Word: sommer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Todd Drexel's Osric, while dandyish, punctilious and well-oiled, manages for once to avoid being effeminate. Josef Sommer's handling of the First Player's ancient Roman narrative need not, I think, be quite so rhetorical...
...situation is similar in the movies. From Rome's Cinecitta to Hollywood, yesteryear's Latin and Anglo-Saxon actresses are being challenged by such talented Teutons as Romy Schneider, Elke Sommer, Nadja Tiller and Senta Berger. Eddie Fisher rebounded from Liz with the help of a Hamburger-pert, blonde Renata Boeck. Tony Curtis left Janet Leigh for dark, Munich-born Christine Kaufmann...
Paul Newman, the well-known American novelist, is also about to be laureled, but he really deserves an Ignoble Prize. For several years he has been hitting the bottle harder than the Olivetti. He is about to take a crack at Elke Sommer, a midsummer night's dream who works for the Swedish Foreign Office, when he notices that Robinson is not really Robinson. Stand back, everybody. Newman may be a lousy writer but he is a Good American. Alone he takes on several dozen mugs from Moscow. They slash at him with switchblades, they pitch...
...customers may not; they are forced to swallow an awful lot of chokers. He: "Will you marry me?" She: "Why settle for one dish when there's smorgasbord?" But now and then there are some funny lines. There is plenty of fast action, too. And there is Elke Sommer, a blizzard blonde who is just possibly the most important German export since the frankfurter. In Hollywood they call her Elke Seltzer, and she may put a fresh fizz in the neighborhood...
Speaking of women, the ladies in the balcony who go to see whether Doris Day Will should find this film adequate. Elke Sommer plays Doris' part in much the same way--minus a half inch of pancake makeup and plus a few inches elsewhere...