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Anita Ekberg
Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg was born on September 29, 1931 in Malmo, Sweden. Growing up with seven brothers and sisters was not an adventure, but Anita's adventure began when she was elected Miss Sweden in 1950. She did not win the Miss Universe contest but she got a modeling contract in the United States. She quickly got a film contract with Howard Hughes's RKO that did not lead anywhere (but Anita herself has said that Hughes wanted to marry her). Instead, she started making movies with Universal, small roles that more often than not only required her to look beautiful. After five years in Hollywood, she found herself in Rome, where Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) meant her breakthrough. She stayed in Italy and made around 20 movies during the next ten years, some roles memorable, some to be forgotten. Her two marriages gave her a great deal of attention from the press. During the 1970s, the roles became less frequent, but she made a marvellous comeback with Fellini's Intervista (1987).
Anita Ekberg retired from acting in 2002 after
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Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg was born on September 29, 1931 in Malmo, Sweden. Growing up with seven brothers and sisters was not an adventure, but Anita's adventure began when she was elected Miss Sweden in 1950. She did not win the Miss Universe contest but she got a modeling contract in the United States. She quickly got a film contract with Howard Hughes's RKO that did not lead anywhere (but Anita herself has said that Hughes wanted to marry her). Instead, she started making movies with Universal, small roles that more often than not only required her to look beautiful. After five years in Hollywood, she found herself in Rome, where Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) meant her breakthrough. She stayed in Italy and made around 20 movies during the next ten years, some roles memorable, some to be forgotten. Her two marriages gave her a great deal of attention from the press. During the 1970s, the roles became less frequent, but she made a marvellous comeback with Fellini's Intervista (1987).
Anita Ekberg retired from acting in 2002 after 50 years in the m
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Anita Ekberg: 1931 - 2014
Fellini News Update: Special Edition
29 September, 2006
Fellini Icon, Anita Ekberg is 75!
The ultimate female icon of the Fellini universe, Anita Ekberg, is 75 years young today. The Swedish bombshell was born on 29 September, 1931.
Anitona, as Fellini christened her, was crowned Miss Sweden in 1950. Also known derisively as the Iceberg and Titberg, Ekberg was proud of her Nordic heritage and her, 40 - 22 - 36 measurements that undoubtedly typecast her early on. (Comedian, Bob Hope, wryly observed that, her parents should be awarded the Nobel Prize for Architecture.)
Her real-life, impromptu swim in Rome's, Trevi Fountain, photos of which were splashed across the pages of Rome's newspapers, got Fellini's attention. He cast her in the role of Sylvia in La Dolce Vita, 1960, where she basically recreated the Trevi dip with co-star, Marcello Mastroiani.
(Question: In all those intimate scenes with Mastroianni and Ekberg, did their lips ever touch?)
For Fellini, Anita was a symbol of the ultimate woman, at least from a purely physic
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