Anita Ekberg

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Anita Ekberg in 2007

Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (born September 29, 1931 in Malmö ; † January 11, 2015 in Rocca di Papa , Italy ) was a Swedish actress and model . In the 1950s she was considered a sex symbol .

Life

Ekberg became Miss Sweden in 1950 and became known to a wider public. She had her first major success in 1953 in the films Abbott and Costello go to Mars and The Yellow Stream on the side of John Wayne and Lauren Bacall . In 1956 Anita Ekberg played in War and Peace and in the same year she received the Golden Globe Award for best young actress for The Yellow Stream . She was also successful in 1960 with the films Boccaccio 70 and Raubzüge der Mongolen (Austrian The Mongols ) and especially La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life) with the famous bathing scene in the Trevi Fountain . In 1963 she was a partner of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in the western comedy Four for Texas . After that she hardly played in films worth mentioning, the only exception being Fellini's Intervista in 1986 .

From 1956 to 1959 Anita Ekberg was married to the British actor Anthony Steel and from 1963 to 1975 with the American actor Rik van Nutter . Both marriages remained childless.

She last lived in Genzano di Roma . After her house was broken into and it burned, Ekberg ran into financial hardship. She then lived in a retirement home near Rome and wrote her memoir. After a femoral neck fracture , she was forced to use a wheelchair.

Ekberg died in a hospital in Rocca di Papa not far from Rome after a long illness. Her urn was buried in the cemetery of Skanör Church in Sweden.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1952: An Adventurous Woman (Take Me to Town)
  • 1952: The World Is His (The Mississippi Gambler)
  • 1953: Abbott and Costello go to Mars
  • 1953: The Golden Sword (The Golden Blade)
  • 1955: Artists and Models (Artists and Models)
  • 1955: The Yellow Stream (Blood Alley)
  • 1956: War and Peace (War and Peace)
  • 1956: All about Anita (Hollywood or Bust)
  • 1956: Man in the Vault
  • 1956: Zarak Khan (Zarak Khan)
  • 1957: The blonde Venus (Screaming Mimi)
  • 1957: Wrong Money and Real Curves (Paris Holiday)
  • 1957: The Man Nobody Knew (Interpol)
  • 1957: The Sadist (Valerie)
  • 1958: The Man Inside
  • 1959: Under the sign of Rome (Nel segno di Roma)
  • 1960: A rapier and three lace panties (Le tre "eccetera" del colonnello)
  • 1960: Hell by the Yellow River (Apocalisse sul fiume giallo)
  • 1960: Rosemarie GmbH (Anonima cocottes)
  • 1960: The sweet life (La Dolce Vita)
  • 1961: Flowers for the accused (A porte chiuse)
  • 1961: The Mongols (I mongoli)

Trivia

In the James Bond film With Love from Moscow, there is a house wall advertisement with the Anita Ekberg film Bob on Safari ; there is an escape window exactly at the point of her mouth.

Web links

Commons : Anita Ekberg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anita Ekberg is dead , on sueddeutsche.de on January 11, 2015 (accessed on January 11, 2015).
  2. ↑ Anita Ekberg på sykehus , on daria.no of October 26, 2010 (Norwegian, accessed January 11, 2015).
  3. ↑ Swedish 'Dolce Vita' star begs Fellini fund for cash ( Memento from April 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), on thelocal.se from December 23, 2011 (English)
  4. ↑ Anita Ekberg, mercoledì i funerali nella chiesa evangelica luterana ( Italian ) In: Corriere di Roma . January 11, 2015. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Ekberg, Anita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ekberg, Kerstin Anita Marianne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Malmo
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 2015
Place of death Genzano di Roma