Yvette Vickers
Born Aug. 26th, 1928 – Died 2010

As movie fans, especially when you are fans of the older black and white classics, we know that time catches up with the stars of these titles a lot sooner than we expect. A lot of the talent from those films in the ’50s and ’60s have long gone the way of becoming ghosts of Hollywood. But we know fans like us keep them alive in spirt, as well as in film. But there are some deaths that are so tragic, that it is just terrible. Yvette Vickers is one of them.

She started her career in the famous 1950’s film Sunset Boulevard, as “giggling girl on phone at party”. She would in little bit parts here and there, such as Reform School Girls (1957) and Short Cut to Hell (1957), which was James Cagney’s only film as a director. But her career never took off big, even after appearing in Playboy as a Playmate in 1959. Director Russ Meyer was actually the photographer for that layout. Her real claim to movie fame is for appearing in two horror classics, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959).

But after that, things just didn’t go her way. She still worked in a small parts here and there, but nothing to rekindle her career. But in 2010, her body was found in her hillside home overlooking Beverly Hills. The saddest part was that she had been dead for close to a year.

While she was known to be a recluse and didn’t have many friends, it is just so tragic that a person could have been dead for many months and that no one would even be checking up on them. But while she did have her struggles the later part of her life, she will always be remembered as a beautiful young woman who appeared in a couple of great and memorable films that fans will definitely keep alive.