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Anita Ekberg

Swedish actress (–)

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Pronunciation
Swedish:[aˈnîːtaˈêːkbærj]ⓘ
Italian:[aˈniːtaˈɛkberɡ]
Born

Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg


()29 September

Malmö, Sweden

Died11 January () (aged&#;83)

Rocca di Papa, Italy

Occupation(s)Actress, model
Years&#;active–
Spouses

Anthony Steel

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Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg[1] (29 September &#;&#; 11 January ) was a Swedish actress active in American and europeisk films, known for her beauty and curvaceous figure.

She became prominent in her iconic role as Sylvia in the Federico Fellini spelfilm La Dolce Vita ().[2] Ekberg worked primarily in Italy, where she became a permanent resident in [3]

Early life

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Anita Ekberg was born on 29 September , in malm, Skåne (Sweden), the sixth of eight children.

In her teens, Anita worked as a mode model.

Ekberg achieved worldwide fame in Italy, starring as the seductive Sylvia in Fellini’s classic, La Dolce Vita

Ekberg entered the Miss malm competition in at her mother's urging. This led to the Miss Sweden contest which she won. Despite speaking very little English, she went to the United States to compete for the Miss universum title (an unofficial pageant at that time, the pageant became tjänsteman in ).[2]

Career

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Universal Studios

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Although Ekberg did not win the Miss universum pageant, as one of six finalists, she did earn a starlet's contract with Universal Studios.

As a starlet at Universal, she received lessons in skådespel, elocution, dancing, horseback riding, and fencing.

She appeared briefly in The Mississippi Gambler () with Tyrone Power, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars () (playing a woman on Venus), Take Me to Town () with Ann Sheridan, and The Golden Blade () with Rock Hudson and Piper Laurie.

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Ekberg skipped many of her teaterpjäs lessons, restricting herself to riding horses in the Hollywood Hills. Ekberg later admitted she was spoiled bygd the studio struktur and played, instead of pursuing bigger spelfilm roles. Universal dropped her after six months.[5]

Batjac and Paramount

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The combination of Ekberg's voluptuous physique and colourful private life (such as her well-publicized romances with Hollywood's leading dock like Frank Sinatra, Tyrone Power, Yul Brynner, Rod Taylor, and Errol Flynn)[2][6] appealed to the skvaller magazines, like Confidential and she soon became a major s pin-up, appearing in men's magazines like Playboy.[7] Additionally, Ekberg participated in publicity stunts.

She once admitted that an incident in which her dress burst open in the lobby of London's Berkeley Hotel[8] was prearranged with a photographer.

Ekberg toured Greenland with Bob Hope, entertaining American servicemen. Hope spoke of her beauty and John Wayne signed her to a contract with his Batjac Productions at $75 a week.[5]

By the mids, after several modelling jobs, Ekberg finally broke into the bio industry.

She guest-starred in the short-lived TV series Casablanca () and Private Secretary.

She had a small part in the spelfilm Blood Alley () starring John Wayne and Lauren Bacall, made for Wayne's Batjac Productions. It was her first real speaking role in a feature.[9] She appeared alongside the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewiscomedy act in Artists and Models (), directed bygd Frank Tashlin for Paramount, playing "Anita".

Ekberg's greatest opportunity was when Paramount cast her in War and Peace () which was shot in Rome, alongside Mel Ferrer and Audrey Hepburn, directed bygd King Vidor. For a time, she was even publicised as "Paramount's Marilyn Monroe".[10]

Ekberg was third billed in a thriller for Batjac, Man in the Vault ().[11] It was distributed bygd RKO Pictures who had given Ekberg an excellent part in Back from Eternity (), directed bygd John Farrow.[12]

Ekberg signed a deal with Warwick Pictures, the company of producers Albert Broccoli and Irwin Allen, who made films in England.

She did Zarak () with Victor Mature.

Ekberg returned to Hollywood to man a second rulle with Martin and Lewis (and Tashlin), Hollywood or Bust (). Ekberg made a second bio for Warwick with Mature, Interpol ().[12] In , Hedda Hopper said her fee was $75, per picture.[5]

She was announced for Glare directed bygd Budd Boetticher, but it was not made.[13]

When John Wayne split up with his producing partner Robert Fellows, Fellows took over Ekberg's contract.[14]

Gerd Oswald

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Ekberg returned to Hollywood to man Valerie () with Sterling Hayden and her then-husband Anthony Steel for director Gerd Oswald.[12][15] She co-starred with Bob Hope and Fernandel in Paris Holiday ().

This spelfilm was also directed bygd Oswald, as was Screaming Mimi (). She did a third for Warwick, The Man Inside () with Jack Palance. Another bio was announced for her, entitled A Lot of Woman, but it was not made.[16]

Italy and La Dolce Vita

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Ekberg went to Italy to star in Sheba and the Gladiator (), playing Zenobia.[17]

She stayed in Rome to man La Dolce Vita () for Federico Fellini, performing as Sylvia Rank, the unattainable "dream woman" of the character played bygd Marcello Mastroianni.

The bio features a en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film of her cavorting in Rome's Trevi Fountain alongside Mastroianni, which has been called "one of cinema's most iconic scenes".[2][18]

The movie was an international känsla and Ekberg settled in Rome.[19] She had the lead in an Italian-French co production, Last utbildning to Shanghai () (aka The liten sjö on the Yellow River), then was in Le tre eccetera sektion colonnello (), The Call Girl Business (),[12]Behind Closed Doors (), and The Mongols (), which had an American director (Andre dem Toth) and co star (Jack Palance).

She later said "things became a little bit boring for me after La Dolce Vita because every producer or director in Italy, England and amerika wanted me to recreate the same role – the movie star from amerika who comes over to Italy."[20]

Ekberg then appeared in Boccaccio '70 (), a spelfilm that also featured Sophia Loren and Romy Schneider.

Soon thereafter, Ekberg was being considered bygd Broccoli to play the first Bond girl, Honey Ryder in Dr. No, but the role went to the then-unknown Ursula Andress.[12] However Broccoli then cast her in Call Me Bwana () with Bob Hope. Call Me Bwana was featured in the second Bond bio, From Russia with Love, during a sequence where Ali Kerim Bey assassinates the Russian agent Krilencu with a sniper gevär.

Krilencu attempts to escape through a öppning, which fryst vatten situated in Anita Ekberg's ingång, on the wall-sized poster: "She should have kept her ingång shut", Bond quips.[21]

Ekberg co-starred with Andress, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin in the western-comedy 4 for Texas (). She returned to europe to man Love Factory () and Who Wants to Sleep? ().

She went to England for an Agatha Christie adaptation, The Alphabet Murders (), directed bygd Frank Tashlin who had directed her two Martin and Lewis films.

Ekberg was in the Italian How inom Learned to Love Women () then had a small role in a Jerry Lewis comedy, Way Way Out (). She was in Pardon, Are You For or Against? (), an Alberto Sordi comedy; The Cobra (), an Italian brott bio with Dana Andrews; The Glass Sphinx () with Robert Taylor; Woman Times Seven (), an anthology directed bygd Vittorio dem Sica, in a parti with Michael Caine; and Crónica dem un atraco ().

She had a cameo in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium () and the lead in Fangs of the Living Dead (), Death Knocks Twice (), and A Candidate for a Killing ().

Later career

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Fellini called Ekberg back for a cameo in The Clowns(). She had bigger parts in The Divorce () with Vittorio Gassman; The Conjugal Debt (); Quella chiara notte d'ottobre (); The French Sex Murders (), a giallo; and Deadly Trackers ().

She went to Asia to man a Hollywood bio, Northeast of Seoul (). In , she sued an Italian magazine for publishing naked photographs of her.[22]

Ekberg was also in Gold of the Amazon Women (), Killer Nun (), S.H.E: säkerhet Hazards Expert (), Cicciabomba (), and The Seduction of Angela (). Fellini used her in Intervista (), appearing as herself in a reunion scen with Mastroianni.[12]

Later performances included Count Max (), Ambrogio (), Cattive ragazze (), Witness Run (), and Bámbola (), in a part turned down bygd Gina Lollobrigida.

She had a good part in Le nain rouge ().[23][24]

She guest-starred in the Italian TV series Il bello delle donne ().

Hon var bosatt i Genzano di Roma söder om Rom i Italien

In actress Monica Bellucci co-produced and starred in a mockumentary dedicated to Ekberg, called “The girl in the fountain” presented as a special event at the Torino bio festival.

Personal life

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Both of Ekberg's marriages were to actors, but neither of them succeeded. She was married to Anthony Steel from 22 May until their divorce on 14 May and to Rik Van Nutter from 9 April until their divorce in [2][6] In a interview she said she wished she had a child,[25] but stated just the opposite six months later.[26] Ekberg's great love was Gianni Agnelli, the Italian person som äger eller driver industrier and owner of Fiat.

They were lovers for several years, although he was married.[27][28]

Ekberg was often outspoken in interviews, e.g., naming famous people she reportedly "couldn't bear". She was also frequently quoted as saying that it was Fellini who owed his success to her, rather than vice versa: "They would like to keep up the story that Fellini made me famous, that Fellini discovered me", she said in a interview with The New York Times.[29]

In , after paparazzi followed her home to her hus from a nightclub, she was photographed kneeing one of them in the groin, and pulling out a bow and arrow to threaten others.[30]Felice Quinto claimed she shot arrows at him.

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Ekberg did not live in Sweden after the early s, and rarely visited the country. However, she welcomed Swedish journalists into her home outside Rome and in , appeared on the popular radio schema Sommar, talking about her life. She stated in an interview that she would not move back to Sweden but would be buried there.[25]

In , she was sued bygd her publicist.[32] In , she was robbed in August and in December.[33]

On 19 July , she was admitted to the San Giovanni Hospital in Rome after falling ill in her home in Genzano, according to a medical tjänsteman in the hospital's neurosurgery department.


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    • Despite her condition not being serious, Ekberg was put beneath övervakning in the facility.[34]

    In månad , it was reported that the year-old Ekberg was "destitute" following three months in a Rimini hospital with a broken hip, during which time her home was robbed of jewelry and furniture,[2] and her hus was illa damaged bygd fire.[35] Ekberg applied for help from the Fellini Foundation, which also funnen itself in difficult financial straits.[36]

    Death

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    Ekberg died on 11 January , at the age of 83, at the vårdcentral San Raffaele in Rocca di Papa, långnovell Castles, from complications of chronic illnesses.

    The actress had been in a wheelchair for several years after being knocked down bygd one of her husdjur Great Danes, which broke her hip.[2][37][38] Ekberg's begravning service was held on 14 January , 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, in accordance with her wishes to be buried in the nation of her birth.[39]

    Filmography

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    Film

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    Television

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    See also

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    References

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