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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Drafted into a road race for glamorous types who sped for publicity from Rome to Sicily, bosomy Cinemactress Anita Ekberg teamed up with willing Italian Cinemactor Antonio Gerini, set forth in her blue Lancia Flaminia roadster. In the southern town of Castrovillari, the couple tooled abreast of a human roadblock-a group of Anita's male partisans, who screamed, pounded on the car and tried to touch her in order to make sure that she was real. Rattled Driver Gerini tried to bulldoze his way through the idolaters, succeeded in setting off a stampede, gently bowling over a half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

Divorced. By Anita Ekberg, 27, bosomy, Swedish-born cinemactress (Paris Holiday): Anthony Steel, 39, swashbuckling cinemactor (Ivory Hunter); after three years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...Rome the bongo drums throbbed unnecessarily. Tuxedos dropped to the floor in homage. Blue-blooded Borgheses and warm-blooded entertainers stamped their feet, but hardly to get circulation going. Cinemelon Anita Ekberg had just slumped with exhaustion after dropping a shoulder strap in a loamy cha-cha-cha, and now a Turkish bellydancer was grinding away at Anita's challenge: "Let's see you do better." She did. With fundamental gesture-and no clothing save a pair of black lace panties-Haisch Nanah, 24, turned U.S. Socialite Peter Howard's birthday party for an Italian countess into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

Paris Holiday (Tolda; United Artists). "Je t'adore," Anita Ekberg murmurs throatily to Bob Hope. "I did," he replies, glancing nervously at the door of his stateroom. He'll be sorry he did. Ekberg is a sneaking budge for a counterfeit ring, and Hope is an actor who wants to produce a play that exposes her employers. Arrived in Paris ("Say, that's the biggest TV tower I've ever seen"), Hope discovers that his room opens on the very same balcony as Anita's-a coincidence that could easily prove fatal, or even embarrassing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 19, 1958 | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...wire services' turn to drool. The wire-room machines gushed juicy details from such Confidential stories as "Eddie Fisher and the Three Chippies," "Mae West's Open-Door Policy!" "Here's Why Frank Sinatra is the Tarzan of the Boudoir." "Why Tony Steel Chuckled When Anita Ekberg Said 'I Do,' " "It Was the Hottest Show in Town When Maureen O'Hara Cuddled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Putting the Papers to Bed | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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