In 1956, Gina Lollobrigida was up to speed on her career. Daughter of a modest worker in the Roman countryside, she is, at 29, a "diva", a star of Italian cinema. Long reduced to her plastic, confined to the almost silent second roles of pretty girls, the actress took off by becoming "the Bersagliera" of "Bread, Love and Fantasy" by Comencini, in 1953. Three years later, she ready to receive, at the very first Italian Oscars, the David di Donatello for best actress, for her role in “La Belle des belles”. Gina also exports herself: she has just played with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, in "Trapèze" by Carol Reed, shot at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris, and in the Boulogne-Billancourt studios. It was in these same studios on rue de Silly that our photographers Izis and Walter Carone found "La Lollo" in the spring of 1956. For Match, Gina Lollobrigida poses in Esmeralda's outfit, which she will play in the adaptation “Notre D ame de...