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Yvette Mimieux Dead: Star of the Time Machine, The Black Hole Was 80
Actress Yvette Mimieux, who starred in motion pictures together with “The place the Boys Are,” “The Time Machine,” “Mild within the Piazza,” “Toys within the Attic,” “Darkish of the Solar” and “The Picasso Summer season,” died Tuesday. She was 80.
The attractive blonde Mimieux made most of her movies within the Nineteen Sixties, however she was additionally among the many stars of Disney’s 1979 sci-fi movie “The Black Gap.”
Among the many movies Mimieux made in 1960 have been MGM’s shiny teen film “The place the Boys Are,” wherein 4 coeds together with Mimieux’s Melanie head to Fort Lauderdale for spring break searching for enjoyable and the “proper” boy, and George Pal’s adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine,” starring Rod Taylor and with Mimieux third billed as Weena, Taylor’s romantic curiosity, who lives among the many Eloi, a peaceable race dwelling within the yr 802,701.
In 1962 she appeared in 4 movies, together with the big-budget important and industrial catastrophe “The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse” and “The Fantastic World of the Brothers Grimm,” wherein she performed the Princess.
Within the basic “Mild within the Piazza” (later made right into a musical that in the end performed Broadway in 2005), nevertheless, Mimieux had the fascinating problem of taking part in the gorgeous, charming Clara, who’s however mentally disabled because of a childhood head damage and thus very naive within the methods of the world. Olivia de Havilland performed Clara’s mom, who’s extraordinarily protecting of her as they journey by way of Italy and extremely alarmed when a younger Italian in Florence (performed with a somewhat unconvincing accent by George Hamilton) pursues Clara romantically. In “Diamond Head,” set in Hawaii, she performed the sister of Charlton Heston’s Richard “King” Howland, the controlling, highly effective agricultural titan (and hypocritical racist) who insists that Mimieux’s Sloane finish her relationship with a local Hawaiian performed by James Darren.
In George Roy Hill’s “Toys within the Attic” (1963), based mostly on the play by Lillian Hellman, Mimieux performed Lily, the child-bride of ne’er-do-well con man Julian, portrayed by Dean Martin, who returns residence to New Orleans; Mimieux’s Lily is manipulated by Julian’s sister, who has incestuous emotions for her brother.
In a 2001 article on Mimieux, the New York Each day Information declared: “She gave her two greatest display screen performances as lovely younger girls who’re emotionally arrested,” citing “Mild within the Piazza” and “Toys within the Attic.”
In Jack Cardiff’s 1968 motion movie “Darkish of the Solar,” Mimieux reteamed along with her “Time Machine” co-star Rod Taylor. Jim Brown additionally starred within the story of mercenaries within the Congo attempting to retrieve thousands and thousands of {dollars} in diamonds, some refugees and Mimieux’s character.
The following yr she starred with Albert Finney in “The Picasso Summer season,” a movie with a fabled and troubled historical past. Finney starred as a San Francisco artist married to Mimieux who turns into insecure after a celebration and decides to hunt inspiration by touring to Europe and discovering Picasso; Mimieux’s bored spouse jumps on the probability for such an journey.
The actress tried sequence tv with “The Most Lethal Recreation” in 1970-71, starring with George Maharis and Ralph Bellamy. Bellamy’s character led a group of impartial brokers who tackle particularly tough homicide instances, however the present’s run on ABC was temporary. Thereafter she appeared in TV motion pictures and a few characteristic movies together with “Skyjacked” (1972), wherein she starred with Heston and James Brolin; Daniel Petrie’s underwater sci-fier “The Neptune Issue” (1973), which additionally starred Ben Gazzara, Walter Pidgeon and Ernest Borgnine; “Journey Into Concern” (1975), additionally starring Sam Waterston and Zero Mostel; “Jackson County Jail” (1976), which additionally starred a younger Tommy Lee Jones; and Disney’s costly, effects-heavy 1979 movie “The Black Gap,” which additionally starred Anthony Perkins and Maximilian Schell.
For the 1984 CBS TV film “Obsessive Love,” Mimieux shared story credit score, was co-producer and starred reverse Simon MacCorkindale.
Mimieux drained sequence common tv once more with NBC’s 1985 primetime cleaning soap “Berrenger’s,” set amongst a household that owns and runs a New York division retailer, however the present’s run was temporary. She appeared on “The Love Boat” a few occasions, co-starred in a “Perry Mason” film in 1990, and made her final display screen look within the 1992 NBC TV film “Girl Boss.”
