Actor Barbara Steele on working with Fellini and Rome in the sixties

By Barbara Steele
Updated November 28 2015 - 10:08am, first published November 23 2015 - 8:48am
Anita Ekberg as Sylvia in 'La Dolce Vita', one of the director's most famous films. Photo: Courtesy of the Independent Visions Archive with exclusive representation by MPTV
Anita Ekberg as Sylvia in 'La Dolce Vita', one of the director's most famous films. Photo: Courtesy of the Independent Visions Archive with exclusive representation by MPTV
Barbara Steele in '8 1/2' in 1963, sometimes described as one of the greatest films ever made.  Photo: Courtesy of the Independent Visions Archive with exclusive representation by MPTV
Barbara Steele in '8 1/2' in 1963, sometimes described as one of the greatest films ever made. Photo: Courtesy of the Independent Visions Archive with exclusive representation by MPTV

Arriving in Rome in 1960 was like flying straight into the sun. It was blazing, ripe, optimistic, feral, and fecund; enjoying a huge economic boom. It seemed to embrace everyone caught in its collective thrall.

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