Sandra Giles

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Sandra Giles (actually Lelia Bernice Giles , born July 24, 1932 in Hooker , Oklahoma , † December 25, 2016 in Los Angeles ) was an American actress , model and glamor girl of the 1950s and 1960s.

Career

Already elected beauty queen several times in her home country, Sandra Giles moved to Hollywood in the early 1950s to pursue a career as an actress. She worked as a secretary before establishing first contacts with the press agent Shelly Davis through her roommate, who later became Miss Hollywood Stars Juli Reding . Giles' appearance and demeanor resembled that of the film star Jayne Mansfield and, like Mansfield, Sandra Giles used targeted and high-profile appearances to attract attention from photographers and press people. So she drove up to the premiere of the film Reporters of Love (1958) in a Ford Thunderbird clad in pink faux fur . In addition to appearing as a sex bomb , the pin-up girl presented the gossip press with various romantic relationships with men of Hollywood high society. She had her first film role in Daddy-O in 1958 , followed by films such as Lost, Lonely and Vicious and Black Spurs . She had one of her last appearances in 1990 in the crime series Columbo .

Filmography (selection)

Film appearances

  • 1958: Daddy-O
  • 1958: Jim, the Ice Cold Killer (A Lust to Kill)
  • 1963: Whether blond, whether brown ... (It Happened at the World's Fair)
  • 1966: Paris is full of love (Made in Paris)
  • 1969: Dead bees don't sing (Flareup)
  • 1972: Visa for Hell (Black Gunn)

Television appearances

literature

  • Richard Koper: Fifties Blondes: Sexbombs, Sirens, Bad Girls and Teen Queens (2010 / BearManor Media)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Giles, Sandra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giles, Lelia Bernice (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and television actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Hooker , Oklahoma , United States
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2016
Place of death los Angeles