Elke Sommer
๐.๐.๐. ๐๐ฅ๐ค๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ซ, ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐๐๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐จ๐ “๐ ๐๐ก๐จ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ค,” ๐๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ญ ๐๐ ⠀ Elke Sommer died Wednesday, October 28, just one week shy of her 86th birthday and three months after losing her husband of 33 years, Wolf Walther. Born Elke Schletz in Berlin in 1940, she was discovered while on vacation in Italy and made her film debut there in 1959. By 1964 she had won the Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer. ⠀ She starred opposite Paul Newman in The Prize, Peter Sellers in A Shot in the Dark, Glenn Ford in The Money Trap, Bob Hope in Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!, and Dean Martin in The Wrecking Crew. TV audiences knew her from The Hollywood Squares, The Love Boat, and countless variety show appearances where she sang and did comedy sketches. She made close to 100 film and television appearances, then devoted her later years to painting.