Elke Sommer

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.

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021
Herself (archive footage)
Elke Sommer erzählt...
2010
Self
Life Is Too Long
2010
Alfis Mutter
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004
Self
The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
2002
self
Flashback
2000
Frau Lust
The Last Days of Sharon Tate
1999
Alles nur Tarnung
1996
Jutta
Twisted Sex Vol. 5
1993
(archive)
Severed Ties
1992
Helena Harrison
Training Your Best Friend
1989
Self
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: The World's Most Exotic Vacation Resorts
1988
Self
Death Stone
1987
Kris Patterson
Jenny's War
1985
Eva Gruenberg
Niemand weint für immer
1984
Lou Parker
Lily in Love
1984
Alicia Braun
Inside the Third Reich
1982
Magda Goebbels
Der Mann im Pyjama
1981
Frau Lachmann
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
1980
Miss Pelham
The Top of the Hill
1980
Eva Heggener
The Prisoner of Zenda
1979
Countess Montparnasse
The Fantastic Seven
1979
Rebecca Wayne
The Double McGuffin
1979
Prime Minister Kura
Jamaican Gold
1979
Ursula
The Astral Factor
1978
Chris Hartman
I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses
1978
Magdalene Kruschen
That's Carry On!
1977
Professor Anna Vooshka
US Against the World
1977
Self
The Swiss Conspiracy
1976
Rita Jensen
Meet Him and Die
1976
Perrone's Secretary
One Away
1976
Elsa
Carry On Behind
1975
Professor Anna Vooshka
The Net
1975
Christa Sonntag
The House of Exorcism
1975
Lisa Reiner
And Then There Were None
1974
Vera Clyde
Percy's Progress
1974
Clarissa
One or the Other of Us
1974
Miezi
Lisa and the Devil
1973
Lisa Reiner
Die Reise nach Wien
1973
Toni Simon
Baron Blood
1972
Eva Arnold
Probe
1972
Heideline 'Uli' Ullman
Zeppelin
1971
Erika Altschul
Percy
1971
Helga
The Invincible Six
1970
Zari
The Wrecking Crew
1968
Linka Karensky
They Came to Rob Las Vegas
1968
Ann Bennett
The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
1968
Paula Schultz
Deadlier Than the Male
1967
Irma Eckman
The Venetian Affair
1967
Sandra Fane
The Corrupt Ones
1967
Lilly Mancini
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
1966
Didi
The Oscar
1966
Kay Bergdahl
The Money Trap
1965
Lisa Baron
The Dolls
1965
Ulla (segment "Il Trattato di Eugenetica")
The Art of Love
1965
Nikki Dunnay
Hotel der toten Gäste
1965
Herself
Tausend Takte Übermut
1965
Herself
The Jack Benny Hour
1965
Elke Sommer / Maria Poppenini
A Shot in the Dark
1964
Maria Gambrelli
Frontier Hellcat
1964
Annie Dillman
The Victors
1963
Helga
The Prize
1963
Inger Lisa Andersson
Who Stole the Body?
1963
Brigitte
… denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol
1963
Singer
Seduction by the Sea
1963
Eva
Bahía de Palma
1962
Olga
Sweet Ecstasy
1962
Elke
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
1962
Renate Hecker
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles
1962
Ariane
Le Chien
1962
Elle
Daniella by Night
1961
Daniella
Don't Bother to Knock
1961
Ingrid
Geliebte Hochstaplerin
1961
Barbara Shadwell
Und sowas nennt sich Leben
1961
Britta
Auf Wiedersehen
1961
Suzy Dalton
Howlers of the Dock
1960
Giulia Giommarelli
Lampenfieber
1960
Evelyne
The Warrior Empress
1960
Love, the Italian Way
1960
Greta
The Day the Rains Came
1959
Ellen
Ship of the Dead
1959
Mylène Loureau
La Pica sul Pacifico
1959
Rossana
L'amico del giaguaro
1959
Greta
The Jukebox Kids
1959
Giulia Cesari
Men and Noblemen
1959
Caterina