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.
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.