Gina Lollobrigida, Italian star of the 1950s and 60s, dies aged 95

Actor, photojournalist and sex symbol was best known for appearances in films such as Beat the Devil, Solomon and Sheba and Buona Sera, Mrs Campbell

Gina Lollobrigida, the Italian actor once called “the most beautiful woman in the world”, has died at the age of 95. Corriere della Sera reported the news, saying she had been “hospitalised for some time”.

Through the 1950s and 60s, Lollobrigida was one of the world’s most desired performers and starred in a large number of European and American films opposite many of Hollywood’s leading men of the day.