Ellen Kessler

Ellen Kessler

Acting 1936-08-20 Nerchau, Germany

Alice and Ellen Kessler (born 20 August 1936 in Nerchau, Saxony, Germany) are twin entertainers known in Europe, especially Germany and Italy, from the 1950s and 1960s for their singing, dancing, and acting. They are usually credited as the Kessler Twins (Die Kessler-Zwillinge in Germany and Le Gemelle Kessler in Italy), where they remain popular. The Kessler sisters enjoyed a significant degree of popularity in the US, appearing on national television programs such as The Ed Sullivan Show. The Kesslers made their American television debut on the CBS variety show, The Red Skelton Hour. They also appeared in the 1963 film Sodom and Gomorrah as dancers and were featured on the cover of Life Magazine that same year. Their parents, Paul and Elsa, sent them to ballet classes at the age of six, and they joined the Leipzig Opera's child ballet program at age 11. When they were 18, their parents used a visitor's visa to escape to West Germany, where they performed at the Palladium in Düsseldorf. They performed at The Lido in Paris between 1955 and 1960, where they met Elvis Presley, on leave from the Army on June 17, 1959, and represented West Germany in the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest, finishing in 8th place with Heute Abend wollen wir tanzen geh'n (Tonight we want to go dancing). They moved to Italy in 1960 and gradually moved to more serious roles. They became very popular thanks to the RAI television variety show Studio Uno (1961–1966). At the age of 40, they agreed to pose on the cover of the Italian edition of Playboy. That issue became the fastest-selling Italian Playboy to that date. They moved back to Germany in 1986 and live in Grünwald. They have received two awards from both the German and Italian governments for promoting German-Italian cooperation through their work in show business. Source: Article "Kessler Twins" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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1995 Ira Adomeit
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1990 Erika Strassberg
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1975 Gast
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1974 Self - Guest
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1971 Self - Contestant
1971 Self
1971 Kathy
1970 Mutter Bemering
1969 Self
1969 Self
1968 Self
1968 Self
1968 Self
1966 Self
1966 Self
1965 Self (segment "Guglielmo il Dentone")
1964 Self
1964 Tiddy Sister Nr. 1
1964 Self
1963 Kessler-Zwillinge
1963 Self
1962 Tänzerin
1962 Dancer
1962 Self - Host
1961 Daya
1961 Ellen
1961 Self
1960 L'autre jumelle, un mannequin de publicité (segment "L'Adultère")
1960 Hildegarde
1959 Self
1959 Self
1958 Rosika
1958 Katja
1958 Tänzerin
1958 Self
1957 Franzi
1957 Flora Fleuron
1957 Tänzerin
1957 Self
1956 Self - Contestant
1948 Self
1948 Self - Laudation