As the most famous twins in show business, Alice and Ellen Kessler (86) have been on the stages of this world for decades – and have met many a star up close. “So Elvis was an uptight, inhibited young man,” said Ellen Kessler to the “Münchner Merkur” (Saturday).
Her twin sister Alice added: “No one believed us. When you saw him on stage, he looked very different.” She suspects Elvis Presley was hoping they would have a crush on him. “But we weren’t really like that. We were totally cool.” That unsettled him. “But I have to admit: when we went out with him, he looked great.”
Frank Sinatra, on the other hand, was a great professional. “He was very nice to us,” Alice reported in the double interview. “Do you also know why? We never pushed him, we never wanted anything from him. We observed them, the people around him: “Oh, Frankie!” Everyone always followed him. That annoyed him. We did held us back completely.”
The two 86-year-olds want to auction numerous hand-sewn costumes from their 70-year stage career in an online charity auction from Wednesday. The proceeds of the auction go without deductions to those affected by the flood disaster in the Ahr Valley.
