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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 powerful panther playing the mischievous young girl”, “a lioness proud of her good health” and “a shark emanating the heat of a summer day”. It was as if her sexiness went beyond what was plausible for a human, and belonged rather to Nature. With her, Fellini apprehended for the first time “the platonic reality of things”. “So,” he said to himself, “ ....

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