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, T...
Frontier Hellcat
1964
Mondo Hollywood
1967
The Journey to Vienna
1973
Carry On Behind
1975
β¦ denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol
1963
The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
2002
The Warrior Empress
1960
The Invincible Six
1970
Und sowas nennt sich Leben
1961
Lampenfieber
1960
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021
A Shot in the Dark
1964
Le Chien
1962
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: The World's Most Exotic Vacation Resorts
1988
US Against the World
1977
The Swiss Conspiracy
1976
Life Is Too Long
2010
Death Stone
1987
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles
1962
Lisa and the Devil
1973
The Astral Factor
1978
Niemand weint fΓΌr immer
1984
Alles nur Tarnung
1996
The Day the Rains Came
1959
The Jukebox Kids
1959
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
1980
The Prize
1963
The Art of Love
1965
They Came to Rob Las Vegas
1968
Meet Him and Die
1976
And Then There Were None
1974
What's a Carry On?
1998
L'amico del giaguaro
1959
Hotel der toten GΓ€ste
1965
Deadlier Than the Male
1967