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Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
Wed Jan 19, 2022, 05:18 PM Jan 2022

Yvette Mimieux, 1960s starlet of 'Time Machine,' dies at 80

NEW YORK (AP) — 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. She was 80.

Michelle Bega, a family spokeswoman, said Mimieux died in her sleep of natural causes overnight Monday evening at her home in Los Angeles.

In 1960's "The Time Machine," based on H.G. 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.

That role and others that soon followed made Mimieux one of the '60s most radiant starlets. 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. Her character, distraught after being sexual assaulted in a motel, walks despondently into traffic.

https://krcgtv.com/news/entertainment/yvette-mimieux-60s-starlet-of-time-machine-dies-at-80

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Yvette Mimieux, 1960s starlet of 'Time Machine,' dies at 80 (Original Post) Sherman A1 Jan 2022 OP
Aw...I'm sorry to hear it. She was absolutely radiant Glorfindel Jan 2022 #1
80....oof....lusted after her... bahboo Jan 2022 #2
;-{)🖖‍ Goonch Jan 2022 #3
i loved her and when i read of her death last night I was hoping someone would mention it here samnsara Jan 2022 #4

Glorfindel

(9,725 posts)
1. Aw...I'm sorry to hear it. She was absolutely radiant
Wed Jan 19, 2022, 05:37 PM
Jan 2022

I remember her also from "Doctor Kildare" on television and the Disney movie "The Black Hole."

R.I.P.

samnsara

(17,615 posts)
4. i loved her and when i read of her death last night I was hoping someone would mention it here
Wed Jan 19, 2022, 06:32 PM
Jan 2022

..so thanks!

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