Elke Sommer, star of 1960s comedies and spy films, dies at 85

Elke Sommer in 1965 (Wikipedia) By ANITA GATES Elke Sommer, the German actress whose beauty and comic timing led to a co-starring role with Peter Sellers in the slapstick Pink Panther sequel “A Shot in the Dark” and in other Hollywood films of the 1960s opposite Paul Newman and Bob Hope, died last Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 85. The death was confirmed by Erwin Schneider, a friend of Sommer’s. Sommer was only 23 but had already appeared in more than two dozen movies, most...