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.

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Dettaglio della persona

Elke Sommer

Filmografia

Uno sparo nel buio

Alles nur Tarnung

I vincitori

Missione compiuta stop - Bacioni Matt Helm

Il prigioniero di Zenda

Intrigo a Stoccolma

...e poi, non ne rimase nessuno

Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga

Lisa e il diavolo

Più micidiale del maschio

Niemand weint für immer

Là dove scende il sole

Elke Sommer erzählt...

Intrigo in Svizzera

La trappola mortale

Un bikini per Didi

That's Carry On!

Zeppelin

Le Bambole

Camping pon pon

The Fantastic Seven

Tramonto di un idolo

Il complesso del trapianto

Ma il tuo funziona... o no?

The Double McGuffin

Urlatori alla sbarra

Bahía de Palma

US Against the World

Rapina in Berkeley Square

Training Your Best Friend

L'arte di amare

Lily in Love

Radiografia di un colpo d'oro

The Astral Factor

Hotel der toten Gäste

Pronto ad uccidere

Les Bricoleurs

Ewig rauschen die Gelder

Der Stein des Todes

L'undicesimo comandamento

Probe

Dolce violenza

Twisted Sex Vol. 5

Einer von uns beiden

The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau

Capricci borghesi

The Last Days of Sharon Tate

Entrate senza bussare

Jenny's War

… denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol

Accadde sotto il letto

Il diavolo uccide così

Suspense a Venezia

Flashback - Mörderische Ferien

La casa dell'esorcismo

Il viaggio a Vienna

SOS York

I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses

Himmelsheim

Der Mann im Pyjama

Himmel, Amor und Zwirn

Lampenfieber

Una come quelle...

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt

Café Oriental

Tausend Takte Übermut

Auf Wiedersehen

Agente speciale Eva: missione Sex

La minigonna proibita della compagna Schultz

Il sigillo di Pechino

Saffo, venere di Lesbo

Nicht mit uns

La Pica sul Pacifico

Femmine di lusso

The Jack Benny Hour