Cook Islands 5 Dollars Silver Coin 2012 Anita Ekberg, Hollywood Legends
Commemorative issue: Hollywood Legends Series - Bernard of Hollywood
Despite obscurity and lack of funds, Bruno Bernard (1912-1987) set up his first darkroom in the basement of his Hollywood apartment in 1940. Shortly thereafter, he moved his studio to the famous Sunset Strip. “No one knew the name Bernard, but they all knew Hollywood“, and hence the optical trademark signature Bernard of Hollywood, which ensured the image of glamour visually for decades, was created.
Bruno Bernard was considered as "Rembrandt of photography" and the “The king of Hollywood glamour” and Marilyn Monroe’s discoverer. In 1984 Bernard was the first still photographer to be honoured with an Oscar at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Obverse: Head of Queen Elizabeth II with tiara facing right.
Lettering: ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS 5 DOLLARS.
Engraver: Ian Rank-Broadley.
Reverse: Anita Ekberg photograph by Bruno Bernard and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Motion Pictures category at right (Classic film camera representing motion pictures).
Lettering: HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS ANITA EKBERG 2012.
Value: 5 Dollars = 5 New Zealand Dollars.
Metal: Silver (.925).
Weight: 25 g.
Diameter: 38.61 mm.
Shape: Round.
Mintage: 2500 pcs.
Partially coloured on relief.
Hollywood Legends
Brigitte Bardot Marlene Dietrich Ginger Rogers Anita Ekberg
Anita Ekberg
Anita Ekberg (Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg), (born September 29, 1931, Malmö, Sweden — died January 11, 2015, Rocca di Papa, Italy), Swedish-born actress who emerged as an international sex symbol for her portrayal of an irresistibly alluring American movie star in Federico Fellini’s La dolce vita (1960), in particular for a scene in which she waded into Rome’s Trevi Fountain, clad in a low-cut black evening gown, and summoned the film’s protagonist, played by Marcello Mastroianni, to join her. Ekberg modeled as a teenager in Sweden, and in the early 1950s she relocated to the U.S., where she soon began appearing in small parts in movies. Her first credited role was as a Venusian guard in Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953). In 1956 Ekberg won a Golden Globe award for new star of the year for her performance as a Chinese villager in Blood Alley (1955; starring John Wayne and Lauren Bacall). Other movies, in which she was generally cast in roles that emphasized her statuesque, buxom physique, include War and Peace (1956) and Boccaccio ’70 (1962).