Tom Lisanti

today’s 1969 actress of the day is Mimsy Farmer as a mysterious ex-pat who introduces an infatuated German college student to the drug-filled world of beautiful Ibiza in director Barbet Schroeder’s More, another favorite of mine. Farmer became a cult actress due to her fun drive-in movies such as Hot Rods to Hell; Riot on Sunset Strip; and Devil’s Angels. After doing the underrated Wild Racers with Fabian in Europe, she decided to stay there and a new career began appearing in French and Italian films. Read my interview with Mimsy in my BearManor Media book Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies.

today’s 1969 actress of the day is Alexandra Hay as a self-absorbed model/actress in Jacques Demy’s love letter to Los Angeles Model Shop co-starring Gary Lockwood, Anouk Aimee, and Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood Anne Randall. You’ll be hearing more about Alexandra (whose films include Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner; Skidoo; and The Love Machine) in the months to come.

today’s actress of the day is Deanna Lund from my fave #1969 TV show Land of the Giants. Lund’s movie career included Elvis movies (Spinout; Paradise, Hawaiian Style), spy movies (Out of Sight); and the gritty Frank Sinatra detective yarn Tony Rome. Read interview w/ her in my McFarland and Co. book Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema 

in honor of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood… is Yvette Mimieux in Three in the Attic. Though released in late 1968, it was one of the biggest box office hits of 1969 as coeds Judy Pace, Maggie Thrett, and Mimieux keep lothario stud Christopher Jones locked in the attic to drain him of his potency after they find out he has been banging them simultaneously. Read comments about its making from Thrett and writer Stephen Yafa in my BearManor Media book Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies.