# Yvette Mimieux has died at 80 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [January 19, 2022, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059 "2022-01-19T15:10:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/1 "2022-01-19T15:10:16Z")
[Article](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/arts/yvette-mimieux-dead.html). Another object of my teen lust has gone. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/2 "2022-01-19T15:20:10Z")
I fell in love with her when I saw “The Time Machine” at the age of 8 and never stopped. She was a fine actress and a lovely woman. Yvette and Carol Lynley (another winsome blonde I loved as a youth), now both gone. God, I feel old. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/3 "2022-01-19T15:57:20Z")
Damn! I saw her in **The Time Machine** when it came out and then in **The Black Hole** in 1979, and she still looked good. According to Wikipedia and IMDB she was in a stack of other movies, but I don’t recall seeing them. I did see **The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm** , but didn’t recall that she had been in it. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/4 "2022-01-19T16:31:21Z")
I’ll always associate her name with the film **Snowbeast**. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/5 "2022-01-19T16:43:53Z")
Jackson County Jail made an indelible impression on this teen. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/6 "2022-01-19T19:40:27Z")
I found her very appealing in _Three in the Attic_ (1968), but was never that impressed by her acting. She’s fine in _The Time Machine_, but wasn’t given that much to do in _Dark of the Sun_ (1968), an otherwise decent action movie and one of the best films she was in. Apart from a nude horse ride, she is unmemorable in _Diamond Head_ (1962). And I know I watched _Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell_ (1978), but I don’t recall it - or her in it - at all. Watching employee humiliation at a corporate retreat not being my idea of entertainment, I have not seen _Circle of Power_ (1981), but reviews locate her performance as somewhere between laughable and effective as the boss of the operation. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/7 "2022-01-19T22:16:43Z")
Just watched her in _The Time Machine_. It was on TCM. She was gorgeous, and as fine an actress as that role required. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/8 "2022-01-19T23:31:35Z")
All I can recall of _Devil Dog: Hound of Hell_ is a still photograph of a dad and a daughter staring goofily at an innocuous looking dog with its tongue lolling as dog tongues tend to do. The caption under the photo read, “Satan, disguised here as a german shepherd, terrorizes a suburban family.” ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/9 "2022-01-20T01:27:04Z")
I just watched _The Time Machine_ last night. She didn’t really have any acting to do, but she did it well. Unless she really was acting… ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/10 "2022-01-20T15:06:08Z")
Oh my, sorry to hear that. I remember her in > **[Light in the Piazza (1962) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056183/)** > > Light in the Piazza: Directed by Guy Green. With Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton. Upper class Americans Noel and Meg Johnson have a twenty-six year old daughter named Clara Johnson. Clara suffered a head injury as... Get out the hankies for that one… I had gotten used to the old time Hollywood stars moving to the Back Lot in the sky (are ANY of them left?), but now it’s the ingenues who are departing this life… IOW, the people in my age group… ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/11 "2022-01-20T22:15:41Z")
My teenaged brain permanently stored a Life magazine cover of her with a surfboard. (Easily googled, so I won’t post it) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/12 "2022-01-21T19:33:49Z")
I was always disappointed she didn’t have a French accent. My main memory of her was her TV Guide ad for a long-forgotten movie [Joy in the Morning (1965)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059339/reference). ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/13 "2022-01-21T21:42:21Z")
She was so cute in her little frocks in ‘Light in the Piazza’ - though I wonder how likely that marriage would have been IRL… She was also cute but had the grim role as a rape victim in ‘Where The Boys Are.’ ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/14 "2022-01-21T21:47:10Z")
Yvette Mimieux [was reported](https://www.metv.com/stories/rip-yvette-mimieux-the-first-actress-to-bare-her-belly-button-on-tv) to have had the first female navel shown on TV. > Still, she holds a unique place in TV history. She was the first woman to bare her navel on the small screen. > > The event happened in the two-part Dr. Kildare episode “Tyger, Tyger,” in 1964. Perhaps moralists allowed it because her character perished atop a surfboard in the end, dying in the manly arms of Richard Chamberlain. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/15 "2022-01-21T21:49:21Z")
Yeah, transgressions like that had to be punished by onscreen death. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/16 "2022-01-22T01:57:16Z")
I was eight or nine when I fell madly in love with Richard Chamberlain on “Dr Kildare.” Yvette was his love interest, I think it was a two-part story, and I always held a grudge against her in my pre-teen heart. They had a magic together, which led to the making of the movie “Joy in the Morning.” The magic was excellent acting, since Richard Chamberlain is gay. She was a beautiful lady. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/17 "2022-01-22T08:40:46Z")
If my math is right, since Dwayne Hickman died, then Yvette Mimieux; then either Richard Chamberlain or Tuesday Weld is a gonner. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvette-mimieux-has-died-at-80/958059/18 "2022-01-22T13:44:34Z")
Loved her the the greatest movie ever made, The Neptune Factor.