattioli

Synopsis: Jules Dassin, blacklisted during the McCarthy era, directs this routine, ostensibly romantic tale that really courts an underlying theme of the misuse of power. Based on a popular French novel and set in a small Mediterranean town, the story involves a small group of men and the woman several of Read More

1/25/59
Solomon and Sheba

Actors: Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders, Marisa Pavan, David Farrar

Synopsis: Romance, treachery, intrigue and spiritual awakenings abound in the Biblical film adaptation of Solomon and Sheba. Trouble begins between two brothers when poet Solomon (Yul Brynner) is chosen to be next in line to the throne by King David of Israel. His warrior brother Adonijah (George Sanders) Read More

1959
Never So Few

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson

Synopsis: Action director John Sturges had a few good films behind him (Bad Day at Black Rock, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) and a few more to come (The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven) when he put together this colorful story of wartime romance. In addition to his talents as a director, this saga of an Read More

1959
Anna di Brooklyn

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Dale Robertson, Vittorio De Sica, Carla Macelloni, Gabriella Pallotta

Synopsis: In this occasionally amusing frolic, Gina Lollobrigida plays a sexy widow who returns to Italy from New York following the death of her husband. Her wealth and good looks entice all the men in her small village except for the one she really wants, the town blacksmith (Dale Robertson). Giuseppe Rotunno Read More

4/19/58
Anna of Brooklyn

Synopsis: Anna may be from Brooklyn, but this medium-budget domestic drama was filmed and financed in Italy. The title character, played by Gina Lollobrigida, returns from Flatbush to her small village in Italy in search of a husband. Among her suitors are Dale Robertson and Vittorio DeSica, indicating that Read More

1958
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Quinn, Jean Danet, Dr. Robert Hirsch, Alain Cuny, Maurice Sarfati, Philippe Clay

Synopsis: Better known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, this opulent French production is the second talkie version of Victor Hugo's famous novel. Buried under mounds of latex, Anthony Quinn does his best as the deformed bellringer Quasimodo, though he comes off more as a punchdrunk ex-pug than a literal Read More

3/14/57
Trapeze

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez

Synopsis: Former circus aerialist Burt Lancaster was the logical choice to star in the Technicolor drama Trapeze. Lancaster plays a crippled acrobat, disabled after attempting to perform a dangerous triple mid-air somersault. Tony Curtis co-stars as an aspiring aerialist who coerces Lancaster into teaching Read More

1956
La Donna Piu Bella del Mondo

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Vittorio Gassman, Robert Alda, Tamara Lees, Gino Sinimberghi

Synopsis: In the last stages of his career, veteran American director Robert Z. Leonard dabbled in international productions. One of the best-distributed of these was the Gina Lollobrigida vehicle Beautiful But Dangerous. Lollobrigida is cast as Lina Cavaliari, an earthy Italian peasant who becomes a Read More

10/21/55
The Wayward Wife

Synopsis: In this drama, a young woman with a checkered past reforms and marries a good man. Unfortunately, her happiness is threatened by a blackmailer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1955
Pane, Amore e Gelosia

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Vittorio De Sica, Marisa Merlini, Roberto Risso, Maria Pia Casilio

Synopsis: In this sequel to Bread, Love, and Dreams a fortyish man gets himself in trouble with his wife who suspects him of messing around with a sexy woman. Unfortunately, he is innocent. His attempts to prove it form the basis for the story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

12/6/54
La Romana

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Daniel Gélin, Raymond Pellegrin, Franco Fabrizi, Pina Piovani

Synopsis: La Romana (Women of Rome) is a worthwhile early starring vehicle for Gina Lollobrigida. "La Lollo" plays a young woman who is strong-armed into a modelling career by her ambitious mother. Before long, she discovers that there's a lot more money to be had if she sells her body rather than merely Read More

10/27/54
Crossed Swords

Actors: Errol Flynn, Gina Lollobrigida, Cesare Danova, Nadia Gray, Paola Mori, Roldano Lupi

Synopsis: Errol Flynn's immediate followup to his 1953 swashbuckler Master of Ballantrae was Il Maestro di Don Giovanni--or, as it was known in America, Crossed Swords. Flynn plays a Don Juan-like adventurer named Renzo, who fights and romances his way through all sorts of Italian court intrigue. His Read More

9/17/54
Le Grand Jeu

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Jean Pascal, Raymond Pellegrin, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love. It turns out that she is an amnesiac. With her, the attorney tries to re-spark his old relationship. Read More

4/12/54
Pane, Amore e Fantasia

Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Marisa Merlini, Virgilio Riento, Roberto Risso

Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica plays the middle-aged marshal of carabiniers in a remote Italian mountain village. He's anxious to marry, and selects young Gina Lollobrigida as his bride; but she is already in love with De Sica's shy subordinate Roberto Risso. Mistaking her headstrong behavior as promiscuity, De Sica Read More

12/22/53
Le Infedeli

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, May Britt, Anna Maria Ferrero, Pierre Cressoy, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: Le Infedeli is graced by two internationally popular leading ladies: Italy's Gina Lollobrigida and Sweden's Mai Britt. The two actresses are but small portions of a larger plot mosaic, all about keeping up appearances no matter what the provocation. A group of "respectable" people are all partly Read More

1/23/53
Beat the Devil

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get uranium out of East Africa. Bogart's associates include pompous fraud Robert Morley, and Peter Lorre as the German-accented "O'Hara", whose wartime record is forever a source of speculation and suspicion. Becoming Read More

1953
La Provinciale

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Franco Interlenghi, Renato Baldini

Synopsis: The ever-growing popularity of Gina Lollobrigida was a decided box-office asset when the Italian La Provinciale was distributed to the U.S. as The Wayward Wife. Lollobrigida acquits herself quite nicely in the tensely dramatic role of a much-put-upon small-town girl named Cemma. Seduced by a lad Read More

1953
Les Belles de Nuit

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida, Magali Vendeuil, Marilyn Buferd

Synopsis: Director René Clair insisted that his 1952 production Beauties of the Night (Les Belles du Nuit) was intended as a comic variation on Griffith's multipart Intolerance (1916). The Clair film deals with a disillusioned music teacher (Gérard Philipe) who dreams of the beautiful women of history Read More

11/14/52
Altri Tempi

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Enzo Staiola

Synopsis: An all-star cast graces this Italian "omnibus" feature. The film consists of eight short stories, each based on nostalgic literary efforts. Linking the various stories is bookseller Aldo Fabrizi, who passes the time by reading the works dramatized herein. In "The Excelsior Ball," dancer Alba Arnova Read More

9/28/52
Bride for a Night

Actors: Gino Cervi, Armando Francioli, Gina Lollobrigida, Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis: The title of this Italian period comedy translates to Bride for a Night. Armando Francioli plays an impoverished 18th-century musician who seeks the patronage of a wealthy, libertine count (Gino Cervi). When the count comes to town on a visit, the musician hits upon a scheme: he will bundle his Read More

7/12/52
Fanfan la Tulipe

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand, Oliver Hussenot, Nerio Bernardi, Noël Roquevert

Synopsis: Pauline Kael once characterized the French adventure film Fanfan the Tulip as a "Louis XV western". This is a pretty broad interpretation, though it is true that the film never stops moving--an excellent method of sustaining audience attention and plugging up the plot holes. Gerard Philipe plays Read More

3/20/52
The Young Caruso

Actors: Ermanno Randi, Gina Lollobrigida, Gino Saltamerenda

Synopsis: Not long before MGM embarked upon its musical biopic The Great Caruso, the Italian Enrico Caruso, Leggenda di Una Voce made the American distribution rounds. Maurizio di Nardo plays famed tenor Caruso as a boy, while Ermanno Randi takes over the role in adulthood. The film makes no pretense at Read More

1951
Gobbi: In Pagliacci

Synopsis: Tito Gobbi was one of the biggest stars on the international opera scene in the '40s and '50s, and he lent his strong baritone voice and forceful personality to a number of memorable roles. Tito Gobbi in Pagliacci & Highlights From Guglielmo Tell includes a filmed version of Ruggiero Leoncavallo's Read More

1951
A Tale of Five Women

Actors: Bonar Colleano, Lana Morris, Barbara Kelly, Anne Vernon, Eva Bartok

Synopsis: Former Hollywood musical director (and erstwhile government spy) Boris Morros was one of the producers of the British Tale of Five Cities. Bonar Colleano stars as British soldier Bob Mitchell, who has picked up American habits and speech patterns while employed in the U.S. Suffering from amnesia Read More

1951
Achtung! Banditi!

1951
Vita Da Cani

9/28/50
Cuori Senza Frontiere

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Raf Vallone, Erno Crisa, Cesco Baseggio

Synopsis: The White Line is a modest anti-war statement set in a tiny Italian village near Trieste. As the result of an International Peace Conference, the nearby borders are changed, with a white line drawn in the middle of the town. One half of the community belongs to the Italians, while the other half Read More

9/26/50
Alina

Synopsis: When an impoverished but devoted Italian wife's husband falls ill and she is forced to take his place in a dangerous smuggling operation, she finds her will tested as she makes her way through the harsh landscape towards the French border in director Giorgio Pastina's downbeat drama. As night Read More

8/6/50
Miss Italia

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Richard Ney, Constance Dowling, Luisa Rossi

Synopsis: Real-life beauty contest winner Gina Lollobrigida is appropriately cast in Miss Italia. The first half of the film is a dramatization of the events leading up to Italy's number-one beauty pageant. The final portion consists of footage from the actual event. Inevitably, the real thing is more Read More

2/15/50
La Città si difende

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Renato Baldini, Cosetta Greco, Paul Muller, Enzo Maggio

Synopsis: Gina Lollobrigida has top billing in Four Ways Out, but the film's dramatic weight is carried by its male stars. The story concerns a quartet of hard-luck cases, played by Renato Baldini, Enzo Maggio, Paul Muller and Fausto Tozzi. Feeling as though the cards have been stacked against them in life Read More

1950
My Beautiful Daughter

1950
Campane a martello

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Eduardo de Filippo, Yvonne Sanson, Carlo Romano, Carlo Giustini

Synopsis: Gina Lollobridgida was a virtual unknown in the U.S. when Campagne a Martello was released to English-speaking countries in 1950. Critics said then what they'd say later: as an actress, Gina was very pretty. The story concerns an Italian prostitute named Agostina (Lollobridgida) who is left Read More

9/16/49
La Sposa Non Puo Attendere

1949
I Pagliacci

Actors: Tito Gobbi, Gina Lollobrigida

Synopsis: Love of a Clown was originally released in Italy as Il Pagliacci--and rightly so, since this is a film adaptation of Leoncavallo's one-act opera. Famed baritone Tito Gobbi dons clown suit and cries his eyes out as Pagliacci, the provincial entertainer who takes in a homeless woman, only to be Read More

12/2/48
Follie per l'Opera

Actors: Carlo Campanini, Constance Dowling, Aroldo Tieri, Al Silvani

Synopsis: The leading lady of the Italian Mad About Opera was billed in the English-language prints as Lollo Brigida. By the time the film was reissued in the mid-1950s, this gaffe had been corrected, and Gina Lollobrigida received proper screen credit. The story details the misadventures of a group of Read More

9/29/48
Aquila Nera

Actors: Rossano Brazzi, Irasema Dilian, Gino Cervi, Harry Feist

Synopsis: Before turning to horror pictures, Italian filmmaker Riccardo Freda directed some of the finest costume epics of the postwar era. Filmed in 1946 as Aquila Nera, Freda's Return of the Black Eagle made it to American screens in 1949. Based on a story by Alexander Pushkin, the film concerns the Read More

9/21/46

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