Yvette Mimieux

At 82 years old, Yvette Mimieux has this physical status:

Yvette Mimieux (born January 8, 1942) is a retired American film and television actress.

Personal life and death

Mimieux had been married three times before having no children. Evan Harland Engber married on December 19, 1959, but she kept the marriage private for nearly two years. She was married secondly to film director Stanley Donen from 1972 to 1985, a film actress who grew up. Howard F. Ruby, chairman emeritus and co-founder of Oakwood Worldwide, was her last marriage.

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Early life and career

Mimieux was born in Los Angeles, California, on January 8, 1942, to René Mimieux, a Frenchman, and Maria Montemayor, a Mexican. Mimieux had at least two siblings, a sister, Gloria, and a brother Edouardo.

After a talent manager, Jim Byron, suggested that she become an actress, her career was launched. Yancy Derringer and One Step Beyond were her first acting appearances on television shows Yancy Derringer and One Step Beyond, both 1959, at the age of 17.

Mimieux appeared in George Pal's film adaptation of H. G. Wells' 1895 book The Time Machine (1960), in which she played the role Weena. It was created for MGM, which put her under long-term employment. However, her first film, Platinum High School (1960), was produced by Albert Zugsmith for MGM and released two months before The Time Machine. The actress' appearance in Platinum High School earned her a Golden Globe Awards nomination for "New Star Of The Year" in 1960.

Mimieux appeared in an episode of Mr Lucky, but then became one of many leads in the wildly popular teen sitcom Where the Boys Are (1960). Mimieux was put in the ingenue role in the Apocalypse (1961), an expensive flop. Arthur Freed wanted to work with George Hamilton in a version of The Clock, but it wasn't made.

She later said:

Mimieux had been slated for a role in MGM's A Summer Affair, but it wasn't made.

Mimieux appeared in Pal's The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1963), which was another commercial disappointment. She appeared in Diamond Head (1963) with Charlton Heston later that year. Mimieux went to United Artists for Toys in Attic, based on Lillian Hellman's play and co-starring Geraldine Page and Dean Martin. Mimieux and Richard Chamberlain co-starred on two episodes of Dr. Kildare at MGM. She starred as a surfer suffering from epilepsy, a role that earned a Golden Globe nomination in 1965 for "Best Actress In A Television Series."

In Looking for Love (1964), a melodrama, Mimieux made a cameo as herself, starring Connie Francis and Richard Chamberlain.

Mimieux appeared in a Western with Max von Sydow in the 1960s; the Disney comedies Monkeys, Go Home! (1967) and a heist film The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1967).

Mimieux appeared on television in The Desperate Hours (1967) and was reunited with Rod Taylor in the MGM action film Dark of the Sun (1968). In 1968, she narrated a classical music performance at the Hollywood Bowl.

Mimieux appeared in Three in Attic, AIP's best-billed film, in 1969, alongside Albert Finney, who appeared in the critically acclaimed 1969 film The Picasso Summer. She appeared in The Delta Factor (1970), an action film, for the female lead.

Mimieux was one of the leading characters in Aaron Spelling's short-lived TV series The Most Deadly Game (1970-1981). Inger Stevens, who had been supposed to appear, was supposed to appear, but she died a month before production began. Mimieux was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Actress – Drama Series in 1971.

Mimieux's business, which sold Haitian products and researched archeology, flourished; she would travel for several months of each year. She sued her handler for failing to provide her with movie service after making the TV movies Death Takes a Holiday (1971) and Black Noon (1971), despite having earned her money.

Mimieux appeared in MGM's Skyjacked (1972), starring Charlton Heston, and appeared in the Fox science-fiction film The Neptune Factor (1973).

Mimieux was dissatisfied with the roles offered to actors by the 1970

Mimieux had been writing for many years before this film, mainly journalist and short stories. She had a dream about a Pirandello-like them

Mimieux wrote a thriller and brought it to producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, who then made it for ABC as a television movie. Hit Lady (1974) appeared on television.

Mimieux appeared in The Legend of Valentino (as Rudolph Valentino's second wife, Natacha Rambova), and the Canadian thriller Journey into Fear in 1975. Mimieux produced a pilot for a TV sitcom based on Bell, Book, and Candle in 1976, but it was not successful.

In the film Jackson County Jail (1976), which was a box-office smash, Mimieux played a falsely arrested woman perpetrated by a cruel guard.

Mimieux appeared in such horror-oriented television films as Snowbeast (1977), Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978), and Disaster on the Coastliner (1979). She has also appeared in the television series Ransom for Alice. (1977) and Out Chance (1978).

Later, she appeared in The Black Hole, Walt Disney Productions' first PG-rated Walt Disney Productions film (1979). She was the first female member of Circle of Power (1981).

Mimieux appeared in the television series Forbidden Love (1982) and Night Partners (1983) and appeared on The Love Boat and Lime Street (1983). Obsessive Love (1984), a television film about a female stalker starring her co-wrote and co-produced, was she co-wrote and co-produc

Mimieux was the lead in Berrenger's (1985), a short-lived TV series, and she was a supporting cast member of the TV series The Fifth Missile (1986). Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception (1990) She gueststarred in a television film Perry Mason: The Deception of the Deception Deception (1990). Lady Boss (1992) was her last film.

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