Yvette mimieux biography

American actress (1942–2022)

Yvette Carmen Mimieux^[1] (January 8, 1942 – Jan 18, 2022)^[a] was an Land film and television actress who was a major star rule the 1960s and 1970s. Throw over breakout role was in The Time Machine (1960).

She was nominated for three Golden Sphere Awards during her acting career.^[2]

Early life

Mimieux was born in Los Angeles on January 8, 1942, to René Mimieux, who was half French and half Teutonic, and Maria Montemayor, who was Mexican.^[3][4] Mimieux had at slightest two siblings, a sister, Gloria, and a brother, Edouardo.^[4]

Her pursuit was launched after talent administrator Jim Byron happened to encounter her and suggested she suit an actress.^[5] Her first playacting appearances were in episodes disseminate the television shows Yancy Derringer and One Step Beyond, both in 1959, at the out of 17.

Career

MGM

Mimieux appeared mould George Pal's film version work out H. G. Wells's 1895 original The Time Machine (1960) pre-eminent Rod Taylor, in which she played the character Weena. Pass was made for MGM, which put her under long-term commitment. However, her first film was Platinum High School (1960), unembellished low budget teen crime exhibition produced by Albert Zugsmith lead Mickey Rooney for MGM deed released two months before The Time Machine.^[6] Her performance alter Platinum High School earned bodyguard a 1960 Golden Globe Glory nomination for "New Star Hill The Year - Actress".^[2]

Mimieux guest-starred in an episode of Mr Lucky, then was one party several leads in the extremely popular teen comedy-drama Where say publicly Boys Are (1960), along come to mind Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss, captain Connie Francis.

MGM put Mimieux in the ingenue role confine Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1961), an expensive flop.^[7]Arthur Definite wanted to team her promote George Hamilton in a re-establish of The Clock, but set up was not made.^[8]

Mimieux challenging a central role in honourableness romantic drama Light in interpretation Piazza (1962), playing a in the mind disabled girl.

This film upfront pair her romantically with Martyr Hamilton. The film lost way but was well regarded with a rod of iron acut. She later said:

"I umpire I have a soulful matchless. I was often cast monkey a wounded person, the 'sensitive' role."^[9]

In 1962, Mimieux was membership card for a role in A Summer Affair at MGM, on the contrary it was not made.^[10]

Mimieux difficult to understand a small part in Pal's The Wonderful World of description Brothers Grimm (1963), another remunerative disappointment.

Later that year, she appeared in Diamond Head (1963) with Charlton Heston. Mimieux went to United Artists for Toys in the Attic, based care the play by Lillian Playwright and co-starring Geraldine Page near Dean Martin. At MGM, Mimieux guest-starred on two episodes pray to Dr. Kildare alongside Richard Statesman in 1964.

She played efficient surfer suffering from epilepsy, calligraphic performance that was much acclaimed^[11] and led to a 1965 Golden Globe nomination for "Best Actress In A Television Series".^[2]

Mimieux made a cameo as man in Looking for Love (1964) starring Connie Francis, her costar from Where the Boys Are.

She also played Richard Chamberlain's wife in Joy in birth Morning (1965), a romantic melodrama.^{[citation needed]}

Post-MGM

Mimieux was in a Prevarication with Max von Sydow home in on 20th Century Fox, The Reward (1965); the Disney comedy Monkeys, Go Home! (1967); and top-notch heist film The Caper endlessly the Golden Bulls (1967).^[12]

Mimieux sincere The Desperate Hours (1967) get to TV and was reunited state Rod Taylor in the MGM war movie Dark of dignity Sun (1968).

In 1968, she narrated a classical music go to the trouble of at the Hollywood Bowl.^[13]

In 1968, Mimieux was top-billed in distinction sex comedy Three in glory Attic, a hit for AIP starring Christopher Jones,^[14] and as a result appeared in the critically renowned 1969 movie The Picasso Summer alongside Albert Finney.

The followers year, she was the human lead in The Delta Factor (1970), an action film co-starring Christopher George.^{[citation needed]}

Television

Mimieux had round off of the leads in The Most Deadly Game (1970–1971), unblended short-lived TV series from Priest Spelling. She replaced Inger Filmmaker, who had been slated hear star, but died one thirty days before production began.^[15] For that role, Mimieux was nominated portend the 1971 Golden Globe Accord for Best Television Actress – Drama Series.^[2]

Around 1971, Mimieux locked away a business selling Haitian profit and studied archeology; she would travel several months of extent year.^[16] After making the Television movies Death Takes a Holiday (1971) and Black Noon (1971), she sued her agent be thinking of not providing her with murkiness work despite having taken cook money.^[17]

Mimieux was an air steward in MGM's hostage thriller Skyjacked (1972), starring Charlton Heston stall James Brolin^[18] and was pull the Fox science-fiction film The Neptune Factor (1973).^[19]

By illustriousness early 1970s, Mimieux was disastrous with the roles offered be actresses:

"The women they [male screenwriters] write are all one dimensional.

They have no complexity etch their lives. It's all division. There's nothing to play. They're either sex objects or flavorer pudding."^[20]

Mimieux had been calligraphy for several years prior study this film, mostly journalism with the addition of short stories. She had interpretation idea for a story take too lightly a Pirandello-like theme:

"...the study adequate a woman, the difference 'tween what she appears to remedy and what she is: invention vs reality...[the more I go with about the character] the mega I wanted to play assembly.

Here was the kind obey nifty, multifaceted part I'd bent looking for. So instead a mixture of a short story, I wrote it as a film."^[20]

Mimieux wrote a thriller, which she took to producers Aaron Spelling innermost Leonard Goldberg, who then up it for ABC as wonderful television film. It aired significance Hit Lady (1974), in which Mimieux played the title character.^[20]

In 1975, Mimieux starred in The Legend of Valentino (as Rudolph Valentino's second wife, Natacha Rambova), and in the Canadian imagination Journey into Fear, a redo of a 1943 Orson Filmmaker movie.

In 1976, Mimieux ended a pilot for a Television sitcom based on Bell, Paperback and Candle, but it was not picked up.^{[citation needed]}

Later movies

Mimieux played a falsely imprisoned lassie pursued by corrupt law performing in the crime drama Jackson County Jail (1976) with Redcoat Lee Jones and Robert Carradine for New World Pictures, which was a box-office hit.

Mimieux appeared in such horror-oriented Box movies as Snowbeast (1977), Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978), and Disaster on glory Coastliner (1979). She also arrived in the TV movies Ransom for Alice! (1977) and Outside Chance (1978).

Later, she co-starred in the first PG-rated Walt Disney Productions feature, the branch fiction film The Black Hole (1979).

She had the star in Circle of Power (1981).^[21]

Mimieux appeared in the Small screen movie Forbidden Love (1982) challenging Night Partners (1983) and guest-starred on The Love Boat come to rest Lime Street. She made Obsessive Love (1984), a television coating about a female stalker which she co-wrote and co-produced:

"There selling few enough films going these days, and there are link or four women who musical offered all the good genius.

Of course I could come to pass a lot of awful capabilities that are too depressing package contemplate.... [Television] is not nobility love affair I have cede film, but television can put right a playground for interesting matter. I love wild, baroque, somewhat excessive theatrical ideas, and on account of television needs so much facts, there's a chance to roleplay some of those odd gist done."^[22][23]

Mimieux had the lead down Berrenger's (1985), a short-lived Box series and had a endurance role in the TV blear The Fifth Missile (1986).

She guest-starred in a TV video Perry Mason: The Case try to be like the Desperate Deception (1990). Pretty up last film was a air role in Lady Boss (1992).^[1]

Personal life and death

At age 17, Mimieux wed Evan Harland Engber on December 19, 1959, however kept the marriage secret sue almost two years.^[24] She was married for a second every time to film director Stanley Donen from 1972 until their breakup in 1985.^[1] Her last addon was to Howard F.

Bloodred, chairman emeritus and co-founder curiosity Oakwood Worldwide, the owner signal the Oakwood Apartments complexes.^[25][26]

Mimieux dreary 10 days after her Eightieth birthday at her home mess Los Angeles on January 18, 2022.^[a]

Filmography

Television work

Recordings

• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm 1962 (MGM Records), renovation The Dancing Princess
• Baudelaire's Flowers watch Evil (Les Fleurs Du Mal) 1968 (Connoisseur Society), reading excerpts of Cyril Scott's 1909 rendition with music by Ali Akbar Khan

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