BIOGRAPHY OF ANITA EKBERG

Anita Ekberg is a Swedish American and European film actress born on September 29, 1931 in Malmö, Sweden as Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg. She is best known for her role as Sylvia in Federico Fellini’s 1960 film La Dolce Vita.

As a teenager she modeled in Sweden and in the early 1950s moved to the United States, where she soon began appearing in small roles in films. Ekberg worked primarily in Italy and made about twenty films, where she became a permanent resident in 1964. She was first credited for her role as the Venusian Guard in Abbott and Costello’s Go to Mars (1953).

Ekberg won a Golden Globe Award in 1956 for New Star of the Year for his performance as a Chinese villager in Blood Alley. In 1956, Ekberg won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year for his performance as a Chinese villager in Blood Alley (1955; starring John Wayne and Lauren Bacall). Other films, in which she usually played roles showcasing her statuesque and buxom physique, include War and Peace (1956) and Boccaccio ’70 (1962).

Anita Ekberg

DEATH OF ANITA EKBERG

She died on January 11, 2015, at the age of 83, at the San Raffaele de Rocca di Papa Clinic in Castelli Romani, Italy, from complications of persistent illnesses. His funeral service was held on January 14, 2015, at the Lutheran-Evangelical Christuskirche in Rome, after which his body was cremated and his remains were buried in the churchyard of Skanör in Sweden.

HUSBAND OF ANITA EKBERG

She was twice married to actors, but neither of them succeeded. She was first married to Anthony Steel from May 22, 1956 until their divorce on May 14, 1959. She then married Rik Van Nutter from April 9, 1963 until their divorce in 1975.

MEASUREMENTS BY ANITA EKBERG

Body Shape: Hourglass (Explanation)
Dress Size : N/A
Breast-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 : 59 kg (130 lbs)

PHOTOS AT ANITA EKBERG

ANITA EKBERG LA DOLCE VITA

In Federico Fellini’s famous Italian film, restless journalist Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni) drifts through life in Rome. As Marcello deals with the overdose taken by his girlfriend, Emma (Yvonne Furneaux), he also pursues heiress Maddalena (Anouk Aimée) and movie star Sylvia (Anita Ekberg), adopting a carefree approach to life. . Despite his hedonistic attitude, Marcello has moments of quiet reflection, resulting in an intriguing cinematic character study.

First version: February 3, 1960 (Italy)
director : Federico Fellini
Music composed by: Nino Rota
Cinematography : Otello Martelli
Languages : Italian, English, German, French

ANITA EKBERG YOUNG

FILMS BY ANITA EKBERG

• 1953 The Mississippi Player
• 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 The Man in the Vault
• 1956 Zarak
• 1957 Interpol
• 1957 Valerie
• 1958 Vacation in Paris
• 1958 The Man Inside
• 1958 Mimi screaming
• 1959 Sheba and the Gladiator
• 1960 The Dolce Vita
• 1961 The Mongols
• 1961 Behind Closed Doors
• 1961 The Yellow River Dam
• 1962 Boccaccio ’70
• 1963 Call Me Lord
• 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 Strikes Twice
• 1969 Malenka
• 1970 The Clowns
• 1970 Divorce
• 1972 Dating house
• 1972 northeast of Seoul
• 1978 Killer Nun
• 1980 S*H*E
• 1987 interview
• 1991 Count Max
• 1996 Doll

ANITA EKBERG, INTERNATIONAL SCREEN BEAUTY, DIES AT 83

Updated: January 11, 2015

Anita Ekberg, who became an international symbol of lush beauty and unbridled sensuality in Federico Fellini’s 1960 film “La Dolce Vita,” died Sunday in Rocca di Papa, southeast of Rome. She was 83 years old.

The cause was complications from a long illness, said his lawyer, Patrizia Ubaldi.

Ms Ekberg had kept a low public profile in recent years. She made an appearance in 2010 at a film festival in Rome, where a new restoration of “La Dolce Vita” had its world premiere. In December 2011, it was reported that she was nearly penniless, had no family to help her, and sought financial assistance from the Fellini Foundation while living in 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 steps into the Trevi Fountain in a strapless evening dress, turns her face ecstatically towards the fountain’s cascade, and seductively calls out the character of Marcello Mastroianni, a jaded journalist, to join her – established his place in the history of cinema.

Ms Ekberg won a Golden Globe, sharing the 1956 Most Promising Newcomer award with Dana Wynter and Victoria Shaw, but most of her roles have focused on her face and figure. When she traveled overseas to entertain American troops in the 1950s, it was like a sex symbol. Bob Hope billed her as “the greatest thing to come from Sweden since the smorgasbord” and joked that her parents had won the Nobel Prize for architecture.