Gina Lollobrigida

Your grandparents may remember Gina Lollobrigida, one of Italy’s most memorable screen actresses from the 1960s. She had some spicy roles in such movies as The Wayward Wife and Beauties of the Night, and showed her acting range in more serious films, including The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Her film career ended, but Lollobrigida went on to bigger and better things.

n 1999, when she was in her 70s, she unsuccessfully campaigned for a seat in the European Union Parliament. More recently, she has made headlines when she filed a complaint that her ex-boyfriend married her under false pretenses. Supposedly, the ex used an impostor at the registry office in Barcelona in a scheme to gain control of her finances.