Italian film legend Gina Lollobrigida dies at 95

Best known for Luigi Comencini's 1953 classic 'Bread, Love And Dreams', and Jean Delannoy's 1956 'The Hunchback Of Notre Dame', Gina Lollobrigida starred with many of the leading men of the time, including Errol Flynn, Burt Lancaster and Humphrey Bogart. Photo: Reuters

Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, one of the last icons of the Golden Age of Hollywood, has died aged 95, culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano announced Monday.

"Farewell to a diva of the silver screen, protagonist of more than half a century of Italian cinema history. Her charm will remain eternal," Sangiuliano wrote after Italy's ANSA news agency reported her death.