sixties

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Celebrating upcoming birthdays are Starlets Arlene Martel, Maureen Arthur, and Melody Patterson. Arlene was a busy actress who was all over the small screen during the Swinging Sixties playing a variety of roles including Spock’s intended Vulcan wife on Star Trek and a Russian spy on The Monkees. Check out a clip on YouTube.

Maureen is best known for her role as the busty gold digger Heddy LaRue in How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying. She also sang the title tune and co-starred in the low-budget James Bond rip-off, A Man Called Dagger. Check out a tribute on YouTube. Maureen will be featured in my upcoming book, Pinups in Sixties Hollywood.

Finally Melody (pictured) is warmly remembered for playing shapely cowgirl Wrangler Jane on the comedy series, F Troop.

Brrrrr

April in New York City has been colder than January. To keep the straight boys warm at night, they’ll need the ski honeys from Winter a-Go-Go. Check out the trailer on YouTube and watch Jill Donohue, Nancy Czar, Julie Parrish, Beverly Adams, Linda Rogers, and Arlene Charles shake and shimmy to an icy cool beat. You can read more about the latter three in my upcoming book Pinups in Sixties Hollywood.

FRANCINE YORK

One of the most talented and hard working Glamazons of the Sixties was the gorgeous Francine York. She was at her best playing the bad girl such as the noble Niolani (pictured at left) who imprisons the Robinson men on Lost in Space.

In 1973, York, in a change of pace role, played the ass-kicking heroine and leader of The Doll Squad whose members included another man-basher Tura Satana. It is Grade-Z grindhouse cheese but you wouldn’t expect anything less in a film with Francine in the lead from the director of The Astro-Zombies. Check out the trailer on YouTube.

PAMELA TIFFIN

One of my favorite Sixties starlets of all time is Pamela Tiffin. To me she is one of the most stunningly beautiful actresses of the decade with real comedic talent. The detective film Harper (1966) starring Paul Newman features one of her best performances. Check out her infamous scene as she does a bikini dance on top of a diving board in this YouTube clip.