Yvette Vickers Model (Adult/Glamour) - Date of Birth 26 August 1928, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Date of Death 2011, Benedict Canyon, Beverly Crest, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart failure)

Birth Name Iola Yvette Vedder

Height 5' 3" (1.6 m)

Mini Bio (1) Born on August 26, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri, Yvette Vickers majored in picture and theatre arts at UCLA for three years. On a trip to New York in the mid-1950's, she was cast as the White Rain Girl in commercials. She returned to the West Coast, working in various television series until she debuted in her first movie, Short Cut to Hell (1957), James Cagney's first directing effort. She played Allison Hayes' slatternly rival in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) and Bruno VeSota's slatternly wife in Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959). After doing a half dozen more movies through the end of the 1950's, the blonde, blue-eyed actress appeared once in 1963 in Hud (1963), in What's the Matter with Helen? (1971), and in the television movie The Dead Don't Die (1975).

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Doug Sederberg

Spouse (3)

Tom Howland (1967 - 1969) (divorced)

Leonard Burns (13 June 1959 - 12 June 1961) (divorced)

Donald G. Prell (22 October 1953 - 1957) (divorced)

Jim Hutton on-and-off 15-year relationship

Trade Mark (3)

Blonde hair and blue eyes

Lisp, breathless voice

Voluptuous figure

Trivia (8)

Her musician/song-writing parents recorded quite a few 45-RPM records in the 1950's and 1960's. Their group was billed as The Chuck Vedder Trio, and they put out primarily rock-and-roll and jazz instrumentals. Yvette, a singer on the side, released a jazz CD in the 1990s called "Tribute to Charlie and Maria" that showcased some of her parents' songs. Both parents passed away in the 1990s.

Divorced twice, she had an on-and-off 15-year relationship with the late actor Jim Hutton, the father of Timothy Hutton.

Once up for a lead role in Lana Turner's Imitation of Life (1959).

Stephen King, in his book "Stephen King: On Writing", cited her as one of his movie matinée idols.

Interviewed in the book "Invasion of the B-Girls" by Jewel Shepard.

Her father Charles Vedder was a jazz saxophonist.

Her dead body was discovered in her home by neighbor Susan Savage in April 2011. Its condition suggested that she had been dead for close to a year.

Best remembered for her role as Honey Parker in the cult classic Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958).

Personal Quotes (3)

I always knew I wanted to try for a career in pictures, so I studied drama and worked in little theaters. But I was impatient for a talent scout to discover me. When I was 16 I bleached my hair as a bid for attention. I didn't know how to go about this and made many mistakes. Instead of taking weeks, I applied peroxide and ammonia three times in seven days and my hair got just like straw. My scalp had sore places all over. Even the color was horrid - an artificial orange that was unbecoming. It is interesting to me how much hair influences your personality. Men expect a blonde to be more frivolous and less intelligent.

[after marrying actor Tom Howland in Las Vegas] Tom is a Chicago actor now in Hollywood. We met about six weeks ago and fell very much in love, so we just went and got married. We hope to do a play together.

[about ex-husband Leonard Burns] Leonard ended all our arguments with the statement, "You are not worthy of me". I began to think that I was some kind of an inferior being.

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26 August 1928 - is born in Kansas City, Missouri, daughter of jazz saxophonist Charles Vedder and his wife Maria

Late 40s attends a Catholic high school in Los Angeles

50 billed as Yvette Vedder, she performs in local little theater productions as an actress and dancer

is discovered by director Billy Wilder, who casts her in a bit part in the classic Sunset Boulevard. She changes her professional name to Yvette Vickers.

51 enters UCLA at age 23, eventually earning her B.A. in theater arts

53 marries bass player Don Prell, a member of The Bud Shank Quartet

54 is the White Rain girl in a nationally televised shampoo commercial

55 divorces Prell

56 begins to work a lot on episodic TV and dates actor Ben Cooper

57 is seen by James Cagney and Paramount executive A.C. Lyles while appearing on the Los

angeles stage in Bus Stop and is given her first co-starring role in the Paramount film Short Cut to Hell

dates her Reform School Girl co-star Edd "Kookie" Byrnes

58 flirts with Rory Calhoun, her co-star in the Universal-International Western, The Saga of Hemp Brown

also dates Steve Cochran, the star of I, Mobster, in which she has a bit part as a sexy junkie

loses out on juicy roles in This Earth is Mine and Imitation of Life

will become a top cult-movie queen via her co-starring role in the classic Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman

59 marries writer Leonard Burns, but divorces him quickly

resumes dating several Hollywood actors, including Lee Marvin

becomes a health food advocate and follows a beatnik lifestyle in Hollywood

July 59 is Playboy`s "Playmate of the Month" in a sexy spread photographed by the renowned Russ Meyer. As a result of the favorable publicity her centerfold generates, she wins a co-starring role in a prestigious Broadway play, The Gang`s All Here, a show that runs for one year.

60 meets actor Ralph Meeker, with whom she has an on-again off-again, bi-coastal relationship for the next five years

back on the West Coast, she guest stars on a host of television shows and continues to model for various glamour girl magazines

61 has an affair with Cary Grant, which ends when he proposes marriage to actress Dyan Cannon. He and Yvette remain good friends until his death.

63 gets a juicy role in the acclaimed Paul Newman film, Hud, only to have most of her scenes cut when Newman`s wife Joanne Woodward objects to the onscreen chemistry between her husband and Yvette

November 63 gets rave reviews for her performance in the stage play Grand Guignol, at Los Angeles`s New Club. Several other Hollywood stage plays follow.

64 meets actor Jim Hutton, with whom she falls in love. For the next 14 years, the two are virtually inseparable, but never marry.

69 following a spat with Hutton, she impulsively flies to Las Vegas and marries actor Tom Holland. After a quick divorce, she and Hutton reunite.

70s goes into real estate sales and investments to make money for her retirement years and does quite well for herself. Continues to act sporadically in films, on stage, and in television.

June 79 her often-tempestuous relationship with Hutton ends with his death from cancer

80s abandons her career to help care for her parents, who suffer from ill health

89 to her fans` delight, she records her first album of blues, jazz ,and classic pop ballads, "Yvette Vickers Sings!," which she distributes herself. She puts together a cabaret act and performs in various L.A. clubs.

91 attempts a film comeback with the horror entry Evil Spirits, but sees many of her scenes cut

Mid-90s continues to polish her cabaret act and to successfully manage her real estate holdings

00 releases a jazz CD, "A Tribute to Charlie and Maria," in honor of her late parents

02 enjoys a resurgence in her career and plans two future recording projects, both scheduled for release in 2003

03 begins work on her autobiography

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Biography by Hans J. Wollstein [-]

The daughter of musicians, this sultry femme fatale of late-'50s horror flicks had been the "White Rain" girl in television commercials before entering films in James Cagney's Short Cut to Hell (1957). (Prior to that she had reportedly been an extra in Sunset Blvd. (1950) while attending U.C.L.A.) Trained as a singer, Yvette Vickers (born Van Vedder) drifted into B-movies when the Cagney film flopped and is today best remembered for the horror movies she did for Roger Corman: Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958), as Allison Hayes's slatternly rival, and Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959). In the latter, playing Bruno Ve Sota's sluttish young wife, she is dragged into an underwater cage by the title creatures despite always professing a deep fear of drowning, her visible terror apparently quite real. Vickers, who did her fair share of television and stage appearances, was at the time better known for her extracurricular activities -- including a 15-year relationship with actor Jim Hutton and an on-again/off-again affair with Cary Grant -- and for a couple of important film roles that somehow slipped away: Lana Turner's daughter in Imitation of Life (1959) and the Carroll Baker part in The Carpetbaggers (1964). In later years, she concentrated on her singing career and made frequent personal appearances to discuss her work for Corman. On a bizarre note, Vickers was found deceased at her house on April 27th 2011 in a condition which suggested that the body had been dead but lay undiscovered for nearly a year. No cause of death was immediately disclosed.

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