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Elke Sommer
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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 s…
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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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Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
In der Folterkammer des Barons
as self
Life Is Too Long
as Alfis Mutter
Elke Sommer erzählt...
as Self
No Poster
Ewig rauschen die Gelder
as Mrs. von Korff
No Poster
Reblaus
as Maria Rüppel
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
as Self
The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
as self
Flashback
as Frau Lust
No Poster
Nicht mit uns
as Andrea Paretti
No Poster
Doppeltes Spiel mit Anne
as Frau Lorenz
The Last Days of Sharon Tate
What's a Carry On?
as Professor Anna Vooshka (archive footage) (uncredited)
No Poster
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
as Self - Actress
Alles nur Tarnung
as Jutta
Twisted Sex Vol. 5
as (archive)
Severed Ties
as Helena Harrison
Training Your Best Friend
as Self
No Poster
Himmelsheim
as Helga Münzel
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: The World's Most Exotic Vacation Resorts
as Self
Death Stone
as Kris Patterson
No Poster
Hollywood Ghost Stories
as Herself
Jenny's War
as Eva Gruenberg
Niemand weint für immer
as Lou Parker
Lily in Love
as Alicia Braun
Der Mann im Pyjama
as Frau Lachmann
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
as Miss Pelham
Jamaican Gold
as Ursula
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Countess Montparnasse
The Double McGuffin
as Prime Minister Kura
The Fantastic Seven
as Rebecca Wayne
I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses
as Magdalene Kruschen
The Astral Factor
as Chris Hartman
That's Carry On!
as Professor Anna Vooshka (archive footage)
US Against the World
as Self
No Poster
Nicht von gestern
as Billie Dawn
Meet Him and Die
as Perrone's Secretary
The Swiss Conspiracy
as Rita Jensen
One Away
as Elsa
The Net
as Christa Sonntag
Carry On Behind
as Professor Anna Vooshka
The House of Exorcism
as Lisa Reiner
Lisa and the Devil
as Lisa Reiner
And Then There Were None
as Vera Clyde
Percy's Progress
as Clarissa
One or the Other of Us
as Miezi
The Journey to Vienna
as Toni Simon
Baron Blood
as Eva Arnold
Probe
as Heideline 'Uli' Ullman
No Poster
Perlico - Perlaco
Zeppelin
as Erika Altschul
Percy
as Helga
The Invincible Six
as Zari
The Wrecking Crew
as Linka Karensky
They Came to Rob Las Vegas
as Ann Bennett
The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
as Paula Schultz
Mondo Hollywood
Deadlier Than the Male
as Irma Eckman
The Corrupt Ones
as Lilly Mancini
The Venetian Affair
as Sandra Fane
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
as Didi
The Oscar
as Kay Bergdahl
The Jack Benny Hour
as Elke Sommer / Maria Poppenini
Tausend Takte Übermut
as Herself
The Money Trap
as Lisa Baron
The Art of Love
as Nikki Dunnay
Hotel der toten Gäste
as Herself
The Dolls
as Ulla (segment "Il Trattato di Eugenetica")
Frontier Hellcat
as Annie Dillman
A Shot in the Dark
as Maria Gambrelli
The Prize
as Inger Lisa Andersson
… denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol
as Singer
The Victors
as Helga
Seduction by the Sea
as Eva
Who Stole the Body?
as Brigitte
No Poster
Nachts ging das Telefon
as Mabel Meyer
Bahía de Palma
as Olga
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles
as Ariane
Le Chien
as Elle
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
as Renate Hecker
Sweet Ecstasy
as Elke
Café Oriental
as Sylvia
Auf Wiedersehen
as Suzy Dalton
Geliebte Hochstaplerin
as Barbara Shadwell
Don't Bother to Knock
as Ingrid
Daniella by Night
as Daniella
Und sowas nennt sich Leben
as Britta
Love, the Italian Way
as Greta
The Warrior Empress
No Poster
Himmel, Amor und Zwirn
as Eva
Howlers of the Dock
as Giulia Giommarelli
Lampenfieber
as Evelyne
The Day the Rains Came
as Ellen
Ship of the Dead
as Mylène Loureau
The Jukebox Kids
as Giulia Cesari
La Pica sul Pacifico
as Rossana
Men and Noblemen
as Caterina
L'amico del giaguaro
as Greta