2025 Summer Under the Stars: Gina Lollobrigida (First-Timer)

TCM, beginning at 5 a.m.

Luigia Lollobrigida was a woman of many talents, including photojournalism and sculpting, but she remains best known as an actress, under her professional name of Gina Lollobrigida. The Italian star makes her Summer Under the Stars debut today with 12 films from her heyday on the big screen and as an international sex symbol. The lineup includes two TCM premieres: the 1965 romantic comedy Strange Bedfellows (pictured), also starring Rock Hudson, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956), a French-Italian production in which she plays Esmeralda alongside Anthony Quinn's Quasimodo.Other highlights include Lollobrigida's first American film, Beat the Devil (1953), director John Huston's adventure comedy led b

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