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Elke Sommer (born 5 November 1940), born Elke Baronesse von Schletz, is a German actress, entertainer and artist who starred in many Hollywood films. ==Career== Sommer was born in Berlin to a Lutheran minister and his wife, Renata (''nee'' Topp). After the Second World War, the family was evacuated to Erlangen, a small university town in Southern Germany, where she attended the prestigious Gymnasium (high school) in Erlangen. However her father's death when she was 14 precluded further formal education, and she moved to England to be an au pair, to perfect her English and earn a living. She was spotted by film director Vittorio De Sica while on holiday in Italy, and started appearing in films there in the late 1950s. 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 (September 1964 and December 1967). She became one of the top film actresses of the 1960s and made 99 film and television appearances between 1959 and 2005, including ''A Shot in the Dark'' (1964) with Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, ''The Art of Love'' (1965) with James Garner and Dick Van Dyke, ''The Oscar'' (1966) with Stephen Boyd, ''Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!'' (1966) with Bob Hope, the Bulldog Drummond extravaganza ''Deadlier Than the Male'' (1966) and ''The Wrecking Crew'' (1968) with Dean Martin; Sommer was the leading lady in each of these films. 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 skits 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 1973-80. 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 oft-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 star in additional scenes that were inserted into the film by its producer, against the wishes of the director. In 1975, Peter Rogers cast her in the British comedy ''Carry On Behind'' as the Russian Professor Vrooshka. She became the ''Carry Ons''' highest paid performer, at £30,000 (an honour shared with Phil Silvers for ''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. Sommer also performed as a singer, making several albums. She provided the voice for Yzma in the German release of ''The Emperor's New Groove''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elke Sommer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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