On a trip to Italy, Mimieux's character Clara is pursued by a young Italian in Florence, played by George Hamilton. Mimieux starred in four films in 1962, including Vincent Minnelli's “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" and Guy Green's “Light in the Piazza.” In the latter, she played the beautiful, mentally handicapped daughter of Olivia de Havilland. Titles are listed in alphabetical order followed by the year of debut in. Some programs were carried over to The CW, a network formed through a partnership between WB parent company Time Warner and UPN corporate parent CBS Corporation, in September 2006 following the closure of The WB.
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Life magazine put her on the cover with the headline: “Warmly Wistful Starlet.” She made eight films before turning 21. The following is a list of programs broadcast by The WB. “I think we've got another Garbo on our hands.”Īnd for a few years, Mimieux was ubiquitous. “The subtle approach is the thing,” Byron told The AP in 1961. Mimieux began as a model before MGM signed her in 1959. She and a friend were riding on horseback Byron landed in front of them and gave her his card. She was “discovered” at age 15 when publicist Jim Byron, as he told it, spotted her on bridle path from a helicopter while flying over the Hollywood Hills. 8, 1942, in Los Angeles to a French father and a Mexican mother. “I was often cast as a wounded person, the ‘sensitive’ role.”
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“I suppose I had a soulful quality,” she told the Washington Post in 1979. Her character, distraught after being sexual assaulted in a motel, walks despondently into traffic.
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The same year, she also starred in the MGM teen movie “Where the Boys Are" as one of four college students on spring break in Florida. That role and others that soon followed made Mimieux one of the ‘60s most radiant starlets. Wells' 1895 novel, Mimieux starred opposite Rod Taylor as Weena, a member of the peaceful, blond-haired Eloi people in the year 800,000, who don't realize they're being bred as food by the underground Morlocks. In 1960's “The Time Machine,” based on H.G.
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Michelle Bega, a family spokeswoman, said Mimieux died in her sleep of natural causes overnight Monday evening at her home in Los Angeles. NEW YORK – Yvette Mimieux, the blond and blue-eyed 1960s film star of “Where the Boys Are,” "The Time Machine" and “Light in the Piazza,” has died.