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...dialogue gets in his way, Hero Glenn Ford is quite persuasive as a gruff $9,200-a-year detective, blessed with "a beautiful home, the wife I want, a swimming pool, three cars and two servants." The fringe benefits have been provided by his rich missus, miscast Elke Sommer, who was obviously born to play a bauble-headed blonde who marries a man to enjoy his money instead of bringing her own. Elke makes a weak role weaker by delivering all of her lines as though she had learned them phonetically, but she at last articulates one crucial point...
German Actress Elke Sommer. But Elke sighed that the whole thing left her a little cold. "I'm very happy that I'm keeping up their morale," said she, but posing for that kind of stuff "makes you feel so silly." Well then, didn't she feel downright ridiculous about that nudie layout in Playboy last year when they showed her doing a striptease? Oh, that. "They kept asking me to pose, and the answer was always no. They went ahead anyway, using scenes from pictures I had made in Europe five years before. What makes...
...JACK BENNY HOUR (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Durable Jack is host to Bob Hope and Hike Sommer in his first show of the season...
...sermonizing last spring, "A woman's body hasn't just been created to be peered at and peered at. For me, it is something beautiful if it is breathing and alive!" With her breath coming in lively pants, German Actress Elke Sommer, 25, in Hollywood filming something called Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!, climbed out of the studio tub in a lather. Explained Elke cleanly: "This scene is a satire on the typical European film...
Flick, Flick. Ferry Porsche doggedly refuses to tie himself more closely to Volkswagen, just as doggedly refuses to go after the mass market. Porsche owners are such as Elke Sommer, Herbert von Karajan, Prince Rainier, Ingemar Johansson, Juan Carlos of Spain and Krupp Heir Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. Like Porsche owners everywhere, they flick their headlights in salute as they pass on the highway, even at 100 m.p.h. U.S. highways now boast 29,000 Porsches, and half of Porsche's production is sold in the U.S.; demand is so strong that U.S. buyers must now wait...