Yvette Mimieux

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Yvette Mimieux 1965

Yvette Carmen Mimieux ( January 8, 1942 - January 17, 2022 Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress .

Life

Mimieux was the daughter of a French father and a Mexican mother. She had won a beauty pageant and was a popular fashion model when she signed to MGM in 1959 . In 1964, while at MGM, Mimieux made cameo appearances in two episodes of the TV series Dr. Kildare alongside Richard Chamberlain . She played a surfer who suffers from epilepsy . In her performance, she was the first woman on US television to see her belly button .

She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actress for her first film role in the crime film Insel der Sadisten . Two more nominations followed in 1965 and 1971, but they also went away empty-handed. In Germany, she became particularly well-known in the role of Eloi Weena from the 1959 film adaptation of the HG Wells novel The Time Machine , in which she plays the female lead alongside Rod Taylor . Both starred together again in 1967 in the mercenary war film Katanga .

Mimieux was married to film director Stanley Donen from 1972 to 1985 , in 1986 she married multi-millionaire Howard Ruby . She was an anthropologist by training .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1958: A Certain Smile
  • 1960: The Time Machine
  • 1960: That Takes Two (Where the Boys Are)
  • 1962: The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
  • 1962: The King of Hawaii (Diamond Head)
  • 1962: Light in the Piazza
  • 1962: The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse
  • 1963 Toys in the Attic
  • 1967: Kick the Monkeys Out (Monkeys, Go Home!)
  • 1968: Katanga (The Mercenaries)
  • 1970: The Delta Factor
  • 1972: Endstation Hell (Skyjacked)
  • 1973 The Neptune Factor
  • 1975: Journey into Fear
  • 1976: Raped Behind Bars (Jackson County Jail)
  • 1979 The Black Hole
  • 1979 Disaster on the Coastliner
  • 1982 Forbidden Love
  • 1983: Brainwashing (Circle of Power)
  • 1984: Love Boat (TV Series, Episode "The Hong Kong Affair")
  • 1990: Perry Mason and the Fake Dead ( Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception ; TV Movie)
  • 1992: Lady Boss (TV Movie)

web links

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itemizations

  1. ↑ Anita Gates: Yvette Mimieux, Who Found Fame With 'The Time Machine,' Dies at 80. In: The New York Times . January 18, 2022, retrieved January 19, 2022 .
  2. ↑ Navel gazing: The first female belly buttons ever seen on TV - Bellies have a bizarre history on the small screen
  3. ↑ Hollywood Foreign Press Association: Golden Globes Awards ( Memento of October 12, 2008 at the Internet Archive ). Retrieved January 25, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Mimieux, Yvette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mimieux, Yvette Carmen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and stage actress
BIRTH DATE January 8, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 2022
PLACE OF DEATH Los Angeles , California