{"id":661105,"date":"2026-10-29T23:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661105\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T23:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:40:09","slug":"elke-sommer-german-born-star-of-a-shot-in-the-dark-and-the-prize-dies-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661105\/","title":{"rendered":"Elke Sommer, German-born star of \u2018A Shot in the Dark\u2019 and \u2018The Prize,\u2019 dies at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"EDX7PGZTHNGOLLKPGE3Y4ZLEDM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Elke Sommer, the striking blonde bombshell of German descent who was a mainstay of 1960s Hollywood comedies and espionage <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/movies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">movies<\/a> including \u201cThe Prize\u201d and \u201cA Shot in the Dark,\u201d has died. She was 85.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JKXKM2623ZC6VI2HAB666QAPRM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Sommer died at home in Bel Air, in Los Angeles, on Wednesday, her stepson Sebastian Walther told the German outlet Bild. The Los Angeles Police Department told The Associated Press that it responded to the death of an 85-year-old woman on Sommer\u2019s block Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elke Sommer, the striking blonde bombshell of German descent who was a mainstay of 1960s Hollywood comedies and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[297503,146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-661105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ent-obit-elke-sommer","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}