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...secret was so intimate that she confided it to none but the London Daily Mail, the London Daily Sketch and their 3,000,000 readers. After four years of wedlock, Swedish Starlet Britt Eklund, 25, was parting with Comedian Peter Sellers, 42. The frantic pace of traveling with Peter was what did it, she said. "It might sound fabulous, but you can't imagine how exhausting it is transporting a baby, a nanny and all your possessions all over the world. I always travel with my tape recorder, radio, camera, ten framed pictures of my family, my very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 14, 1968 | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

...matador, a flop as a troubadour, he has decided to leave the corrida and seek a stage career. Down to his last peseta, he desperately accepts a dare by the local impresario (Adolfo Celi), who agrees to book him into his theater on one condition: Sellers must seduce Britt Eklund (Mrs. Peter Sellers offstage), an ice-cold big-league golddigger whose favorite phrase is "Mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blue Matador | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

Around town, Sellers earns the sudden sobriquet of "Bobo"-Spanish for fool. After all, has not Eklund newly milked one victim for a luxurious pad and bilked another out of a Maserati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blue Matador | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

Posing as the lackey of a nonexistent count, Sellers persuades the senorita to wait with him evening after evening for the aristocrat to arrive. Out of bore dom, Eklund endures him, then tolerates him, and at last-her cool melted by champagne-falls in love. The morning after Sellers wins his wager, he confesses all in an orgy of guilt. Raging, the seducee marches him at shotgun point to a bathtub full of cerulean stain. Bobo is last seen in a bullfight poster proclaiming his indisputably unique credentials as "The Singing Blue Matador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blue Matador | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

Born. To Peter Sellers, 39, kinetic British comedian (30 films in ten years, among them Dr. Strangelove, A Shot in the Dark), and Second Wife Britt Eklund, 22, blonde Swedish screen starlet: a daughter (his third child); in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 29, 1965 | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

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