Yvette Mimieux, Star of ‘The Time Machine,’ ‘The Black Hole,’ Dies at 80
19.01.2022 - 06:42
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Carmel Dagan Staff WriterActress Yvette Mimieux, who starred in movies including “Where the Boys Are,” “The Time Machine,” “Light in the Piazza,” “Toys in the Attic,” “Dark of the Sun” and “The Picasso Summer,” died Tuesday. She was 80.The beautiful blonde Mimieux made most of her films in the 1960s, but she was also among the stars of Disney’s 1979 sci-fi film “The Black Hole.”Among the films Mimieux made in 1960 were MGM’s glossy teen movie “Where the Boys Are,” in which four coeds including Mimieux’s Melanie head to Fort Lauderdale for spring break in search of fun and the “right” boy, and George Pal’s adaptation of H.G.
Wells’ “The Time Machine,” starring Rod Taylor and with Mimieux third billed as Weena, Taylor’s romantic interest, who lives among the Eloi, a peaceful race living in the year 802,701. In 1962 she appeared in four films, including the big-budget critical and commercial disaster “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” and “The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm,” in which she played the Princess.In the classic “Light in the Piazza” (later made into a musical that ultimately played Broadway in 2005), however, Mimieux had the interesting challenge of playing the beautiful, charming Clara, who is nevertheless mentally disabled as a result of a childhood head injury and thus very naive in the ways of the world.
Olivia de Havilland played Clara’s mother, who is extremely protective of her as they travel through Italy and highly alarmed when a young Italian in Florence (played with a rather unconvincing accent by George Hamilton) pursues Clara romantically. In “Diamond Head,” set in Hawaii, she played the sister of Charlton Heston’s Richard “King” Howland, the controlling, powerful agricultural titan (and
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