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Anita Ekberg (born September 29, 1931 in Malmצ) was a model and actress. A 1951 Miss Sweden -- she competed in the Miss Universe pageant -- she is most known for her role as Sylvia in La Dolce Vita, directed by 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 '60, in which she played the unattainable "dream woman"; Boccaccio '70 in '62, a movie that also featured Sophia Loren; two films in '66, The Alphabet Murders and Way...Way Out, the latter introducing Linda Harrison in her first movie; Woman Times Seven in '67, with Shirley MacLaine; and a small role in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium in '69.
Anita Ekberg Filmography
Actor
• Euro Fiends From Beyond the Grave (2005)
• The Red Dwarf (1999)
• Intervista (1987)
• Gold of the Amazon Women (1979)
• S-H-E (1979)
• Killer Nun, The (1978)
• French Sex Murders (1972)
• Northeast of Seoul (1972)
• If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
• Woman Times Seven (1967)
• The Alphabet Murders (1966)
• 4 for Texas (1963)
• Call Me Bwana (1963)
• Boccaccio '70 (1962)
• La La Dolce Vita (1961)
• The Mongols (1960)
• Paris Holiday (1958)
• Back From Eternity (1956)
• Hollywood or Bust (1956)
• War and Peace (1956)
• Artists and Models (1955)
• Blood Alley (1955)
• Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)
• How I Learned to Love Women
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