Name Eddra Gale | Role Actress | |
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Born October 16, 1921 ( 1921-10-16 ) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Movies 8½, What's New Pussycat?, The Graduate, Somewhere in Time, The Cheerleaders Collectio Similar People Clive Donner, Gianni Di Venanzo, Richard Talmadge, Jeannot Szwarc, Federico Fellini | ||
Eddra Gale (16 July 1921, Chicago, Illinois – 13 May 2001, Deming, New Mexico) was an American actress and singer of Czech descent.
Originally an opera singer, Gale later performed as 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. Gale appeared around the same time in Tutto e Musica and Gidget Goes to Rome (also 1963). 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.
