Today’s starlet from 1969 is Pamela Tiffin in the funny satire Viva Max. This was Pamela’s first Hollywood movie since she went blonde and fled to Rome in 1967. She is a college coed who is taken hostage while working at the Alamo when Mexican General Peter Ustinov and his ragtag bunch of soldiers retake the Alamo for Mexico. More on her and the making of Viva Max in my book Pamela Tiffin: Hollywood To Rome from McFarland and Co.
each day I will feature one of my fave 60s starlets from 1969.
Today Carol Lynley as a psychotic heiress in the trashy country club set Once You Kiss a Stranger a remake of Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train. More on Carol in my tribute book Carol Lynley: Lady in Peril coming in early 2020 from BearManor Media,
If you are like me and can’t wait for this summer’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood from director Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate, then get a jump and read what is was like being a working actress in 1960s Hollywood directly from the mouths of such lovely actresses who lived through it such as Pamela Tiffin, Diane McBain, Salli Sachse, Lana Wood, Celeste Yarnall, Francine York, Deanna Lund, Irene Tsu, Marlyn Mason, Donna Loren, Hilarie Thompson, Sue Ane Langdon, Carole Wells, Beverly Washburn, Anne Randall, Victoria Carroll, Corinne Cole, Bobbie Shaw, Valerie Starrett, Diane Bond, Darlene Tompkins, Quinn O’Hara, Nancy Czar, Lada Edmund, Jr., Maggie Thrett, plus many more in my various books from McFarland and Company and BearManor Media.
one of my favorite 1960’s movies Model Shop opened. Director Jacques Demy’s sumptuously filmed paean to Los Angeles starring tight jean clad Gary Lockwood as a drafted architect spending his last day of freedom before army duty & the women he encounters. Anouk Aimee (of A Man and a Woman fame) as a mysterious French model he becomes infatuated with. Baby doll blonde Alexandra Hay as his grasping starlet girlfriend. Hilarie Thompson as a hitchhiking hippie. And Anne Randall as the model shop’s receptionist. LA never looked more inviting and Anne talks making the movie in my McFarland book Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood.