Anita Ekberg Biography
Anita Ekberg is a Swedish actress in American and European films born on 29 September 1931 in Malmö, Sweden as Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg. She is best known for her role as Sylvia in the Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita of 1960.
As a teenager, she modeled in Sweden, and in the early 1950s she relocated to the U.S., where she soon began appearing in small parts in movies. Ekberg worked primarily in Italy and made around 20 movies, where she became a permanent resident in 1964. She was first credited for her role as a Venusian guard in Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953).
Ekberg won a Golden Globe award in 1956 for new star of the year for her performance as a Chinese villager in Blood Alley. In 1956 Ekberg won a Golden Globe award for new star of the year for her performance as a Chinese villager in Blood Alley (1955; starring John Wayne and Lauren Bacall). Other movies, in which she was generally cast in roles that emphasized her statuesque, buxom physique, include War and Peace (1956) and Boccaccio ’70 (1962).
Anita EkbergAnita Ekberg Death
She died on 11 January 2015, at the age of 83, at the clinic San Raffaele in Rocca di Papa in Castelli Romani, Italy from complications of enduring illnesses. Her funeral service was held on 14 January 2015, at the Lutheran-Evangelical Christuskirche in Rome, after which her body was cremated and her remains were buried at the cemetery of Skanör Church in Sweden.
Anita Ekberg Husband
She was married twice to actors, but neither of them succeeded. She was first married to Anthony Steel from 22 May 1956 until their divorce in 14 May 1959. She then married Rik Van Nutter from 9 April 1963 until their divorce in 1975.
Anita Ekberg Measurements
Body shape: Hourglass (explanation)
Dress size: N/A
Breasts-Waist-Hips: 40-24-36 inches (102-61-91 cm)
Shoe/Feet: 8
Bra size: 36D
Hips: 36 inches
Waits: 24 inches
Cup: D
Height: 5’7″ (169 cm)
Weight: 130 lbs (59 kg)
Anita Ekberg Photos
Anita Ekberg La Dolce Vita
In Federico Fellini’s lauded Italian film, restless reporter Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni) drifts through life in Rome. While Marcello contends with the overdose taken by his girlfriend, Emma (Yvonne Furneaux), he also pursues heiress Maddalena (Anouk Aimée) and movie star Sylvia (Anita Ekberg), embracing a carefree approach to living. Despite his hedonistic attitude, Marcello does have moments of quiet reflection, resulting in an intriguing cinematic character study.
Initial release: 3 February 1960 (Italy)
Director: Federico Fellini
Music composed by: Nino Rota
Cinematography: Otello Martelli
Languages: Italian, English, German, French
Anita Ekberg Young
Anita Ekberg Movies
- 1953 The Mississippi Gambler
- 1953 Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
- 1953 The Golden Blade
- 1955 Blood Alley
- 1955 Artists and Models
- 1956 War and Peace
- 1956 Back from Eternity
- 1956 Hollywood or Bust
- 1956 Man in the Vault
- 1956 Zarak
- 1957 Interpol
- 1957 Valerie
- 1958 Paris Holiday
- 1958 The Man Inside
- 1958 Screaming Mimi
- 1959 Sheba and the Gladiator
- 1960 La Dolce Vita
- 1961 The Mongols
- 1961 A porte chiuse
- 1961 The Dam on the Yellow River
- 1962 Boccaccio ’70
- 1963 Call Me Bwana
- 1963 4 for Texas
- 1965 The Alphabet Murders
- 1965 Who Wants to Sleep?
- 1966 How I Learned to Love Women
- 1966 Way…Way Out
- 1966 Pardon, Are You For or Against?
- 1967 The Glass Sphinx
- 1967 Woman Times Seven
- 1967 The Cobra
- 1969 Death Knocks Twice
- 1969 Malenka
- 1970 The Clowns
- 1970 The Divorce
- 1972 Casa d’appuntamento
- 1972 Northeast of Seoul
- 1978 Killer Nun
- 1980 S*H*E
- 1987 Intervista
- 1991 Count Max
- 1996 Bambola
Anita Ekberg News
Anita Ekberg, International Screen Beauty, Dies at 83
Updated: Jan. 11, 2015
Anita Ekberg, who became an international symbol of lush beauty and unbridled sensuality in the 1960 Federico Fellini film “La Dolce Vita,” died on Sunday in Rocca di Papa, southeast of Rome. She was 83.
The cause was complications of a long illness, her lawyer, Patrizia Ubaldi, said.
Ms. Ekberg had kept a low public profile in recent years. She did make an appearance in 2010 at a film festival in Rome, where a new restoration of “La Dolce Vita” was having its world premiere. In December 2011 it was reported that she was almost penniless, had no family to help her and was seeking financial assistance from the Fellini Foundation while living at a nursing home in Italy, her adopted country.
Fellini cast Ms. Ekberg in “La Dolce Vita” as a hedonistic American actress visiting Rome. A single moonlit scene — in which she wades into the Trevi Fountain in a strapless evening gown, turns her face ecstatically to the fountain’s waterfall and seductively calls Marcello Mastroianni’s character, a jaded journalist, to join her — established her place in cinema history.
Ms. Ekberg won a Golden Globe, sharing the 1956 award for most promising newcomer with Dana Wynter and Victoria Shaw, but most of her roles focused on her face and figure. When she traveled overseas to entertain American troops in the 1950s, it was as a sex symbol. Bob Hope introduced her as “the greatest thing to come from Sweden since smorgasbord” and joked that her parents had won the Nobel Prize for architecture.
Source: www.nytimes.com
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