Twins Kessler

German entertainers, identical twins (known as Die Kessler-Zwillinge in Germany and Le Gemelle Kessler in Italy), with a long career who remain popular today. Alice is older than Ellen by half an hour. They came to fame in Europe, especially Germany and Italy, during the 1950s and 1960s, and are known for their singing, dancing, and acting. For a long time they were counted among the most beautiful women in the world. In the USA, they were not as popular but appeared in the 1963 film Sodom and Gomorrah as dancers and appeared on the cover of Life magazine in that year. Their parents, Paul and Elsa, sent them to ballet classes at the age of six, and they joined the Leipzig Operas child ballet program at age 11. When they were 18, their parents used a visitors 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, and represented West Germany in the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest, finishing in 8th place with "Heute Abend wollen wir tanzen gehn" (Tonight we want to go dancing). They moved to Italy in 1960 and gradually moved to more serious roles. 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 up until that point. They moved back to Germany in 1986 and currently live in Munich. They have received two awards from both the German and Italian governments for promoting German-Italian cooperation through their work in show business. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less