Elke Sommer in ''Playboy'' in 1980s?

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

I remember many years ago reading an article that Elke Sommer was going to pose for Playboy. In the article (and I don’t recall the source), she said something like she was proud of the way her body had “matured.” At the time she was in her 40s. (So, no, the earlier photos don’t count.)

Anyway, I don’t know that she actually did, and I have not been able to find any reference to it.

Anyone else???

[CaveMike]

In 1970, Elke posed for Playboy, in a seven-pages pictorial photographed by her spouse containing classic images, to say the least. After shooting an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s TEN LITTLE INDIANS (with Charles Aznavour), Elke’s acting career began to lose momentum. No more big-budgeted Hollywood production, as she found herself in European B-movies not really known in North America (this mostly holds true from the eighties forward). At least, she was invited to participate in a Carry On film, CARRY ON BEHIND, playing Professor Anna Vrooshka.

From here.

[Rick]

I don’t have much to add except for a line Bob Hope used when he had Elke on a USO tour

Her parents won the Nobel prize for Architecture

Struck me as funny as hell then, and still does.