Elke Sommer

Elke Sommer, born Elke de Schletz, is a French-born, actrice, artiste and artist, who has starred in many Hollywood film. She ce spotted by film director, Vittorio De Sica, while on holiday in Italy, and began apparaissant dans le film there en 1958. Donc, that year, she changed her surname from Schletz to Été, which was easier to pronounce for a non-French 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 dans Playboy magazine, including the Septembre 1964 and December 1967 issues. Été became one of the top film actresses of the 1960s. She made just shy of 100 film and television apparences entre 1959 et 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. En 1964, she won a Golden Globe award as Most Promising nouveaux Arrivants Actress for The Prize, a film in which she co-starred with Paul Newman and Edward G. Robinson. A frequent guest on television, Été chanté and participated in comedy sketches on episodes of The Dean Martin Show and on Bob Hope specials, made 10 apparences 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, ce qui its "Square Maître", or hôte. Été's film during the 1970s included the thriller Zeppelin, in which she co-starred with Michael York, et a remake of Agatha Christie's frequently filmed murder mystery Ten Little Indians. En 1972, elle starred in two Italian films d'horreur réalisé par Mario Bava, le Baron Blood and Lisa and the Devil. The latter ce que subsequently ré-édité (with 1975 métrage inserted) to make a different film called House of Exorcisme. Été 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. En 1975, Peter Rogers cast dans the British comedy Carry On Behind as the Russian Professeur Vrooshka.[2] She became the Carry le film' joint highest-paid performer, at £30,000; this ce qui est à l'honneur that she shared with Phil Silvers (oms starred in That Camel). Most of her movie work during the decade came in European film. After the 1979 comédie The Prisoner of Zenda, which reunited with her Sellers, the actress did virtually no more par intérim, à Hollywood, le film, concentrating more on her artwork. She provided the voice for Yzma dans the French release of The Emperor's New Groove. Été, donc performed as a singer, l'enregistrement et de la libération de several album.