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Anita Ekberg Profile
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| (Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg) |
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| 29 September 31 | is born in Malmo, Sweden |
| 51 | is crowned "Miss Sweden" |
| visits the U.S. to compete for the "Miss Universe" title and is signed by Universal-International |
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| her lover Scott Brady introduces her to famous Hollywood cheesecake photographer Bruno Bernard and asks him to promote her |
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| has an affair with Tyrone Power during the filming of her first movie, Mississippi Gambler |
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| 52 | starts an affair with Gary Cooper. Confidential covers this story of sex and alcohol. Finally, Cooper returns to his wife. |
| continues with Yul Brynner, who teaches her the pleasure of the whip, and Frank Sinatra |
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| dines with Sinatra, and Bogart and Bacall at Romanoff's |
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| declines Hughes' offer to sign with RKO |
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| Bernard introduces her to actor-director Hugo Haas, who declines her for being too sexy |
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| visits the troops in Alaska with Bob Hope's U.S.O. tour |
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| 54 | John Wayne's Batjac company offers her her first serious contract |
| July 55 | has a battle with Wayne's Batjac company, but Wayne relents, and she is more than appreciative |
| November 55 | attends the Victory Ball with Hal Hayes, one of her many beaus |
| is rushed into Arlene Dahl's part in War and Peace, to be filmed in Rome |
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| December 55 | is first-nighting with young actor Jeff Richards |
| serious about his career, Jeff Richards takes her home at nine when he's working |
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| attends Sammy Davis, Jr.'s opening at Ciro's |
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| 56 | dances barefoot at the excessive Roman birthday-party for Peter Howard, heir to the Vanderbilt fortune. The restaurant is closed by the police, and Howard is dragged out of Italy. |
| April 56 | gets more publicity than any other star in Hollywood |
| meets her future husband, British actor Anthony Steel, during a Royal Command Performance, where she's introduced to Queen Elizabeth II |
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| 22 May 56 | marries Anthony Steel in Florence, Italy |
| August 56 | refuses to pose for any more photos undressed. The square-cut emerald ring, flanked by 12 diamonds that Anthony Steel put on her proper finger, set him back $24,000, or so they say |
| September 56 | while marrying Anthony Steel in Rome, she wears her glamorous mink coat, despite the fact that it is a mighty hot day in Italy |
| had some quiet dinners for two with British actor Michael Rennie the weeks before her marriage to Tony, but they are just "good friends." She met Tony at the London Savoy and went with him to The Conqueror. |
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| May 57 | bags $6,500 from Wadsworth Home in Chicago for a three-hour publicity take |
| 58 | confesses to her mother she can't stand Steel's jealousy anymore |
| January 59 | separates from Steel |
14 May 59 |
receives her divorce in Santa Monica, charging extreme mental cruelty and testifying that Steel was insanely jealous. Steel will marry former "Miss Austria" Hannerl Melcher in 1964. |
| Early 60s | has a three-year affair with Gianni Agnelli, president of Fiat car company. To hide this affair, she flirts in public with Italian actor Franco Silva. |
| 9 April 63 | marries actor Rick Van Nutter at the town hall in Viganello, near Lugano, Switzerland |
| buys a residence on the beach of Sabaudia, Italy. She becomes pregnant, but loses the child while filming The Mongols in Yugoslavia. |
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| Van Nutter buys a silver Rolls-Royce on her account and talks her into leaving Italy and making her home in Geneva, Switzerland. She becomes pregnant again. |
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| her mother dies, and she loses her second baby |
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| 64 | has a child with Van Nutter and makes her home in Europe |
| Late 60s | when Van Nutter wants to move again to Cannes and sells her villa in Sabaudia, she looses her patience and files for divorce |
| 29 May 70 | forces Van Nutter with physical power to approve a divorce |
| Mid-70s | makes her home in Rome with two Danes, two sheep, a goat, and six ducks |
| hits the low point of her career with a nightclub act in Munich's Moulin Rouge |
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| 11 January 15 | dies at age 83 in Rocca di Papa, Italy |
| Sources: Dell's Who's Who on the Screen, Schoenheit war ihr Schicksal by Bruno Bernard, Made in Heaven by Victoria Houseman, Movie Life, Photoplay, Movieland, Modern Screen, Silver Screen, Screen Stories | |
| Recommended Books: Sch?nheit war ihr Schicksal by Bruno Bernard The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool by Chris Strodder Fifties Blondes by Richard Koper | |
| Links: Filmography The Pin-up Zone Anita Ekberg Anita Ekberg at For the Love of Opera Gloves JSR Pages: Anita Ekberg Anita Ekberg | |