THE CAST

ELKE SOMMER

Elke Sommer is a star. Though everyone knows what a star is, and almost everyone recognizes even embryonic star quality, no one yet has been able to define exactly what it is – not beauty alone, nor beauty with acting ability, but both of these plus the all-important mysterious “something else.” Which is what Miss Sommer has, as witness her meteoric rise in the space of about six years to the top of the theatre marquee.

The German-born beauty, who speaks Italian, French, Spanish and English fluently, plays Kay Bergdahl, sketch artist become designer, in “The Oscar,” and the one girl to whom Frankie Fane says the magic word “marry” – and understandably.

She has made films in her native Germany, in Italy, France and England, as well as in America. Her most recent films are “The Art of Love,” with James Garner and Dick Van Dyke; “Bambole,” a trilogy; “Money Trap” with Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth; and “Boy Did I Get A Wrong Number,” with Bob Hope.