Pamela Tiffin

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Pamela Tiffin (* 13. October 1942 as Pamela Tiffin Wonso in Oklahoma City ) is a former US -American actress .

Live and act

Pamela Tiffin, the only child of the architect Stanley Wonso and his wife Grace, began working as a model at the age of 13 . After graduating from high school, she moved to New York to pursue her career. There she became a successful model, including being featured on the cover of Vogue .

In 1960, Tiffin met producer Hal B. Wallis on a visit to Los Angeles , who invited her to screen tests for the film Summer and Smoke . Back in New York, she was offered the role in Sommer und Rauch . She was also accidentally contacted by Billy Wilder , who had noticed her in an underwear advert in the New York Times . As a result, Tiffin first made her screen debut in Summer and Rauch in 1961 and then played Billy Wilder alongside James Cagney and Horst Buchholz in Eins, Zwei, Drei . While she was cautiously praised by the critics for the former film, she gained greater notoriety for the latter film. At the presentation of the Golden Globe Awards in 1962 she was nominated twice: for one, two, three for best supporting actress and for Sommer und Rauch as best young actress of the year. Even before her first two films were released, Tiffin began filming her third film, Texas Show .

In 1962 Tiffin met Clay Felker, an editor of the Esquire newspaper , whom she married that same year. She wanted to give up acting for a family, but her husband encouraged her to continue working as an actress. She made a few movies and TV series and moved to Italy in 1967 to escape her unhappy marriage. Many of the films made there were not released in the United States. The marriage with Felker finally divorced in 1969.

In February 1969, the US edition of Playboy published a photo series of the lightly clad Pamela Tiffin, about which the actress was very unhappy. Playboy had already made her several offers and bid up to $ 100,000 for recordings, but Tiffin had not taken up. When she got the offer to appear in a film without a shell, she had a supposed friend take pictures of herself. Uncomfortable with the result, she turned down the role. However, the pictures got to Playboy, who printed them in the said series of pictures. Tiffin decided not to take legal action in order not to draw attention to the matter.

In 1974 Tiffin married Edmondo Danon and ended her film career. The couple had two daughters, Echo and Aurora (* 1981), and live in New York and Illinois . Tiffin appeared one last time in the Italian television film Rose (1986).

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Lisanti, Tom: Fantasy femmes of cinema, McFarland & Company, 2001, ISBN 0-7864-0868-5 , pp. 79-91
  2. ↑ Pamela Tiffin at goldenglobes.org (English), accessed on July 20, 2020.
  3. ↑ Aurora Danon on imdb.com (English), accessed November 24, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Tiffin, Pamela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tiffin Wonso, Pamela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and model
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Oklahoma City