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Thanks so much for starting this thread
Your welcome!
Here is a small blurb on her from wikipedia.org, for those who aren't familiar with her:
Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (born on
September 29,
1931 in Malmö, Sweden) was a
model and
actress. A 1951 Miss Sweden -- she competed in the Miss Universe pageant -- she is best-known for her role as
Sylvia in
La Dolce Vita, directed by the late
Federico Fellini.
Ethel Merman dubbed the well-endowed Ekberg (measurements 40-22-36) "the thinking man's dunce cap: two of them."
Bob Hope joked that her parents had received the Nobel Prize for architecture.
She made many movies, but few in English. Among her most prominent films are the low-budget
Screaming Mimi in 1958, Fellini's
La Dolce Vita in 1960, in which she played the unattainable "dream woman";
Boccaccio '70 in 1962, a movie that also featured
Sophia Loren; two films in 1966,
The Alphabet Murders and
Way...Way Out, the latter introducing Linda Harrison in her first movie;
Woman Times Seven in 1967, with
Shirley MacLaine; and a small role in
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium in 1969.
Ekberg was married to the British actor Anthony Steel from 1956 to 1959. From 1963 to 1975, she was married to the actor Rik Van Nutter; during their marriage, she had several miscarriages, but no successful pregnancies.
She reportedly also was romantically involved with
Tyrone Power,
Marcello Mastroianni,
Errol Flynn,
Yul Brynner,
Frank Sinatra, and
Gary Cooper; she also had a three-year affair with the late
Fiat chairman
Gianni Agnelli.
She has lived alone in
Rome, Italy for many years.
Unfortunately as she got older she became heavier and her career started to dwindle...
She is such a gorgeous woman. Unfortunately I haven't seen La Dolce Vita yet but I have seen her in Back From Eternity (1956) and War and Peace (1956).
[sources: simplyclassics and alamy]
This is my favourite picture of Anita Ekberg. She just looks so cool and stylish.
