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Reuters
Reuters
Entertainment
By Philip Pullella

Gina Lollobrigida: From post-war film legend to artist

FILE PHOTO: Italian film icon Gina Lollobrigida poses near two of her sculptures in her villa in southern Rome December 7, 2006. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo

Gina Lollobrigida, who has died at the age of 95, shot to fame in the 1950s as a sultry Mediterranean sex symbol, then became a photographer and sculptor after stepping away from the movie world.

At the height of her fame in the 1950s and 1960s, Lollobrigida, who was known simply as "La Lollo," was an internationally recognised epitome of Italian post-war cinema, rivalled only by Sophia Loren.

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