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Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg [1] (29 September 1931 – 11 January 2015) was a Swedish actress active in American and European films, known for her beauty and curvaceous figure. She became prominent in her iconic role as Sylvia in the Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita (1960). [ 2 ]
In Federico Fellini's 1960 film La Dolce Vita, Anita Ekberg wades into the fountain with Marcello Mastroianni. [45] In 1973, the Italian national postal service dedicated a postage stamp to the Trevi Fountain. [20] Lego is releasing a set based on Trevi Fountain. That set is set to come out on March 1, 2025. [47]
The scene in the Trevi Fountain was shot over a week in winter: in March according to the BBC, [20] in late January according to Anita Ekberg. [21] Fellini claimed that Ekberg stood in the cold water in her dress for hours without any trouble while Mastroianni had to wear a wetsuit beneath his clothes - to no avail.
As visitors' coins splash into Rome's majestic Trevi Fountain carrying wishes for love, good health or a return to the Eternal City, they provide practical help to people the tourists will never meet.
‘The saddest thing I’ve seen in Italy’: Tiny Trevi Fountain stand-in pool draws scorn Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN November 5, 2024 at 4:39 PM
The Baroque masterpiece constructed on the facade of a palace is one of the most popular sites in Rome for tourists, who strain over the crowds to throw their coins into its water.
[8] She opened a nightclub, and visually inspired director Federico Fellini by bathing in the Barcaccia Fountain in the Piazza di Spagna, just as Anita Ekberg would later do in the Trevi Fountain for the film La Dolce Vita. Fellini chose Stajano to portray one of the drag queens in the film.
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni [a] Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (28 September 1924 – 19 December 1996) was an Italian actor. He is generally regarded one of Italy's most iconic male performers of the 20th-century, who played leading roles for many of the country's top directors, in a career spanning 147 films between 1939 and 1996, garnering many international honours including two ...