Showing posts with label Anita Ekberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anita Ekberg. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

All Of Me


"They come to see only parts of Ekberg, but all of Tucker!" -- Sophie Tucker on attracting more visitors to the Paramount lot than Anita Ekberg 


Friday, March 9, 2012

Bust Up


Shirley Eaton

In 1964, Goldfinger briefly made a sensation out of Shirley Eaton, whose nude, spray-painted body remains an iconic screen image. With typical British reserve, Miss Eaton gave her opinions of her fellow sex symbols to columnist Earl Wilson. Hollywood's bombshells must have been eager to send this bundle back to Britain after hearing these cheerful little earfuls:


"I don't want to be a sex symbol, or anything stupid like that...I mean perfectly terrible symbols like...Jayne Mansfield. [She's] laughed at."



"Anita Ekberg's even worse... She has a hard, brittle face -- and I don't think she's conspicuously talented."



"Carroll Baker? If that's going to be the new American sex symbol, I feel sorry for the American woman!...She wears a low dress and a big fur, but she's like a little housewife."


"People have been...saying really terrible things about Elizabeth Taylor. How she shouldn't wear bikinis, things like that. I can't bear people who are always downing people, can you?"

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Battle of the Bulges


"In comes Lollobrigida, in August, with a copy Chanel suit. Black. Wool. And boots. In August. And lots of jewels. I always call her a Christmas tree." - Anita Ekberg

Saturday, October 23, 2010

The Fundamental Things Apply


Anita Ekberg and Clarence Muse in the television series version of Casablanca (1955-56)

Friday, December 11, 2009

Only 13 Shopping Days Left!


Thank goodness Anita Ekberg is here to help!

If it'll keep us Young & Pretty, we'll take the Hormone Hand Lotion, please.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009