Elke Sommer is a German born actress, entertainer, and artist. She started appearing in films in Italy in the late 1950s. She quickly became a noted sex symbol and moved to Hollywood in the early 1960s. She became one of the most popular pin-up girls of the time, and posed for several pictorials in Playboy Magazine. She became one of the top movie actresses of the 1960s and made 99 movie and television appearances between 1959 and 2005.