Marlene Dietrich was born in Schöneberg, which is now part of Berlin but until the city's 2001 administrative reform it was a separate borough (including the locality of Friedenau). Together with the former borough of Tempelhof it is now part of the new borough of Tempelhof–Schöneberg.
Tempelhof was the location of one of the world's first commercial airports, which controversially ceased operations in 2008.
Elke Sommer was born Elke Baronin von Schletz, in 1940. After passing her college entrance exam she moved to the UK to work as an au pair and an interpreter, and to perfect her English. She was spotted by the film director Vittorio De Sica while on holiday in Italy, and began appearing in films there in 1958.
She quickly became a pin-up girl and a sex symbol, appearing twice in Playboy. Her film appearances included the Pink Panther sequel A Shot in the Dark (1964), the Bob Hope comedy Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966), Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None (1974), and (memorably, according to Wikipedia) Carry On Behind (1975).
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