Her performance in Bread, Love and Dreams (Pane, amore e fantasia, 1953) led to it becoming a box-office success and her receiving a BAFTA nomination. Further she won a Nastro d’Argento award from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists for her role in the picture. Lollobrigida appeared in The Wayward Wife (1953) and in Woman of Rome (1954). T