Anita Ekberg

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Details

Nationality:
Swedish
Birthdate:
09/29/1931
Birthplace:
Malmo, Sweden

biography

Curvaceous and statuesque, Anita Ekberg utilized her natural attributes to win the Miss Sweden contest in 1951. She traveled to the USA to compete in the Miss Universe pageant and remained in America where she first found work as a model. Hollywood eventually beckoned but the studios and filmmakers cast the voluptuous, husky-voiced blonde more for her looks than for her talent in such forgettable films as "Abbott and Costello Go to Mars" (1953) and "Zarak" (1956). Her one real shot at playing a three-dimensional character was in King Vidor's "War and Peace" (1956) but significant follow-up Continued

Credits

The Red Dwarf
Countess Paola Bendoni
1999
Federico Fellini's Intervista
Herself
1984
La Dolce Vita
Sylvia Rank
1960
The Golden Blade
Handmaiden
Dolce Pella di Angela
Actor
Ambrogio
Clarice
War and Peace
Helene
Way... Way Out
Anna
Woman Times Seven
Claudie
Cicciabomba
Actor
Artists and Models
Anita
Blood Alley
Wei Long
Boccaccio '70
Anita
Bambola
Mama Greta
Four For Texas
Elya Karlson
Fellini
Herself
Paris Holiday
Zara
Il Conte Max
Marika
Hollywood or Bust
Herself
The Alphabet Murders
Amanda Beatrice Cross
Call Me Bwana
Luba
Pickup Alley
Gina Borger
The Man Inside
Trudie Hall
Valerie
Valerie
The Glass Spinx
Paulette
Screaming Mimi
Virginia Wilson
Behind Closed Doors
Olga Dubovich
Sign of the Gladiator
Zenobia
Fangs of the Living Dead
Actor

milestones

Year
Milestone
1951 
Named Miss Sweden
1951 
Moved to L.A.
1951 
Film acting debut in "Terras foster No. 5"
1951 
Went to America to compete in Miss Universe contest
 
Worked as model
Continued

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