1961: Gina Lollobrigida, World Film Favorite
Gina Lollobrigida was a popular international movie star in the 1950s, starring in Italian movies like Bread, Love and Dreams (1953), directed by Luigi Comencini, and The Wayward Wife (1953), from Mario Soldati; French films like Beauties of the Night (1952) and Fanfan la Tulipe (1952), both co-starring Gérard Philipe; and American movies like John Huston’s Beat the Devil (1953), opposite Humphrey Bogart, and Trapeze (1956), alongside Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster.