Fellini's tale of Roman high life starred Marcello Mastroianni as a gossip journalist named Marcello; and Ekberg as Sylvia, a glamorous Hollywood star who can't resist getting wet in the majestic Trevi Fountain during a late-night stroll. pagetypeurl = document.URL, + '' var settings = cookieSettings[cookieName]; "I'm very much bigger than I was, so what?" ctx.customSerializer(); } // ------------------------------------------------------------------- Watch the Trevi Fountain scene from the film La Dolce Vita. var ctx = this; if (prefix == undefined) { ©2020 Artnet Worldwide Corporation. prefix = 'artnet_newsletter_'; var script = document.createElement('script'); }, }); } while (i--) { function getCookie(cname, prefix) { The filming was done in late March 1959 and the water was freezing cold. // Hide the errors In 1979, she moved into a small villa in a suburb of Rome. contentType: 'application/json; charset=UTF-8', There's a perfect beach for every week of the year. That's not to mention tourists behaving badly. 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. }; In the wake of playing a small part in John Wayne's 1955 adventure film "Blood Alley" — as a Chinese refugee, no less — and appearing in the 1955 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy "Artists and Models," Ekberg won a Golden Globe as most promising female newcomer. var ca = document.cookie.split(';'); customSerializer: function(){ "I would have liked to have a child, preferably a son," she was quoted as saying. Actress Anita Ekberg, the star of Federico Fellini's 1960 movie La Dolce Vita, dies in hospital at the age of 83. According to the New York Times, the cause of death was complications related to an ongoing illness. $modal.show(); Oct 31, 2017, By var $modal = $('#ouibounce-modal'); function checkCookies() { All Rights Reserved.var w = Math.max(document.documentElement.clientWidth, window.innerWidth || 0), var generalSettings = { submit: function($form, onSuccess) { link.type = 'text/css'; "We need to favor a more respectful kind of tourism in the city's symbolic places.". //exdays*24*60*60 She had been hospitalized most recently after Christmas. function setCookie(cname, cvalue, expMinutes, prefix) {