During the sixties one of the most popular go-go girls on TV was Lada Edmund, Jr. who shimmied and gyrated on Hullabaloo. She went on to co-star in such films as For Those Who Think Young with James Darren and Pamela Tiffin and Out of It with Jon Voight. Click here to hear a recent internet radio interview with her.
Van Williams Speaks
Click here to read a wonderful interview by Michael Barnum with sixties actor Van Williams most famous for playing The Green Hornet on TV. To me, he was one of the most handsome young actors of the decade and it is mind-boggling why he never became a leading man in movies.
He comments on working with a number of starlets including Fantasy Femme Diane McBain (pictured below with Van and Troy Donahue from Surfside 6 TV series) and Drive-in Dream Girl Wende Wagner.
Click here to access cult 60s actress Mimsy Farmer’s new web site showcasing her art work and watch YouTube clip at bottom as she trips out on acid in Riot on Sunset Strip (1967).
This fragile-looking blonde began her career as the ingenue on television and on the big screen in Spencer’s Mountain (1963) and Bus Riley’s Back in Town (1965). She found more success playing a string of bad girls and misunderstood youths in such exploitation film classics as Hot Rods to Hell (1967), Devil’s Angels (1967), and The Wild Racers (1968). Farmer reached her pinnacle with More (1969), her first foreign film, which warned of the excesses of the counterculture as she played an American hippie who draws an innocent German (Klaus Grunberg) into the world of heroin and LSD on an island off of Spain.
She later relocated to Italy and worked steadily until the late eighties. She appeared in Dario Argento’s Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971), among many other European horror films.
In 1966, sultry Pamela Tiffin fled an unhappy marriage and Hollywood to work in Italy where she appeared in almost 15 films only 3 of which made it to the shores of the U.S. Below are three songs performed by Piero Umiliani (whom I never heard of before) from L’Archangelo a 1969 crime caper starring Pamela and Vittorio Gassman. Such a cool sound. Where can I buy the CD soundtrack!?!