# RIP Gina Lollobrigida **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [January 16, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-gina-lollobrigida/978308 "2023-01-16T15:03:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-gina-lollobrigida/978308/1 "2023-01-16T15:03:55Z")
> **[Gina Lollobrigida: Italian screen star dies at 95](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64292026)** > > She was a big star in the 1950s and '60s, and her life story was as exotic as the roles she played. Humphrey Bogart once said she ‘made Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple.’ No cause of death has been released, but she was 95. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-gina-lollobrigida/978308/2 "2023-01-16T16:07:11Z")
A great Bogey quote. Have to agree. RIP Gina. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-gina-lollobrigida/978308/3 "2023-01-16T16:08:45Z")
Pic from wiki [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Ivo_Lollobrigida_2.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Ivo_Lollobrigida_2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-gina-lollobrigida/978308/4 "2023-01-16T16:28:47Z")
Damn. Another one of the old-fashioned, sexy, [beauties](https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/gina-lollobrigida-in-the-law-movie-on-keystone-france.jpg) (and household names) of the 50s-60s. 🙁 Her name came up in an episode of [Wings](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0749197/), the sitcom about the small airfield on Nantucket. Antonio (Italian cabdriver played by Tony Shaloub) thinks his late uncle had an affair with Gina Lollobrigida. It turns out the uncle dallied with a _Gin-o_, not _Gin-a_. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-gina-lollobrigida/978308/5 "2023-01-16T16:42:46Z")
I was too young to appreciate her beauty and acting in her heyday for her movies, as they were a bit over my understanding at the time. But one of my first impressions of her was on the Jetsons. There she was shown as the beauty queen [Gina Lolojupiter](https://thejetsons.fandom.com/wiki/Gina_Lolajupiter) in the Miss Solar System pageant. To me at the time that was the height of fame, to be parodied on the Jetsons! It was only later that I came to find what a timeless beauty and impressive person she was. RIP Gina. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-gina-lollobrigida/978308/6 "2023-01-16T17:01:57Z")
A fact that the linked BBC article left out, but I read in another obituary, is that besides being an actor and later photographer, she was also a professional sculptor. She had studied sculpting and painting before she made her film career. A very impressive woman. ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-gina-lollobrigida/978308/7 "2023-01-16T17:05:40Z")
I just wrote a long piece of fiction set in 1963 wherein one character says about another, “She’s a good-looking woman–no Gina Lollobrigida or anything, but I wouldn’t kick her out of bed for eating crackers.” I liked the idea that she was still living almost 60 years after that scene was set, and readers might still recognize her name as a paragon of beauty. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-gina-lollobrigida/978308/8 "2023-01-16T17:07:49Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > But one of my first impressions of her was on the Jetsons. There she was shown as the beauty queen [Gina Lolojupiter](https://thejetsons.fandom.com/wiki/Gina_Lolajupiter) in the Miss Solar System pageant. I thought of Lollobrickida from The Flintstones episode where they hired a maid. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-gina-lollobrigida/978308/9 "2023-01-16T17:12:30Z")
Weren’t the Jetsons basically the Flintstones set in the space age? Did both shows share writers? Maybe they just recycled the Lollobrigida pun for the other show. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-gina-lollobrigida/978308/10 "2023-01-16T17:25:48Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Humphrey Bogart once said she ‘made Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple.’ They starred together in “Beat The Devil,” along with Peter Lorre and Robert Morley. A hilarious, often-overlooked film. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-gina-lollobrigida/978308/11 "2023-01-16T17:34:25Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Weren’t the Jetsons basically the Flintstones set in the space age? Did both shows share writers? Kinda-sorta; _The Flintstones_ was originally inspired by _The Honeymooners_, and a fair amount of its focus was on the Fred/Barney friendship (paralleling Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton), while _The Jetsons_ was more focused on George and his family (and there wasn’t a recurring “buddy” character for George). That said, both shows had the same creators/producers/directors (William Hanna and Joseph Barbera), both shows were originally run in prime time, and _The Jetsons_ was created two years after _The Flintstones_, building on that show’s success in the ratings. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-gina-lollobrigida/978308/12 "2023-01-16T18:37:09Z")
I think she had the sexiest name in the history of Hollywood, which fits. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-gina-lollobrigida/978308/13 "2023-01-16T19:17:25Z")
Her name shows up on _Modern Family_ as the person who … > [@](#): > > When Jay was 12 years old, he stayed at Jim’s house one night and neither of them wanted to go to sleep. So, the two boys sneaked off to the movies, and they saw this little picture called “Solomon and Sheba.” Then Jay said that Sheba was… and Cam and Pepper answer “Gina Lollobrigida”! and Jay said that for the rest of his life, he swore, one day, he would marry Gina Lollobrigida and Mitchell answered “Well, Dad, you kind of did.”. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-gina-lollobrigida/978308/14 "2023-01-16T20:09:57Z")
I can’t think of her without remembering a Gina I once knew. ☹ RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-gina-lollobrigida/978308/15 "2023-01-16T20:26:39Z")
Woah! She was still alive? So long to another childhood crush.