Eddra Gale
| Eddra Gale | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 16, 1921 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died |
May 13, 2001 (aged 79) Deming, New Mexico, U.S. |
Eddra Gale (16 July 1921, Chicago, Illinois – 13 May 2001, Deming, New Mexico) was an American actress and singer of Czech descent.[1]
Originally an opera singer, Gale later performed a concert singer in Rome, Italy. Film director Federico Fellini spotted her in Milan, and cast her for the role of Saraghina, the "devil woman", in Fellini's 8½ (1963), who is used in a flashback representing the male lead's first erotic experience as a young boy.[2] Gale appeared around the same time in Tutto e Musica and Gidget Goes to Rome (also 1963).[3] Following her role in 8½,, she then appeared in the role of Peter Sellers' wife, Anna Fassbender, in What's New Pussycat? (1965), as a guest in Hotel Paradiso (1966), and in small roles in films such as Three Bites of the Apple (1967), The Graduate (1967), A Man Called Gannon (1968), I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968), The Maltese Bippy (1969), Desperate Mission (1969), and Alex & the Gypsy (1976). Her last film appearance was as the flamboyant French actress Genevieve in Somewhere in Time (1980).
Gale died aged 79 from complications following a stroke.[3]
References
- ↑ Alpert, Hollis (1986). Fellini: A Life. New York: Atheneum. p. 162.
- ↑ Alpert [url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=82w2FwgmYHMC&pg=PA172 Fellini: A life], p. 172
- 1 2 "Eddra Gale". Variety. June 14, 2001. Retrieved April 5, 2016.