Elke Sommer

Elke Sommer, born Elke von Schletz, is a German actress, entertainer and artist, who has starred in many Hollywood films. She was spotted by film director Vittorio De Sica while on holiday in Italy, and began appearing in films there in 1958. Also that year, she changed her surname from Schletz to Sommer, which was easier to pronounce for a non-German audience. She quickly became a noted sex symbol and moved to Hollywood in the early 1960s. She also became one of the most popular pin-up girls of the time, and posed for several pictorials in Playboy magazine, including the September 1964 and December 1967 issues. Sommer became one of the top film actresses of the 1960s. She made just shy of 100 film and television appearances between 1959 and 2005, including A Shot in the Dark with Peter Sellers, The Art of Love with James Garner and Dick Van Dyke, The Oscar with Stephen Boyd, Boy Did I Get a Wrong Number! with Bob Hope, the Bulldog Drummond extravaganza Deadlier Than the Male, The Wrecking Crew with Dean Martin, and The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz. In 1964, she won a Golden Globe award as Most Promising Newcomer Actress for The Prize, a film in which she co-starred with Paul Newman and Edward G. Robinson. A frequent guest on television, Sommer sang and participated in comedy sketches on episodes of The Dean Martin Show and on Bob Hope specials, made 10 appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and was a panelist on the Hollywood Squares game show many times between 1973 and 1980, when Peter Marshall was its "Square-Master", or host. Sommer's films during the 1970s included the thriller Zeppelin, in which she co-starred with Michael York, and a remake of Agatha Christie's frequently filmed murder mystery Ten Little Indians. In 1972, she starred in two Italian horror films directed by Mario Bava: Baron Blood and Lisa and the Devil. The latter was subsequently re-edited (with 1975 footage inserted) to make a different film called House of Exorcism. Sommer went back to Italy to act in additional scenes for Lisa and the Devil, which its producer inserted into the film to convert it to House of Exorcism, against the wishes of the director. In 1975, Peter Rogers cast her in the British comedy Carry On Behind as the Russian Professor Vrooshka.[2] She became the Carry On films' joint highest-paid performer, at £30,000; this was an honor that she shared with Phil Silvers (who starred in Follow That Camel). Most of her movie work during the decade came in European films. After the 1979 comedy The Prisoner of Zenda, which reunited her with Sellers, the actress did virtually no more acting in Hollywood films, concentrating more on her artwork. She provided the voice for Yzma in the German release of The Emperor's New Groove. Sommer also performed as a singer, recording and releasing several albums. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elke Sommer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	18.831
Birthday	1940-11-05
Place of Birth	Berlin, Germany
Also Known As

A Shot in the Dark

Alles nur Tarnung

The Victors

The Wrecking Crew

The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prize

And Then There Were None

Lisa and the Devil

Baron Blood

Deadlier Than the Male

Niemand weint für immer

Frontier Hellcat

Filmlegenden. Deutsch

Elke Sommer erzählt...

The Swiss Conspiracy

The Money Trap

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!

That's Carry On!

Zeppelin

The Dolls

Carry On Behind

The Fantastic Seven

The Oscar

Percy

Percy's Progress

The Double McGuffin

Howlers of the Dock

Bahía de Palma

US Against the World

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

Training Your Best Friend

The Art of Love

Lily in Love

They Came to Rob Las Vegas

The Astral Factor

Hotel der toten Gäste

Meet Him and Die

Who Stole the Body?

Ewig rauschen die Gelder

Death Stone

The Net

Probe

Sweet Ecstasy

Twisted Sex Vol. 5

One or the Other of Us

The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau

Daniella by Night

The Last Days of Sharon Tate

Don't Bother to Knock

Jenny's War

… denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol

Geliebte Hochstaplerin

The Day the Rains Came

The Venetian Affair

Flashback

The House of Exorcism

Die Reise nach Wien

Ship of the Dead

I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses

Himmelsheim

Der Mann Im Pyjama

Himmel, Amor und Zwirn

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt

Lampenfieber

Und sowas nennt sich Leben

Café Oriental

Tausend Takte Übermut

Auf Wiedersehen

Seduction by the Sea

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz

Inside the Third Reich

The Corrupt Ones

The Warrior Empress

Nicht mit uns

The Top of the Hill

La Pica sul Pacifico

Love, the Italian Way

The Jack Benny Hour

Un chien dans un jeu de quilles

Reblaus