You lived to a grand, ol' age and charmed your way through each year, enthralling fans with many appealing appearances, on screen and in person.
The movies are many: Solomon and Sheba; Woman of Rome; Woman of Straw; Anna of Brooklyn; Go Naked in the World; Flesh Will Surrender; Bread, Love and Dreams; Bread, Love and Jealousy; Beat the Devil; Trapeze; Crossed Swords; The Green Fog; Strange Bedfellows; Come September; Pleasant November; Man Sea; The Law; The Sultans; Me, Me, Me...and the Others; Wife for a Night; The Wayward Wife; The Bride Can't Wait; Love I Haven't...But...But; The Young Caruso; Black Eagle; A Dog's Life; When Love Calls; The Wine of Love; Pagliacci; The Adventures of Pinocchio; Miss Italia; The White Line; Attention! Bandits!; Bueno Sera, Mrs. Campbell; Alarm Bells; Four Ways Out; Times Gone By; The Dolls; Stuntman; King, Queen, Knave; Death Laid an Egg; Hotel Paradiso; Pleasant Nights; Beauties of the Night; Never So Few; and a fruitful stint on the sudsy Falcon Crest.
My favorite of your portrayals is of unjustly maligned Esmeralda in director Jean Delannoy's 1956 adaptation of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, opposite Anthony Quinn's impassioned and downtrodden Quasimodo. You brought a sauciness and innocence to the role, just as Hugo had woven throughout his epic text: spot-on to an breathtaking extent.
You were also an incomparable heartthrob, a cinematic pin-up who also possessed the acting chomps to calibrate her performances.
You will be endlessly revered as a movie icon, Ms. Lollobrigida, a goddess who roamed this humble earth, who now reigns the peaks of Mount Olympus.
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