Actress Yvette Mimieux seems on the premier of "Useless Imply Do not Put on Plaid" in Los Angeles on Could 9, 1982. (AP Picture/Doug Pizac, File)
NEW YORK --
Yvette Mimieux, the blond and blue-eyed Nineteen Sixties movie star of “The place the Boys Are,” “The Time Machine” and “Gentle within the Piazza,” has died. She was 80.
Michelle Bega, a household spokeswoman, mentioned Mimieux died in her sleep of pure causes in a single day Monday night at her dwelling in Los Angeles.
In 1960's “The Time Machine,” based mostly on H.G. Wells' 1895 novel, Mimieux starred reverse Rod Taylor as Weena, a member of the peaceable, blond-haired Eloi individuals within the yr 800,000, who do not understand they're being bred as meals by the underground Morlocks.
That position and others that quickly adopted made Mimieux one of many `60s most radiant starlets. The identical yr, she additionally starred within the MGM teen film “The place the Boys Are” as certainly one of 4 faculty college students on spring break in Florida. Her character, distraught after being sexual assaulted in a motel, walks despondently into visitors.
“I suppose I had a soulful high quality,” she instructed the Washington Publish in 1979. “I used to be usually solid as a wounded particular person, the `delicate' position.”
Yvette Carmen Mimieux was born on Jan. 8, 1942, in Los Angeles to a French father and a Mexican mom. She was “found” at age 15 when publicist Jim Byron, as he instructed it, noticed her on bridle path from a helicopter whereas flying over the Hollywood Hills. She and a buddy had been driving on horseback; Byron landed in entrance of them and gave her his card. Mimieux started as a mannequin earlier than MGM signed her in 1959.
“The refined strategy is the factor,” Byron instructed The AP in 1961. “I believe we have one other Garbo on our palms.”
And for a number of years, Mimieux was ubiquitous. Life journal put her on the duvet with the headline: “Warmly Wistful Starlet.” She made eight movies earlier than turning 21.
Mimieux starred in 4 movies in 1962, together with Vincent Minnelli's “The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse” and Man Inexperienced's “Gentle within the Piazza.” Within the latter, she performed the gorgeous, mentally handicapped daughter of Olivia de Havilland. On a visit to Italy, Mimieux's character Clara is pursued by a younger Italian in Florence, performed by George Hamilton.
Mimieux performed a bride in “Toys within the Attic” (1963), an epileptic surfer in “Dr. Kildare” (1964) and a bride in “Pleasure within the Morning” (1965). She was thrice nominated for a Golden Globe, together with for her position within the short-lived ABC sequence “The Most Lethal Recreation,” from Aaron Spelling. Within the `70s and '80s, she more and more appeared in TV films, a few of which she helped write.
Mimieux co-wrote and co-produced the 1984 CBS TV film “Obsessive Love,” a few deranged fan obsessive about a cleaning soap opera star. Mimieux mentioned she needed to battle the community over having a girl, performed by herself, in such a job. Her thought stemmed from John Hinckley's obsession with Jodie Foster, solely with the gender roles reversed.
“The community felt individuals would not imagine me as this girl. They mentioned to me, `She's a loner, and he or she should not be engaging,”' Mimieux instructed The New York Instances in 1984. “I requested them, `Are you saying that solely unattractive individuals could be loopy or lonely or have unfulfilled lives?'
Mimieux mentioned tv was by no means the “love affair” she had with movie. However she complained concerning the sorts of roles she was supplied, and the one-dimensional sort of ladies that had been written. (One among her final notable films was the 1979 Disney movie “The Black Gap.”) So Mimieux retired from present enterprise in her late 40s. Her pursuits - together with archeology, portray and touring - all the time went past fame. Off-screen, Mimieux was rather more than the naive starlet she was pigeonholed as.
“I made a decision I did not need to have a very public life,” she instructed the Publish. “When the fan magazines began desirous to take footage of me making sandwiches for my husband, I mentioned no.
“You recognize, there are tribes in Africa who imagine that a digicam steals a little bit a part of your soul, and in a approach I believe that is true about dwelling your non-public life in public. It takes one thing away out of your relationships, it cheapens them.”
Mimieux first married Evan Harland Engber in 1959 earlier than later divorcing. She was married to the movie director Stanley Donen, from 1972 to 1985. In 1986, she married the true property mogul Howard F. Ruby. She's survived by Ruby and quite a few stepchildren.
Actress Yvette Mimieux seems throughout a portrait session on Aug. 18, 1966. (AP Picture, File)
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