Eddra Gale

Eddra Gale
Born (1921-10-16)October 16, 1921
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died May 13, 2001(2001-05-13) (aged 79)
Deming, New Mexico, U.S.
Occupation Actress, singer

Eddra Gale (July 16, 1921, Chicago, Illinois – May 13, 2001, Deming, New Mexico) was an American actress and singer of Czech descent.[1]

Life and career

Originally an opera singer, Gale later performed as a concert singer in Rome. 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.[1]

She appeared around the same time in Tutto e Musica and Gidget Goes to Rome (also 1963).[2]

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 "Genevieve" in Somewhere in Time (1980).

Death

Gale died aged 79 from complications following a stroke.[2]

Selected filmography

References

  1. 1 2 Alpert, Hollis (1986). Fellini: A Life. New York: Atheneum. pp. 162, 172.
  2. 1 2 "Eddra Gale". Variety. June 14, 2001. Retrieved April 5, 2016.


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