Anita Ekberg, Star of 'La Dolce Vita,' Dies at 83

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Source: Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo

Anita Ekberg, who parlayed a Miss Sweden title into an acting career which peaked with her performance as Sylvia, an unattainable dream woman, in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, has died.

She was 83 and died in a hospital outside of Rome. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed Italian newspapers reports.

A scene from the movie in which Ekberg danced uninhibitedly in the Fountain of Trevi is one of the cinema's most sensual sequences.

One of the screen's 1950s sex symbols, Ekberg was briefly under contract with John Wayne's Tatjac Prods. She a Golden Globe Award as Most Promising Newcomer for her performance as, of all things, a Chinese woman, Wei Ling, in Blood Alley (1955), which starred Wayne and Lauren Bacall.

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[Tom_Foolery]

1. RIP...

[olddots]

2. that shot of her dancing in the fountain

Will live on .R.I.P.

[Ron Obvious]

3. An early crush...

RIP

[BeyondGeography]

4. They froze their butts off for that scene, but it was worth it

RIP Anita.

[jakeXT]

5. Ekberg as a Chinese woman, I didn't know that

https://briandanacamp.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/hollywood-looks-at-china-two-films-from-1955/

[Cleita]

7. I think Ingrid Bergman, a Swede, played a Chinese woman too in an adaptation of

a Pear Buck novel. It wasn't uncommon back then for European actors to play different races under the studio system. For some reason or the other Hollywood didn't want to hire too many other ethnicities. The funniest one was John Wayne as Genghis Khan and Susan Hayward as his 'tartar woman' in some forgettable movie about those times.

[OnlinePoker]

8. John Wayne - The Conqueror

One of the biggest controversies of this film was the filming downwind of U.S. Nuclear Test Sites and 91 of the 220 cast and crew developed cancer after the filming.

[jakeXT]

9. What ? They moved the sand into the studio ?

[blackcrow]

6. very sad the end of her life, no money no family

I read that she asked for financial help a few years ago after she had been hospitalized and someone robbed her apartment and set it on fire. Does anyone know if she received help?

[americannightmare]

10. What a fantastic beauty she was...

and La Dolce Vita is memorable in large part because of her...(though it is an excellent film in its own right, of course)

[kwassa]

11. one of my first crushes ...

I am dating myself.