thank you very much welcome back to the program we're all very excited about the appearance of
our first guest on the show tonight aren't we Paul yes indeed yep can you see her over there
I can yeah it looks terrific it does look great yeah it's good to see her uh as a kid I spend
many sleepless nights thinking of our next guest scandali clad in such films as trapeze Solomon and
sheba strange bedfellows and beat the devil ladies and Gentlemen please welcome Gina alola Brigida
foreign nice to see you thank you very much for being here now now do you mind can I would you
would you consider marrying me would that be all right but I'm a single available but see
I want you to be my wife I I will think about it all right because to me it's like blonde
well this is not really blue eyes blue eyes every time I see you yeah yeah uh
you know you never know in life you know I was uh
there's two different things there isn't it yeah yeah but you know my English is
good but not as good as yours well I have trouble from night to night myself but you
see Gina what I want to be able to do I want to go around to people and say how do you do
I'm Dave Letterman this is my wife Gina Lola Brigida because I think we will make
a lot of noise yeah exactly but we at for for once I would get respect in this town
no I think that you're doing a well oh well you're very popular with children and actually
not just children young young young people yes and uh you know when I
when they call they told me I was a guest in a friend house and the children you know they got
the telephone con and said you know they want you for a show you must do it you you know they were
so convincing and I'm here because they wanted the tickets uh to come here so they are all here where
are they I don't know five you know there are here well they're all here yes uh now tell me about
your name does it mean anything Lola Brigida it's such a uh flowing lyrical rhythmic it's a it's a
very long name but is my real name I didn't invent it I couldn't you know how can you invent the Lolo
bridge that is impossible but when I did one of my first movie that was from Fallout tulip with
Gerard Philippe what was the name of the film what does that mean in English oh it's a flower tulip
[Laughter] uh was a very very big success but at the beginning you know the producer said to me
perhaps you have to change your name because Lalo it means um I didn't say what needs a beautiful
breast I say okay change it change it but was you know too late they already had the names on on us
on a film you already had your breasts so what could you do [Applause] um change that no so
kept my name remember Michigan State next week we've got to be ready for Michigan State
uh how did you become an actress well you started when you were just a young girl didn't you when
you're in yes I was at school uh art school I was studying painting this is in Rome you're from
Rome born and raised in Rome uh no but near Rome but anyhow I uh after the war I was Rob starting
painting and they just stopped me on the street and they asked me to do movies who did this who
did that wasn't one director and then another time was another director so I started for curiosity I
like to yeah I'm very curious about life and a different experience so I said why not to try
and I started as an extra I got one dollar a day and then you know it's tender for uh for uh you
know an actress I I was analyzed a standard yeah yeah one one week I was fired because the actress
was older than me and I was a better looking and the lighter so she said it's better to get rid of
her so I went on on a hairdressing so I learned a lot of business yeah by the way I had a dog
I have many dogs a German Shepherds did you read this one earlier yeah oh yes yes beautiful dog he
says hello to him first and then to me you know why you know the dogs are very you know they are
very important my dog he was an actor too he got 300 dollars a day he did better than me because I
had just the one dollar wow the dog was an actor and got 300 bucks a day yeah he was uh one uh he
was a German Shepherd number one strong uh German Shepherd of the German police I always get my dogs
in Germany they are very they're very nice oh yeah they can be very dangerous I think that's
how I describe the German police they're very very nice uh we have to do a commercial and then
we'll be right back all we want out of Eugena is 20 more minutes of basketball can you do it
Gina Lola bridge is here who has consented to marry me so don't be
surprised when you get that Christmas card from Dave and Gina [Laughter]
publicity for a film uh you and Yul Brenner Solomon and sheba yes yeah what was did you
get along pretty well with the Yul Brynner I hated him at first because
um he was uh I mean I had a baiting a scene with a bath bathing senior and he was with a camera
first I did them Solomon was an amateur photographer he could hide the camera under
the robe you know but before was Tyrone Power and he died in the film so we had to reshoot all the
scenes oh is that right yeah so Yul Brenner took over for Tyrone yes he took over so I hated him
at the beginning because I loved Tyrone Power he was very nice uh and I guess this this is uh
authentic biblical attire oh that we had fun with the dance we had the fun with the dance uh what
was the film uh did you work with the Humphrey Bogart did you work with well that was my first
one was uh bitter devil Beat the Devil yes it was cell snake producing it with Jennifer Johnson uh
Bogart Peter Laurie Robert Morley was John Houston and the Truman Capote riding it through my gapod
fall in love with me believe it or not he instead of writing for Jennifer Jones he was there you
know thriving for salesnick he liked me so much he was writing me so many lines you know yeah so uh
cell snake said perhaps it's better we get rid of her because also you know he didn't like uh that
I was young and beautiful so he said well when you show up people just drop like flies don't
they just what never mind I'm saying I want to understand I know you just you you put a
lot of people out of work because you show up and they say good morning no no what was uh Humphrey
Bogart like did you get along he was very funny my English at that time was obviously worse than
now I couldn't understand uh so much so he liked you know to play with me you know so he was saying
you no he had he had a Lauren Bacall there so don't think he apparently he was uh just flirting
with you I guess he's teasing you teasing that's the right word yeah and he was you know speaking
uh very angry in English with me and I thought that he was angry with me and then of course was
a big laugh when I was really scared so at the end I understood and I played in Italian with
him and I walked out of the set he was a producer so he really got scared oh so then you threw your
own little foot I gave it to him back and in the evening I remember Truman Capote Robert Morley
John Houston uh Bogart obviously they had after dinner they like to fight really fight with you
know actually hitting one another with her eating yes they would be drinking and fighting as well
or just it was not just a drink it was just they liked the big they had a good time yeah I had a
good time too so I didn't fight they fight and but that I remember every morning walking out
down the steps you know singing loud and he had always another scarf because through my Capote was
the molest Truman Capote smallest right he won he would he would punch Humphrey Bogart and win yeah
wow that's hard to believe isn't it yes it's hard to believe it but I was there so I'm uh testimony
uh and you've got these uh these wonderful uh books of a collection of photographs that you've
made is this your second book this is no that's just a catalog I did about Five Books five books
yes they're beautiful I mean the pictures in there yes photography is very much like
paintings and that's why I fall in love with the photography so much that now is not only my my
hobby but it's uh my luxury so I had to work to afford to be a photographer photographer myself
for my pleasure because you can't live as I leave as you know gain money as a photographer so I do
movies or television once in a while just to be yeah to afford to be well the pictures are quite
nice I don't know about that other stuff but the pictures are all right and and also we'd
like to red shirt you next season if you don't mind right should it doesn't make any sense so
you can so you have an extra year of Eligibility so you can continue to play for this ball team
don't worry about it we'll uh we'll be right back folks Gina Lola Bridget [Music] [Applause]