Elke Sommers

Oh Zsa Zsa, are you still bitter that my royal title is a real one, unlike your fake "Prinzessin von Anhalt" one?!

More like Alkie Sommers!

Not as sad as you messing up her name, OP.

OP thinks she is the only person in the world to not get old.

OP, she's 76. Do you think you will look any better at that age?

Gawd the superficiality of some queens is astounding. Can't wait to see some of you at seventy looking desperately at younger men who look down at you.

Is she still alive? 40 years ago when I was a teenager a good friend of my parents was a good looking, but struggling actor. Sometimes he got small roles in german TV or in travelling theater productions. He was always good fun. Then rumours started that bis new love affair is Elke Sommer. Which was true and a huge story for us. It must be in the late 70's and she must be for some reasons back to Germany doing boulevard. The relationsship didn't last long, but I remember meeting her one or two times.

Nice outfit!

Everything I want in an aging sexpot, down to the distended midriff and and sagging breasts.

Ugly

She's okay, just needs to dress down a bit. Diaphanous is no longer her friend. And go down a few shades of blond.

One of the sexiest ladies of the mid 60s, but perhaps a bit too much sun. They didn't know any better back then.

She looks like total shit.

....

I think she looks just fine.

One of the IT girls of the 1960s

That face looks 90 yrs old. Not 76.

Yes she looks 90 not 76.

She makes Ethel Kennedy look good.

There is not one photo of her where she genuinely smiles. Her hair is atrocious.

"Very sad". Why? This isn't the 1960's anymore and she got older - 76 now. Is that a crime? Only to superficial people.

Loved her in the 1960s when I was a kid. Of all those European types that invaded Hollywood back then, Romy, Claudia, Capucine, etc., I thought she was the sexiest and also quite funny in comedies. She had that distinctive hairdo with the bangs and upswept curls.

I saw her live in TAMARA, a mystery extravaganza at The Armory in which the audience followed the actors from room to room and were served a banquet at the end of the show, in NYC in the early 90s.

She still looked like I remembered her, more or less, but her acting was horribly stiff.

German women do not tend to age well. Not sure if it's their love of the Sun and alcohol but they just wrinkle up very quickly. Look at Claudia Shiffer. Once the top model of her generation and has aged horribly.

German women do not tend to age well.

Shoving people in ovens does tend to age you.

Shes aged R23, but I wouldn't say horribly.

Nadja Auermann is still very stylish, she always had extraordinary looks and she can still work it today.

[quote] German women do not tend to age well.

We may age horribly, but we're very, very long-lasting.

She looks like any 76yo with fair skin - who spent too much time in the sun - and is fond of a glass of wine - and probably smoked/still smokes.

If she toned down the outfit and makeup she'd probably look better - as it is - she looks like a lot of those middle aged euro women who haven't learnt to dial it back a little to soften the edges. They think the bright blonde mane and fire-engine red lips are still as sexy as when they were young - when really they come across as terribly harsh and drag queen-Ish.

But who are we to cast judgement? Just cos we would feel more comfortable looking at her as more matronly and grandmotherly - doesn't mean she goes for that look. Her currency was her sex-bomb persona - and that's how she's always presented in public. Good luck to her!

Remember seeing pics years ago of a ninety-something Leni Riefenstahl - in vanity fair I think - still posing like a sex goddess - in body-stocking type outfits...

Remember, she was in her nineties. But holy cow - age wasn't gonna stop her! The old Nazi still knew how to sell it.

Ya gotta admire their chutzpah!

She looks far better than her granddaughter Suzanne.

I find that the older i get, the more tolerant I am of older people who don't "dress their age." All the same, I think her current style doesn't do her any favors. But if it makes her happy....

Marlene Dietrich was a German woman who always dressed appropriately for her age.

I remember her back on the talk show circuit (60s) talking about her haunted house in LA.

She's entered Joan Collins territory.

Compare Claudia to Cindy, Christy, Linda and Naomi, and she's aged the worst. Yes, they have all aged but not as badly as Claudia. Kate Moss being the exception be we know why she looks a mess.

R28, have you ever heard of Miss Chris Owens? She's a showgirl and the owner of the Chris Owens Club on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. She's at least 85, and she looks sort of like the Madame puppet, but she works her looks and dares you not to like them.

FEEL THE HEAT of Chris Owens

Elke Sommers? What the fuck kind of name is that?

Chris Owens is like any other drag show here in Palm Springs or Cathdral City. Cringe worthy.

Chris when she was young. She was considered naughty in her heyday, although she wasn't a stripper -- she just sang and danced in sexy costumes.

Somebody here once compared her to Dixie Wetsworth, the extreme cougar character on MadTV.

That's a really stupid hat that she is wearing!

Leni Riefenstahl serving tree-trunk face

Golden-age B-actress Anne Jeffreys, 94, shows how to do it right. She's obviously had some work done over the years, but she looks elegant and age-appropriate.

Isn't Anne Jeffreys Mrs. Kirk Douglass?

R43, she's the widow of Robert Sterling and they starred in tv's "Topper"

[quote] but she looks elegant and age-appropriate.

What's that mean?

Kick me again and I'll really give you something to cry out in pain about, R24

it's Elke Sommer, not Sommers, OP!

If you've got a paunch like that would it kill you to cover it up a little?

Beats me r37 ......

Elke's daughter, looking dazzling.

She looks like a 70 something woman. Not so bad . Her outfit is silly yes but it shows she still has a little life in her and some spirit. I like her.

Raquel is the exact same age as Elke. Just saying.

Raquel is had a lot of work done R52. It's great work and I would love to know who her doctor is.

*has had

So has Elke.

She looks like David Bowie in drag

^^You probably look like Jagger in drag.

That is a retouched photo of Raquel and she's wearing a wig. Plus she's had a ton of plastic surgery.

June Whitfield appears to be one of the most genetically blessed older women. In the original AbFab episodes back in the 1990s she was 70 years old, but looked 50. In the recent movie she was 90 years old, but looked 70.

Fuck your "age appropriate".

Elke is a diva and looks great for her age!

Viel dank.

Alchi Sommer

OP put the reference in to Zsa Zsa. Now this is good shit. Elke won a 3.3 million libel award against her. The feud started at Circus of the Stars where ZZ rode a horse and Elke noted "Poor horse." ZZ said Elke sells hand knit sweaters for $150 and then said "Millions of women knit. What's so wrong in America if you're broke." Wow, the claws were out on that one.

Sexy-hag bump

Dont know what you queens are pissing about. I'd hit it.

All this blather about nationality/aging is foolish-unless you're speaking of the consequences of traditions or national habits. There are certain types that appear more frequently in some European countries than others, but how many people do you come across where you know their background before they open their mouths?

Fuck off, R24. No one's listening. Did murdering the Romanovs make another ethnicity age badly?

She was born a baroness: Elke Baronesse von Schletz

Scheizah!!

HUBBA!HUBBA! I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR A GAL TO MAKE A THREESOME WITH MY NEW GUY.

If that's Elke today, imagine what Sharon Tate would look like.