Italian actress Anita Ekberg, left, appears as Sylvia Rank and co-star Marcello Mastroianni as the journalist Marcello Rubini in Fellini's 1960 film "La Dolce Vita."
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Anita Ekberg and Anthony Steel
British actor Anthony Steel, kisses his bride, Swedish-born actress Anita Ekberg, after their marriage by civil ceremony in Florence, Italy, City Hall on May 22, 1956.
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Actress
Ekberg, who was born in Malmo, Sweden, saw her career take shape after she was crowned Miss Sweden in the early 1950s. But she shot to global fame in 1960 after playing the capricious actress Sylvia opposite Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellini's celebrated "La Dolce Vita" (The Sweet Life), about decadent high society in Rome.
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Sex symbol
Swedish-born actress Anita Ekberg and German actor Peter Alexander pictured in a scene of the film “das liebeskarussel” (The merry- Go-Round of love),1965. The film featured five feuilletons of love and sex under the direction of three German directors.
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In this Nov. 29, 1960 file photo, Swedish actress Anita Ekberg poses on the terrace of her hotel in Maratea, southern Italy.
