Elke Sommer

As of 2004, she lives in Los Angeles, California.  
 
 
. Her artwork shows strong influence from Marc Chagall. She returned to Sweden for medical treatment and later died from cancer in Stockholm, Sweden, short of her 78th birthday. While continuing to act sometimes, since the 1990s she has concentrated on painting. In her later years she lived in Rome, Italy. She performed as a singer, making several LP records. For years she worked with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, where she developed her personal style, acting with neurotic intensity like in The Silence (1963) or Cries and Whispers (1972), making her the third actress of world fame coming from Sweden (after Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman).

She became one of the most popular pin-up girls of the time, and posed for several pictorials in Playboy Magazine. She took ballet lessons as a girl and was accepted by the Stockholm Royal Dramatic Theatre's School in 1948. She quickly became a noted sex symbol and moved to Hollywood in the early 1960s. She was born as a fisherman's daughter in Sollefteå, Ångermanland in northern Sweden. She started appearing in films in Italy in the late 1950s. Ingrid Thulin (January 27, 1926 – January 07, 2004) was a Swedish actress. Sommer was born as Elke Schletz in Berlin. ISBN 0-498-02013-4.

Elke Sommer (born 5 November 1940) is a German born actor, entertainer, and artist. Stars and Players.
London: The Tantivy Press. Cowie, Peter (1977): Film in Sweden. SBN 302-02010-1. Zwemmer Ltd (Screen Series).

A Comprehensive Assessment of the Themes, Trends, and Directors in Swedish Cinema.
London: A. Cowie, Peter (1970): Sweden 2. SBN 302-02009-8. Zwemmer Ltd (Screen Series).

to the Work of the Leading Directors, Players, Technicians, and other Key Figures in Swedish Cinema, with Credits and Plot outlines to more than seventy important Films, and Index to 1,000 Titles.
London: A. An Illustrated Guide .. Cowie, Peter (1970): Sweden 1. Il Giorno Prima / Contrôle (1987)
with Ben Gazzara, Mike Zella, Kate Nelligan, Sarah Howell, Kate Reid, Camille Dupont, Burt Lancaster.
Director: Giuliano Montaldo.