The other day we realized that nearly all of our femmes fatales released records at some point, so we have a megapost of sleeves below representing a fraction of these multi-talented women’s musical output. We’ve heard most of the music, believe it or not, and while its quality varies, we do suggest you check out both Marilyn Chambers and Reiko Ike—their simulated orgasms are quite pleasing to the, er, ears. 

Five Screen covers with, top to bottom, the always wonderful Ann-Margret, followed by Jane Fonda, Urusula Weiss, Elke Sommer, and lastly, someone we’re going to say is French actress Mylène Demongeot. If we’re wrong, we’ll correct ourselves later. Concerning Miss Weiss, we found no references to her anywhere online, but we did find two actresses named Ursula—not Urusula—Weiss. One acted in the 1950s, so she’s out as a possibility, and one acted in a film in 2000, which would make her an egg when this 1977 cover came out. We’ll keep looking. Not knowing won’t keep us up nights, but it’s always good to fill in these blanks. If you know anything, feel free to drop us a line.

German actress Elke Sommer in her up-do on the cover of New York News Sunday magazine, forty-six years ago today.     

Assorted covers of the whimsical Japanese nudie magazine B&B, circa 1968 and 1969, with German actress Elke Sommer in the top panel. The Sommer photo is actually a production still from her film Deadlier than the Male, part of this session in which she wears the same distinctive plaid bikini. You can see lots more Japanese nudie mag covers at this amazing Japanese blog.     

Publicity still of Croatian actress and model Sylva Koscina from the film Deadlier than the Male, 1967. She was paired in the movie with Elke Sommer, who we featured as our very first femme fatale with a photo from the same shoot.     

German actress Elke Sommer, born today in 1940, shown here in Universal Pictures' campy 1967 thriller Deadlier than the Male.