Elke Sommer - Фильмы

Elke Sommer, born Эльке от Schletz, is a German-born actress, конферансье and artist, who has starred in many голливудского фильма. She was spotted by film director Витторио Де Сика while on holiday in Italy, and began appearing in films there в 1958 году. Итак that year, she changed her фамилия from Schletz to лето, which was easier to pronounce for a non-RUSSIAN audience. She quickly became a noted секс символ 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 в Playboy magazine, including the сентября 1964 and December 1967 issues. Лето became one of the top фильм актрис 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 феерия Deadlier Than the Male, The Wrecking Crew with Dean Martin, and The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz. В 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, лето sang and participated in comedy sketches on episodes of The Dean Martin Show and Bob Hope on скидки, сделано 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 года, когда Питер Маршалл что ИТС "квадрат мастер", 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. В 1972 году, she starred in two Italian horror films directed by Mario Bava: Baron Blood and Lisa and the Devil. The latter что subsequently re-edited (1975 with footage inserted) to make a different film called House of Exorcism. Лето 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. В 1975, Питер Роджерс cast her in the British comedy Carry On Behind as the Russian Professor Vrooshka.[2] She became the Carry On films' совместное 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 with her Sellers, the actress did virtually no more врио фильма в Голливуде, concentrating more on her artwork. She provided the voice for Yzma in the German release of The emperor's New Groove. Лето also performed as a singer, recording and releasing several albums.