Anita ekberg

Born in the Swedish city of Malmo on September 29, 1937, Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg had seven siblings. At 19 she was an attractive young blonde who drew a lot of attention because of her physique, and she won the title of Miss Sweden. When she traveled to the United States to represent her country in the Miss Universe pageant, she did not succeed, but she became a protégé of magnate Howard Hughes , who advised her on various surgeries to improve her appearance, and sent her to art classes. dramatic.

In a first stage, it only appeared as a secondary in titles such as Abbot and Costello go to Mars , The Sword of Damascus , Bloody Alley and War and Peace . Although she was not a first class actress, she became very popular by constantly hogging the covers of the gossip press, with her frivolous and scandalous behavior for the time. Comedian Jerry Lewis fell in love with her in Crazy About Anita .

She began to improve as an actress after starring in Return from Eternity , with Robert Ryan , a role for which she won a Golden Globe. But it was the Italian Federico Fellini who gave her her most outstanding role, the American star who invites us to a night bath to the journalist played by Mastroianni, shouting “Marcello, come here”, in La dolce Vita , from 1960.

The legendary director recruited her again for The Temptations of Doctor Antonio , a fragment of Bocaccio 70 , where she made Peppino’s character fall in love with Filippo when they placed an image of him in front of his house. In Interview she played herself.

From that moment on, she was hired for numerous films in Italy, such as The Great Lover , The Colonel’s Three Etceteras or The Mongols . The Spanish Bigas Luna recruited her for Bámbola , where she briefly played the owner of a restaurant, mother of the young protagonist.

In recent times, her health had deteriorated, and she was confined to a wheelchair due to her hip and leg problems. Divorced from British actor Anthony Steel , she was also paired with American Rik Van Nutter .