La Dolce Vita actress Anita Ekberg dead at 83 following 'a series of illnesses'

The Daily Mail ^ | 01/11/15 | MAIL ONLINE REPORTER

[mass55th]

Thanks for the Ping. RIP Miss Ekberg.

[SevenofNine]

Ping a roo Bender

[wally_bert]

RIP as well Miss Ekberg.

[roadcat]

Interestingly, when I did the search for that photo (I actually recall seeing it at the time, my dad had a subscription for a year) it brought up so many similar pictures from that period.

I recall seeing a picture of Anita Ekberg glaring at Gina Lollobrigida while they sat at a table in beautiful gowns with other stars because Gina was hunched over with a nip slip. That's when I was a boy. Back then the women were gorgeous and tantalizing.

[hlmencken3]

Sounds like the Sophia Loren - Jayne Mansfield photo.

[roadcat]

Could be, my memory is dim looking so many years back.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The poster for "Call Me Bwana" prominently featuring Anita Ekberg (and her mouth) played a pivotal part in a key scene in "From Russia With Love". RIP.

[GOPsterinMA]

She was great in “La Dolce Vita”.

[Impy]

She was “vacker”. (Seriously Swedish language?)

RIP.

[xp38]

That was in house advertising. Movie was produced by the Bond production company. In the book it was a Marilyn Monroe movie. While she wasn’t ever a Bond girl she was married at the time to Rick Van Nutter who played Felix Leiter in Thunderball.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yeah, I’m aware it was a pretty blatant plug for another Broccoli-Saltzman picture (when I finally got around to seeing it, it was a pretty big Bob Hope stinker). One could still say Anita was a de facto Bond girl via that poster “appearance” (and explicitly mentioned by Pedro Armendariz’s Ali Kerim Bey character).

[KC_Conspirator]

I totally remember that Bond scene.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Kerim Bey: - "She has a lovely mouth, that Anita."

[xp38]

Ok....but that is stretching it a bit. :)

[fieldmarshaldj]

I actually didn’t recall that she had been married to Van Nutter (I thought he made for a rather subpar Leiter in “Thunderball”). That was her second and last husband. She never did have any kids.

[GOPsterinMA]

In her prime, WB until I needed an IV.