Yvette Mimieux (born January 8, 1942) is a retired American movie and television actress.
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Early life and career
Yvette Carmen Mimieux was born in Los Angeles, California, United States, to a French father and a Mexican mother. Before her film career began, Mimieux was one of four finalists from a beauty contest picked by Elvis Presley (while he was filming Jailhouse Rock, 1957) who were invited to come to the set to compete for a bit role in the movie ("girl in bathing suit"). She and the other girls modeled their suits. Mimieux was not selected.
MGM
Her first film appearance was in Platinum High School (1960) for MGM, who signed her to a long term contract. She achieved fame in George Pal's film version of H. G. Wells's 1895 novel The Time Machine (1960) co-starring Rod Taylor, in which she played the character Weena. It was popular at the box office as was the teen comedy Where the Boys Are (1960). She also guest starred on Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (1960) and other shows.
MGM put Mimieux in the ingenue role in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1961), an expensive flop. She had a central role in The Light in the Piazza (1962) with Olivia de Havilland and George Hamilton, playing a mentally disabled girl. The film lost money but was well regarded critically. She had a small part in The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1963), another commercial disappointment.
In 1963, Mimieux appeared in Diamond Head for Columbia and Toys in the Attic, for United Artists.
At MGM she made a cameo in Looking for Love (1964) and played Richard Chamberlain's love interest in Joy in the Morning (1965), a melodrama.
Post MGM
She was in a Western The Reward (1967) then made a Disney comedy Monkeys, Go Home! (1967). She was in a heist film The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1967) and was reunited with Rod Taylor in the MGM action movie Dark of the Sun (1968).
Mimieux was top billed in Three in the Attic (1969) at AIP, a huge hit. She appeared in the critically acclaimed movie The Picasso Summer (1969) alongside Albert Finney.
Mimieux was the female lead in The Delta Factor (1970), an action film. She then had one of the leads in The Most Deadly Game (1970-71) a short-lived TV series from Aaron Spelling.
After making the TV movie Black Moon (1971) she was an air-hostess in MGM's Skyjacked (1972) and was in a science fiction film at Fox The Neptune Factor (1973).
She appeared in a two-part episode of Dr. Kildare ("Tyger, Tyger", 1964) and later appeared in numerous television series and made-for-television movies. She was an assassin in Spelling's Hit Lady (1974) and was in The Legend of Valentino (1975), wherein she played Rudolph Valentino's second wife, Natacha Rambova.
She was in a Canadian thriller Journey into Fear (1975) and made a pilot for a TV series based on Bell, Book and Candle (1976) but it was not picked up.
Later Films
Mimieux was a falsely imprisoned woman victimized by a sadistic guard in the film Jackson County Jail (1976) with Tommy Lee Jones, and a box office hit. She was in some horror-orientated TV movies, Snowbeast (1977), Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978), and Disaster on the Coastliner (1979).
Later, Mimieux co-starred in the first PG-rated Walt Disney Productions feature, The Black Hole (1979). She had the lead in Circle of Power (1981).
She was in Obsessive Love (1984), a television movie about a female stalker which she co-wrote and co-produced. She had the lead in Berrenger's (1985) a short lived TV series and had a support role in the TV movie The Fifth Missile (1986).
Her last film was Lady Boss (1992).
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Personal life
Mimieux retired from acting in 1992. She was married to film director Stanley Donen from 1972 until their divorce in 1985. In 1986 Mimieux married Howard F. Ruby, chairman emeritus and founder of Oakwood Worldwide. She has no children.
Filmography
Television work
Recordings
- The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm 1962 (MGM Records), as The Dancing Princess
- Baudelaire's Flowers Of Evil (Les Fleurs Du Mal) 1968 (Connoisseur Society), reading excerpts of Cyril Scott's 1909 translation with music by Ali Akbar Khan
References
External links
- Yvette Mimieux on IMDb
- Yvette Mimieux at the TCM Movie Database
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