The late Lyn Edgington was a pretty sandy blonde with All-American girl-next-door appeal who specialized in playing fun-loving coeds on the big screen. Lyn made her film debut playing a proud college coed who leads Sandra Dee and other students in a sit-in (“Bottoms always on the floor!”) protesting book censorship in the comedy Take Her, She’s Mine (1963) starring James Stewart. She then transferred universities when cast as one of Carol Lynley’s envious college classmates who revel in the coed’s plan to live platonically with her boyfriend Dean Jones to see if they are marriage compatible in the comedy Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963) also starring Jack Lemmon as an amorous playboy landlord determined to deflower Lynley. She played another perky coed who challenges poet James Stewart’s diatribe against science in the comedy, Dear Brigitte (1965).
But her most memorable appearance was in Girl Happy (1965). Coeds Lyn and Chris Noel convince roommate Shelley Fabares to defy her father Harold J. Stone and join them on a jaunt to Fort Lauderdale for Spring Break. However, the coeds aren’t as clever as they think as Stone hires Elvis Presley and his combo to secretly chaperone the trio while performing at a local nightclub. As the girls drive south they sing the snappy tune “Spring Fever” along with Elvis and the guys in a scene that cuts back and forth between them. As the naïve friend who thinks boys prefer the brainy types, Lyn has a few amusing moments at the hotel when the manager threatens to evict the three girls for having a boy in the room even though they were only playing cards. Later on the beach Edgington feels uncomfortable and suggests to her friends that she feels like they are being stared at unaware that Gary Crosby is spying on them from a nearby sand dune. The gals later get drunk and wind up in the slammer when a melee breaks out at a club where Fabares decides to do a sloppy impromptu strip tease.
The Loved One (1965) was Lyn’s last film of the decade and was relegated to the small screen for the remainder of the decade with roles on Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and three appearances on The FBI. In 1971, Lyn co-starred in the very popular Dirty Harry (1971) where she reunited with Clint Eastwood playing a hard-boiled San Francisco detective who throws away the rule book in tracking a perverted psycho nicknamed the Scorpio Killer who has kidnapped and murdered a number of women chosen at random. As the wife of Eastwood’s injured partner Reni Santoni, Lyn has a poignant scene where she confesses to Eastwood her insecurities of being married to a cop. She continued acting in minor parts on television until the late seventies and then retired to raise her family. She passed away in 2005.
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