Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg: Wonderful Photos 1931 – 2015

Portrait of Swedish actress Anita Ekberg, a former “Miss Sweden,” taken at her arrival at London, United Kingdom, airport from Stockholm on Nov. 15, 1955 to take part in a film with Victor Mature, Michael Wilding and Eunice Gayson (“Zarak Khan”). “I’ve finished with pin-up photos,” she told cameramen at the airport who asked her to take her coat off. She wears pearl and gold ear-rings, a gold bracelet with charms and a tight-fitting coat of black wood. (AP Photo)

Swedish film star Anita Ekberg visits with Swedish Consul Walker G. Danielson and Mrs. Danielson at the Foreign Press Association Awards banquet in Los Angeles, United States on Feb. 23, 1956. Miss Ekberg was picked as one of the “stars of tomorrow by the foreign reporters of Hollywood. (AP Photo)

Swedish-born movie actress Anita Ekberg arrives at Rome’’s Ciampino airport, Italy, from New York, and was met at the airport by her fiance, English film actor Anthony Steel (unseen). The couple will be married in a civil ceremony within a month in Florence where Steel is at work on a film. In this image Anita Ekberg surrounded by reporters, waves to a crowd of fans and photographers on May 11, 1956, as she walks away from the plane that brought her to Rome from New York. (AP Photo/Remo Nassi)

Swedish-born movie actress Anita Ekberg and her fiance, English film actor Anthony Steel smoke cigarettes while holding a press conference on May, 11, 1956 in a Rome hotel, Italy, and announced their plan to marry in a civil ceremony at Florence, where Steel is working on a film, between May 20 and 23, 1956. Miss Ekberg arrived earlier by plane from New York and was received at the Rome Ciampino airport by her future husband. (AP Photo/Walter Attenni)

British actor Anthony Steel, second from left, and Swedish-born actress Anita Ekberg during their wedding ceremony at the City Hall in Florence, Italy on May 22, 1956. (AP Photo/Raoul Fornezza/Walter Attenni)

The international premiere of Paramount’s “War And Peace” a Vistavision-Technicolor film version of the novel by Leo Tolstoy, has its premiere at New York’s Capitol Theater on August 21, 1956. Guest of honour at the premiere was Miss Alexandra Tolstoy, sole surviving offspring of the renowned author. The film has a cast of 18,000, topped by Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Anita Ekberg and John Mills. The Ponti-De Laurentiis production was directed by King Vidor and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. Most of the filming was at Rome, Italy. Photo shows: Countess Alexandra L. Tolstoy, youngest daughter of Leo Tolstoy, posing in the lobby of the Capitol theatre with her nephew, Ilia Tolstoy, as they look at a bookcase holding copies in many languages of the novel from which the film was made. (AP Photo)

Swedish-born actress Anita Ekberg embraces her mother in Malmo, Sweden, shortly after her arrival in her hometown, March 14, 1957. (AP Photo)

Swedish actress Anita Ekberg, wearing a chic cap-like beret and sipping a soft drink, relaxes during a break in the shooting of a scene for the Warwick films movie “The Man Inside,” in Madrid, Spain on May 7, 1958. Hollywood’s Jack Palace also stars in the film, exteriors for which are being shot in Madrid. (AP Photo)

Swedish movie actress Anita Ekberg toasts with producer Angelo Rizzoli, producer of the film “The Sweet Life” at a party during the work of the film at Rome’s Cinecitta on March 20, 1959. Anita Ekberg wears a prelate-type hat and dress she wears during the filming of “The Sweet Life.” (AP Photo/Pierluigi Praturlon)

Swedish-born actress Anita Ekberg, warmly dressed like the spectators on a cool day, waves from the top of a 1906 model automobile (Digion Bouton) with which she took part in a motorized carnival cortege in Rapallo, Italy on Feb. 8, 1959. Miss Ekberg, who is the wife of British actor Anthony Steel, is in Italy studying the script of her part in star director Federico Fellini (La Strada) new movie “La Dolce Vita” (The Sweet Life). (AP Photo/Gino Calza)

Swedish movie actress Anita Ekberg toasts with producer Angelo Rizzoli, producer of the film “The Sweet Life” at a party during the work of the film at Rome’s Cinecitta on March 20, 1959. Anita Ekberg wears a prelate-type hat and dress she wears during the filming of “The Sweet Life.” (AP Photo/Pierluigi Praturlon)

Seated for a bit of rest between scenes are from left to right: Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni holding a cigarette; French actress Anouk Aimee; Austrian-born actress Luise Rainer; Italian star director Federico Fellini; Swedish-born actress Anita Ekberg holding a cigarette and French actress Yvonne Fourneaux. Picture was made in Rome, Italy on June 6, 1959 in a shooting break of the movie “La Dolce Vita” (The Sweet Life), directed by Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni. The others in the picture have parts in the film, too – the most important one, besides Mastroianni’s, is Miss Ekberg’s. They relax on the set built up of a Via Veneto section for a gay outdoor-party scene. The movie deals with the activities of a newsman who specializes in scandal stories. (AP Photo/Mario Torrisi)

Swedish-born movie star Anita Ekberg and her partner, Italian marchese Antonio Gerini, standing at their “Lancia-Flaminia” car during the first leg of the rally, the Rome-Salerno run on June 24, 1959 with which they are participating in the Italian Cinema Rally. This picture was taken during the first leg of the rally, the Rome-Salerno run on June 24, 1959. The Italian Cinema Rally also called “The Stars’ thousand miles Race” runs from Rome, over Salerno, Catanzaro, Messina, Palermo, Catania and Mount Etna, to end at Taormina on the eastern coast of Sicily. It is divided into six legs. 23 cars have entered the race. They will be driven by Italian and foreign actresses, actors and other personalities of the movie, stage, radio and TV world, some of them accompanied by “non-professional” partners. (AP Photo/Dario Melchiorri)

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Swedish-born actress Anita Ekberg links arms with her mother and father after they arrive from Sweden at Rome’s Ciampino airfield Sept. 3, 1959. (AP Photo/Porry Pastorel)

Seated from left to right as they toast to a still better future are actresses: Chelo Alonso, Cuba; Caprice Chantal, France and Anita Ekberg, of Sweden. The toast was made in a Rome restaurant, Italy on Sept. 19, 1959, after the smiling young actresses, all of the movies, had received a “Maschera d’Argento” (Silver Mask) for their performances in the past year. The Silver Mask is kind of an Italian movie “Oscar” and is given once a year by the Rome journalists’ association. The “mask” is also presented to outstanding personalities in the fields of radio/TV, music hall, prose and others. (AP Photo/Walter Attenni)

A scene of a new Italian film, “Apocalisse sul Fiume Giallo” (verbally: “Apocalypse on the Yellow River”), being shot in the woods at Tivoli, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) east of Rome, Italy on Sept. 24, 1959. In a military jeep sit Anita Ekberg (in right background) and Franca Bettoja, the latter holding a wounded Chinese girl, played by Chinese actress Mei-Lang-Chang. Swedish-born actress Anita Ekberg plays the main female part of an American nurse, opposite French actor Georges Marchal in the part of an American journalist, while Italian actress Franca Bettoja has the role of a Catholic nun in the film. The picture tells the story of the Nationalist Chinese forces’ desperate fight against the communist forces, of the latter’s plan to blow up the dikes of the Yellow River, of an American journalist who happens to learn about this plan and eventually saves the dike from a major disaster and thus his love with an American nurse. (AP Photo/Mario Torrisi)

Swedish-born actress Anita Ekberg stands in a Chinese cart, while refugees effort to load some of their belongings upon it, in a scene of a new Italian film, being shot in the woods near Tivoli, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) east of Rome, Italy on Sept. 26, 1959. The film is called “Apocalisse sul Fiume Giallo” (verbally: Apocalypse on the Yellow River). It tells the story of the nationalist Chinese forces’ desperate fight against the communist forces, of the latter’s plan to blow up a dike of the Yellow River, of an American journalist (played by French actor Georges Marchal) who happens to learn about this plan, and eventually saves the dike from a major disaster, and thus his love with an American nurse (played by Anita Ekberg). (AP Photo/Mario Torrisi)

Swedish actress Anita Ekberg seen during shooting of a film (AP Photo/Mario Torrisi/Archiv)
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Swedish-born movie actress Anita Ekberg sits in a court room at Castrovillari, near Cosenza, southern Italy, on May 5, 1960, as she was questioned about injuries to ten persons, allegedly caused by a car in which she was participating in an “automobile rally of stars” in June 1959. In background sits the judge, Antonio Lupone. Miss Ekberg was riding in a car driven by Italian marchese Antonio Gerini, in a parade heading from Rome to Sicily. At Castrovillari a big group of fans gathered round the car during a rally halt. Police said the Marchese started to drive away while the fans were still around the car, injuring ten. Newspapers reported at the time that the fans were particularly attracted because a button was missing from Anita’s blouse at a most strategic point, but she denied that in court. The next hearing in the case will be May 12, 1960. (AP Photo)

Swedish-born actress Anita Ekberg confronts Italian freelance photographer Felice Quinto with a bow and arrow outside her villa in Rome, Italy, late at night on Oct. 19, 1960. Ekberg quarreled with the photographer claiming she had been pursued all the time from the nightclub to her home. Standing watching at left is film producer Guido Giambartolomeo. (AP Photo/Marcello Geppetti)

In this May 29, 1961 file photo, Swedish actress Anita Ekberg and Italian movie director Federico Fellini stand talking in a Rome suburb. Anita Ekberg, the Swedish-born actress and sex-symbol of the 1950s and ’60s who was immortalized bathing in the Trevi fountain in “La Dolce Vita,” has died. She was 83. Ekberg’s lawyer Patrizia Ubaldi confirmed her death Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Ivan Crosceno, File)

Swedish actress Anita Ekberg poses on the terrace of her hotel in Maratea, a small hilltown on the South Italian west coast on Nov. 29, 1960, where she is starring in a new film, “Behind Closed Doors”, opposite American actor Fred Clark and Italian actor Claudio Gora. It is an Italian picture, directed by Dino Risi, and Miss Ekberg plays the part of a woman accused of having murdered her husband. (AP Photo/Mario Torrisi)

Swedish actress Anita Ekberg is photographed in a sports car with Hollywood film producer Sydney Pink after they went nightclubbing in Rome, Italy, Aug. 11, 1961. (AP Photo/Ivan Croscenco)

Swedish actress Anita Ekberg looks coquette in a scene of the film “Behind Closed Doors”, directed by Italian Dino Risi during shooting at Maratea, on the South-Italian west coast on Nov. 28, 1960. Miss Ekberg plays the part of the woman accused of having murdered her husband. It is an Italian production. (AP Photo/Mario Torrisi)

Swedish actress Anita Ekberg and Hollywood actor Rod Taylor in a car as they leave a fashionable Rome nightclub, Nov. 20, 1961. Miss Ekberg and Rod Taylor have been seen often together in Rome. He is presently shooting the film ?The King of seven Seas?. (AP Photo/Umberto Salvemini)

Swedish actress Anita Ekberg is buried up to her neck in beach sand in a scene from the movie
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Swedish actress Anita Ekberg and Australian-American actor Rod Taylor, who plan to marry soon, are seen in San Francisco, United States on May 9, 1962, where she was visiting Taylor during location filming for his new 20th Century Fox TV series “Dateline: San Francisco.” Taylor plays the part of a newspaper columnist in the television series. (AP Photo)

Swedish-born actress Anita Ekberg and her Austrian-born American actor-husband Frederick (Rik) Van Nutter pose in the garden of her Rome villa, Italy, at the outskirts of the city on April 17, 1963, as they received newsmen there. It was the couple’s first appearance in public since their surprise marriage on April 9, 1963 in the town hall of Vignanello, a suburb of Lugano, Switzerland. Miss Ekberg will leave next month for the United States, where she will play in “Two for Texas”, a Robert Aldrich movie starring Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. (AP Photo/Mario Torrisi)

Swedish actress Anita Ekberg receives an admiring glance from a motorcyclist, as she goes shopping in downtown Rome, Italy on Nov. 29, 1963. Miss Ekberg is just back in Rome from Hollywood where she has finished her work in the movie “Four for Texas”. She is domiciled here. (AP Photo)
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Swedish-born actress Anita Ekberg chooses a bottle of wine for a lunch she and her husband, Austrian-born American actor Frederick “Rik” Van Nutter, are going to have in a fashionable Rome restaurant, Italy on Feb. 26, 1964, famed for its dishes of game (note the head of a boar on the wall, decorated with game-sausages). (AP Photo/Giulio Broglio)

Tony Randell, star of the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film “The A.B.C. Murders”, based on the Agatha Christie’ novel of the same name, gets some rough treatment from the female lead, Sweden’s Anita Ekberg, during the first days filming at the M.G.M. studious at Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, on Nov. 25, 1964. In the film Randell plays the part of the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and Anita as a clamorous blonde who helps him solve a series of bizarre murders in London. (AP Photo/Victor Boyton)
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Swedish film actress Anita Ekberg takes time out for a quick cup of tea while filming the first day’s shots in the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film “The A.B.C. Murders” based on the Agatha Christie novel of the same name, at the M.G.M. studious at Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom on Nov. 25, 1964. (AP Photo/Victor Boyton)

Portrait of Swedish actress Anita Ekberg taken on May 9, 1966. (AP Photo)

Swedish actress Anita Ekberg, donning a mini-maxi combination, strolls at Rome’s fashionable street Via Veneto, Italy on January 10, 1970, the street where Federico Fellini’s film “La Dolce Vita” (The Sweet Life) was located, in which Miss Ekberg won fame in the leading part. Miss Ekberg who now is a resident of Rome, was leaving a party for movie celebrities. (AP Photo)

Swedish actress Anita Ekberg waves goodbye to friends before boarding a plane at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on Oct. 1, 1970. Ekberg is en route to Seoul, Korea, to star in a new film being shot on location there. (AP Photo)

Famous actress from Sweden Anita Ekberg is surrounded by photographers at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, France on Thursday, Oct. 28, 1982. The actress, immortalized in the film “La Dolce Vita” is in Paris to take part in a TV program. (AP Photo/Jacques Langevin)