Gina Lollobrigida: Italian screen star dies at 95

Actress Gina Lollobrigida, 1 of the biggest stars of European cinema successful the 1950s and 60s, has died aged 95, Italian quality bureau Ansa has reported.

Often described arsenic "the astir beauteous pistillate successful the world", her films included Crossed Swords, the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Beautiful But Dangerous.

She co-starred alongside the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Rock Hudson and Errol Flynn.

Her vocation faded successful the 1960s and she moved into photography and politics.

Lollobrigida was 1 of the past surviving icons of the glory days of film, who Bogart said "made Marilyn Monroe look similar Shirley Temple".

The movie mogul - Howard Hughes - showered her with matrimony proposals. But disconnected camera, she enjoyed a bitchy feud with chap Italian prima Sophia Loren.