Italian screen icon Gina
Lollobrigida unveiled her star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame on
Thursday.
"It's been 50 years since my last Hollywood film but people
greeted me as if it were a minute ago," said the 90-year-old.
"I'm moved".
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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