1. Yvette Carmen Mimieux was an American film and television actress who was a major star of the 1960s and 1970s.
34 Facts About Yvette Mimieux
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Yvette Mimieux was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards during her acting career.
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Yvette Mimieux had at least two siblings, a sister, Gloria, and a brother, Edouardo.
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Yvette Mimieux's career was launched after talent manager Jim Byron happened to meet her and suggested she become an actress.
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Yvette Mimieux's first acting appearances were in episodes of the television shows Yancy Derringer and One Step Beyond, both in 1959, at the age of 17.
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Yvette Mimieux guest-starred in an episode of Mr Lucky, then was one of several leads in the highly popular teen comedy-drama Where the Boys Are, along with Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss, and Connie Francis.
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Yvette Mimieux had a central role in the romantic drama Light in the Piazza, playing a mentally disabled girl.
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In 1962, Yvette Mimieux was slated for a role in A Summer Affair at MGM, but it was not made.
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Yvette Mimieux had a small part in Pal's The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, another commercial disappointment.
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Yvette Mimieux went to United Artists for Toys in the Attic, based on the play by Lillian Hellman and co-starring Geraldine Page and Dean Martin.
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At MGM, Yvette Mimieux guest-starred on two episodes of Dr Kildare alongside Richard Chamberlain in 1964.
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Yvette Mimieux played a surfer suffering from epilepsy, a performance that was much acclaimed and led to a 1965 Golden Globe nomination for "Best Actress In A Television Series".
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Yvette Mimieux made a cameo as herself in Looking for Love starring Connie Francis, her costar from Where the Boys Are.
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Yvette Mimieux played Richard Chamberlain's wife in Joy in the Morning, a romantic melodrama.
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Yvette Mimieux did The Desperate Hours for TV and was reunited with Rod Taylor in the MGM war movie Dark of the Sun.
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Yvette Mimieux had one of the leads in The Most Deadly Game, a short-lived TV series from Aaron Spelling.
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Yvette Mimieux replaced Inger Stevens, who had been slated to star, but died one month before production began.
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Around 1971, Yvette Mimieux had a business selling Haitian products and studied archeology; she would travel several months of each year.
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Yvette Mimieux was an air hostess in MGM's hostage thriller Skyjacked, starring Charlton Heston and James Brolin and was in the Fox science-fiction film The Neptune Factor.
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Yvette Mimieux had been writing for several years prior to this film, mostly journalism and short stories.
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Yvette Mimieux had the idea for a story about a Pirandello-like theme:.
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Yvette Mimieux wrote a thriller, which she took to producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, who then produced it for ABC as a television film.
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In 1975, Yvette Mimieux starred in The Legend of Valentino, and in the Canadian thriller Journey into Fear, a remake of a 1943 Orson Welles movie.
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In 1976, Yvette Mimieux made a pilot for a TV sitcom based on Bell, Book and Candle, but it was not picked up.
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Yvette Mimieux played a falsely imprisoned woman pursued by corrupt law enforcement in the crime drama Jackson County Jail with Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Carradine for New World Pictures, which was a box-office hit.
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Yvette Mimieux appeared in such horror-oriented TV movies as Snowbeast, Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, and Disaster on the Coastliner.
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Yvette Mimieux appeared in the TV movie Forbidden Love and Night Partners and guest-starred on The Love Boat and Lime Street.
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Yvette Mimieux made Obsessive Love, a television film about a female stalker which she co-wrote and co-produced:.
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Yvette Mimieux had the lead in Berrenger's, a short-lived TV series and had a supporting role in the TV movie The Fifth Missile.
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Yvette Mimieux guest-starred in a TV movie Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception.
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Yvette Mimieux's last film was a supporting role in Lady Boss.
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At age 17, Yvette Mimieux wed Evan Harland Engber on December 19,1959, but kept the marriage secret for almost two years.
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Yvette Mimieux was married for a second time to film director Stanley Donen from 1972 until their divorce in 1985.
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Yvette Mimieux died 10 days after her 80th birthday at her home in Los Angeles on January 18,2022.