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Number9Dream

(1,638 posts)
Mon Aug 26, 2024, 11:54 AM Aug 26

Born August 26, 1928, Yvette Vickers, American actress and model.

Ms. Vickers appeared in a number of movies during the fifties, including "Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman", and "Attack of the Giant Leeches". She appeared as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in the July 1959 issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Vickers

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Born August 26, 1928, Yvette Vickers, American actress and model. (Original Post) Number9Dream Aug 26 OP
Thank you for this post that is so appreciative of the American cinema. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 26 #1
I grew up loving those "B" Chiller Theater type horror movies Number9Dream Aug 26 #3
Met a very sad ending edbermac Aug 26 #2

mahatmakanejeeves

(60,568 posts)
1. Thank you for this post that is so appreciative of the American cinema.
Mon Aug 26, 2024, 11:59 AM
Aug 26
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman has been on Svengoolie.


I don't know why Wikipedia calls it "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" when the poster clearly shows that the title is "Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman."

Number9Dream

(1,638 posts)
3. I grew up loving those "B" Chiller Theater type horror movies
Mon Aug 26, 2024, 03:11 PM
Aug 26

Frank Zappa said he loved them too.
I read somewherre that Ms. Vickers and Allison Hayes became close friends on the set and afterward.

edbermac

(16,106 posts)
2. Met a very sad ending
Mon Aug 26, 2024, 12:00 PM
Aug 26

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A former Playboy Playmate whose mummified body was found in her dilapidated Beverly Hills home last month, died of heart failure, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday.
Yvette Vickers, a B-movie actress who was named Playboy's Miss July in 1959, was found dead at her home on April 27 after evidently being undiscovered for up to a year.
Joyce Kato, an investigator with the Los Angeles county coroner's department, told the Times she died of natural causes "due to arterial sclerotic cardiovascular disease," or heart disease caused by a hardening of the arteries.
Several calls made to the coroner's office to confirm the report went unanswered on Saturday.
A neighbor found Vickers' body after her suspicions were aroused by old letters and cobwebs in the mailbox. The house was packed with boxes, and at least one window was broken. A space heater was running in the upstairs room where the body was lying on the floor

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