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26 August 1928

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Kansas City, Missouri

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Yvette Vickers (August 26, 1928 — circa 2010) was an American actress, pin-up model and singer.

26 August 35 is born in Kansas City, Missouri, daughter of jazz saxophonist Charles Vedder and his wife Maria Late 40s attends a Catholic high school in Los Angeles 50 billed as Yvette Vedder, she performs in local little theater productions as an actress and dancer is discovered by director Billy Wilder, who casts her in a bit part in the classic Sunset Boulevard. She changes her professional name to Yvette Vickers. 51 enters UCLA at age 16, eventually earning her B.A. in theater arts 53 marries bass player Don Prell, a member of The Bud Shank Quartet 54 is the White Rain girl in a nationally televised shampoo commercial 55 divorces Prell 56 begins to work a lot on episodic TV and dates actor Ben Cooper 57 is seen by James Cagney and Paramount executive A.C. Lyles while appearing on the Los angeles stage in Bus Stop and is given her first co-starring role in the Paramount film Short Cut to Hell dates her Reform School Girl co-star Edd "Kookie" Byrnes 58 flirts with Rory Calhoun, her co-star in the Universal-International Western, The Saga of Hemp Brown also dates Steve Cochran, the star of I, Mobster, in which she has a bit part as a sexy junkie loses out on juicy roles in This Earth is Mine and Imitation of Life will become a top cult-movie queen via her co-starring role in the classic Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman 59 marries writer Leonard Burns, but divorces him quickly resumes dating several Hollywood actors, including Lee Marvin becomes a health food advocate and follows a beatnik lifestyle in Hollywood July 59 is Playboy`s "Playmate of the Month" in a sexy spread photographed by the renowned Russ Meyer. As a result of the favorable publicity her centerfold generates, she wins a co-starring role in a prestigious Broadway play, The Gang`s All Here, a show that runs for one year. 60 meets actor Ralph Meeker, with whom she has an on-again off-again, bi-coastal relationship for the next five years back on the West Coast, she guest stars on a host of television shows and continues to model for various glamour girl magazines 61 has an affair with Cary Grant, which ends when he proposes marriage to actress Dyan Cannon. He and Yvette remain good friends until his death. 63 gets a juicy role in the acclaimed Paul Newman film, Hud, only to have most of her scenes cut when Newman`s wife Joanne Woodward objects to the onscreen chemistry between her husband and Yvette November 63 gets rave reviews for her performance in the stage play Grand Guignol, at Los Angeles`s New Club. Several other Hollywood stage plays follow. 64 meets actor Jim Hutton, with whom she falls in love. For the next 14 years, the two are virtually inseparable, but never marry. 69 following a spat with Hutton, she impulsively flies to Las Vegas and marries actor Tom Holland. After a quick divorce, she and Hutton reunite. 70s goes into real estate sales and investments to make money for her retirement years and does quite well for herself. Continues to act sporadically in films, on stage, and in television. June 79 her often-tempestuous relationship with Hutton ends with his death from cancer 80s abandons her career to help care for her parents, who suffer from ill health 89 to her fans` delight, she records her first album of blues, jazz ,and classic pop ballads, "Yvette Vickers Sings!," which she distributes herself. She puts together a cabaret act and performs in various L.A. clubs. 91 attempts a film comeback with the horror entry Evil Spirits, but sees many of her scenes cut Mid-90s continues to polish her cabaret act and to successfully manage her real estate holdings 00 releases a jazz CD, "A Tribute to Charlie and Maria," in honor of her late parents 02 enjoys a resurgence in her career and plans two future recording projects, both scheduled for release in 2003 03 begins work on her autobiography

Yvette Vedder

Actor/Actress

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White Rain shampoo commercial

Attack of the Giant Leeches, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman

sexuality

27 April 2010

Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, California

Charles Vedder

Maria Vedder

Actress/Singer/Model/Real Estate agent

UCLA

heart failure

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