Sublime Super Technirama 70 Screen Godess Farewell. |
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| Written by: Mark Lyndon, in70mm.com, UK spokesman | Date: 18.01.2023 |
 Who
was the most charismatic, legendary and glamorous 70mm goddess of them all?
Look no further than the lovely, late lamented Gina Lollobrigida.Corporate media, in the shape of the most prestigeous British newspaper, gave extensive coverage to the passing of “The most beautiful woman in the world”, the late, great Gina Lollobrigida. Mostly concentrating on showbiz gossip, they were less informative about her very successful second carreer as a photographer and her many awards, not to mention her serious impact on the screen in 70mm, naturlich. They were more interested in Prince Rainier of Monaco making passes at Gina in front of his wife Princess Grace, her “complicated love life”, which included an affair with the surgeon Christian Barnard, of heart transplant fame, and her relentless pursuit by the billionaire Howard Hughes. He taught her English swearwords, don’t you know. To be fair, they were big enough to mention her Légion d’honneur, en passant. That’s the main stream media for you. Far more iteresting to 70mm aficionados is surely Gina in Super Technirama 70. “Solomon and Sheba”, was a huge epic, grossing $12,000,000 worldwide, a vast sum in the late nineteen fifties. She superstarred in the title rôle, opposite Yul Brynner. It ran for a solid 20 weeks on the giant curved screen of The Astoria in Charing Cross Road and saw in the new decade of the nineteen sixties. |
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 She was a triple 70mm star, the third film being the 70mm blowup "Cervantes"
in 1967. Providing the love interest, she played Giulia opposite Horst
Bucholtz in the title rôle.
The Italians were quite justly proud of Gina and so awarded her their
equivalent of the Oscar, the David di Donatello award in 1963 for best
actress in the Italian-French co-production
“Imperial
Venus”, presented in 70mm,
naturellement. Her co-star was another great 70mm hero, Stephen Boyd.
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