Italian screen icon Gina
Lollobrigida will unveil her star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame on
February 1, when she will receive the Filming on Italy Award,
sources said Thursday.
News of the Walk of Fame star came on her 90th birthday on
July 4.
Lollobrigida, better known to Italians as 'La Lollo', long
vied with fellow Italian bombshell Sophia Loren and French sex
kitten Brigitte Bardot for the title of the world's sexiest
woman.
In 1955 she starred in a film called La Donna Piu
Bella del Mondo (The World's Most Beautiful Woman), which
became her signature movie.
The daughter of a furniture manufacturer from a mountain
village outside Rome, she has made over 60 films including
some during the 1990s.
Since retiring from cinema Lollobrigida has tried her
hand as a photographer, sculptor, photojournalist and a
fashion and cosmetics executive.
The diva was divorced in 1971 after a 22-year marriage to
a Yugoslav doctor, by whom she had a son.
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