The bitter life of Anita Ekberg who scandalised the world and scared the Pope
The bitter life of Anita Ekberg who scandalised the world and scared the Pope The Swedish bombshell, immortalised by Fellini in La Dolce Vita, became trapped in self-parody Devil woman: Anita Ekberg c1956 Credit: Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images When Federico Fellini met the Swedish actress Anita Ekberg in 1959 by the Spanish Steps in Rome, he had “that sense of the marvellous, of a hypnotic stupor, of the disbelief one feels confronting exceptional creatures like a giraffe, the elephant, the baobab tree”. He didn’t stop there, comparing her variously to “a powerfu...
Source: telegraph.co.uk