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Bambole, or "Dolls," is the playful sex comedy that scandalized the Vatican, provoked a near crisis over movie censorship in the Italian government, and brought grievous moments to scrumptious Gina Lollobrigida, who told a Roman judge that during her celebrated "nude" scene she was wearing a flesh-colored coverall. Pending the outcome of charges that Lollo and her codefendants may have perpetrated an immoral exhibition, movie exhibitors everywhere are itching to unreel the evidence. It consists of a four-part comedy, vaguely inspired by The Decameron, in which a quartet of beauties with little on their minds and less...
...Lollobrigida, the outrageously accomplished predator of Monsignor Cupid, ensnares the staid nephew (Jean Sorel) of a churchman attending the Vatican Council in Rome. As a hotelkeeper who offers practically unlimited amenities, Gina tricks the gullible monsignor (Akim Tamiroff) into acting as her go-between, unwittingly goading the stalwart young innocent to her bed. How she does it is revealed by Director Mauro Bolognini with style, polish and cinematic fluidity...
...precedent is always useful in court, so Gina Lollobrigida, 36, was saying: "The theater has always been full of daring performers since Grecian times -even the great Greta Gar bo, who undressed much more than today's actresses without creating a scandal." La Lollo was in a Roman court on charges of "outraging the public morals" by appearing apparently nude behind a bed sheet in Le Bambole (The Dolls). This was silly, said she, loftily. No great actress tries to create a scandal. "Even a spicy part can be done seriously." And besides, she cooed to the judge...
...little hard to imagine Lyndon Baines Johnson staking his Administration's prestige over recent performances by Carroll Baker or Kim Novak. But in the land that produced Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida, the movie industry is seen in a deeper perspective. Last week the uneasy coalition government of Christian Democratic Premier Aldo Moro was threatened with a crisis over censorship of the cinema...
Recently the Vatican, mostly through its daily, L'Osservatore Romano, has been lambasting the nudity and immorality in Italian movies. Marriage, Italian Style was bad enough, but a worse offender now is a current boxoffice success called Le Bambole (The Dolls), which features Gina Lollobrigida playing a bored wife who falls for the nephew of a bishop attending the Vatican's Ecumenical Council. Her ef forts to seduce him succeed only after a daring striptease before the keyhole of his connecting room and a final confrontation at a distant rendezvous, where she awaits him gingerly clutching...