Yvette Mimieux

Yvette Mimieux
Born	Yvette Carmen Mimieux January 8, 1942 (1942-01-08) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1956–92
Spouse	Howard F. Ruby (1986–present) Stanley Donen (1972–85; divorced)

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

Early life and career

Yvette Carmen Mimieux was born in Los Angeles, California, to a French father and 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") and invited to come to the set and compete for a bit role in the movie ("girl in bathing suit"). She and the other girls modeled their suits (and figures), but Mimieux was not selected.

In 1960, she appeared in the teen movie Where the Boys Are as well as George Pal's 1960 film version of H.G. Wells's classic 1895 novel The Time Machine co-starring Rod Taylor, wherein she played the character "Weena." This was followed by The Light in the Piazza (1962) with Olivia de Havilland. In 1963, Mimieux appeared in Diamond Head and Toys in the Attic.

Many of the films in which she appeared after 1963 were both critical and commercial failures. She appeared in a 1964 episode of Dr. Kildare ("Tyger Tyger") and later appeared in numerous television series and made-for-television movies, one of which is The Legend of Valentino (1975), wherein she played Rudolph Valentino's second wife, Natacha Rambova. She staged a brief comeback in the 1976 film Jackson County Jail, as a falsely imprisoned woman victimized by a sadistic guard. Later in 1979, Mimieux co-starred in the first PG-rated Walt Disney Productions feature, The Black Hole. In 1984, she starred in Obsessive Love, a television movie about a female stalker that she co-wrote and co-produced. Her last film was Lady Boss (1992). In one of her few forays into television, Yvette played a department store executive, Shane Bradley, on the short-lived drama Berrenger's.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Mimieux retired from acting in 1992. She is an anthropologist and a real estate investor. She was married to film director Stanley Donen from 1972 until their divorce in 1985. In 1986 Mimieux married Howard F. Ruby, chairman and founder of Oakwood Worldwide. She has no children.

Filmography

• Platinum High School (1960)
• The Time Machine (1960)
• Where the Boys Are (1960)
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
• Light in the Piazza (1962)
• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
• Diamond Head (1963)
• Toys in the Attic (1963)
• Looking for Love (1964)
• Joy in the Morning (1965)
• The Reward (1965)
• Monkeys, Go Home! (1967)
• The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1967)
• Dark of the Sun (1968)
• Three in the Attic (1968)
• The Picasso Summer (1969)
• The Delta Factor (1970)
• Skyjacked (1972)
• The Neptune Factor (1973)
• Journey Into Fear (1975)
• Jackson County Jail (1976)
• The Black Hole (1979)
• Circle of Power (1981)
• The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1985) (documentary)

Television Work

• The Desperate Hours (1967)
• The Most Deadly Game (1970 - 1971)
• Death Takes a Holiday (1971)
• Black Noon (1971)
• Hit Lady (1974)
• The Legend of Valentino (1975)
• Bell, Book and Candle (1976)
• Snowbeast (1977)
• Ransom for Alice! (1977)
• Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978)
• Outside Chance (1978)
• Disaster on the Coastliner (1979)
• Forbidden Love (1982)
• Night Partners (1983)
• Obsessive Love (1984)
• Berrenger's (1982) (canceled after 12 episodes)
• The Fifth Missile (1986)
• Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception (1990)
• Lady Boss (1992)

External links

• Photo on cover of Life magazine (May 1960)

• Yvette Mimieux at the Internet Movie Database