In younger days.
Posted on 05/02/2011 3:20:15 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
Yvette Vickers, an early Playboy playmate whose credits as a B-movie actress included such cult films as “Attack of the 50-Foot Woman” and “Attack of the Giant Leeches,” was found dead last week at her Benedict Canyon home. Her body appears to have gone undiscovered for months, police said.
Vickers, 82, had not been seen for a long time. A neighbor discovered her body in an upstairs room of her Westwanda Street home on April 27. Its mummified state suggests she could have been dead for close to a year, police said.
The official cause of death will by determined by the Los Angeles county coroner's office, but police said they saw no sign of foul play.
Vickers had lived in the 1920s-era stone and wood home for decades, and it served as the background for some of her famous modeling pictures. But over time it had become dilapidated, exposed in some places to the elements.
Susan Savage, an actress, went to check on Vickers after noticing old letters and cobwebs in her elderly neighbor's mailbox.
"The letters seemed untouched and were starting to yellow," Savage said. "I just had a bad feeling."
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In younger days.
Mummified? So the coroner has to decide, “death by dehydration” versus “dehydration after death.” I guess it’s to be in a dry climate... keeps the insects down.
Is this an ad for “Life Alert”?
that’s “nice to be in a dry climate...”
I remember that movie the Attack of the 50 Foot Woman very well. Weird.
She was big in movies.
I just watched it the other day. Well, most of it.
July 1959, if anyone is interested. RIP.
Maybe that movie was warning about the coming of Feminism as we know it today.
I remember the part where she walked into high power lines wearing a bra and underpants. It was quite racy for its day.
No bills or junk mail for a year?
That’s funny, but I think she played the chick in the club/bar that the 50ft tall womans’ philandering husband was fooling with, not the big lady. She gets crushed by lumber and debris after the 50ft tall woman rips the roof off the bar to get that rat bastard husband.
Or friends or relatives to check on her? Sad. Getting old is hell on so many people, and not just physically. The isolation, depression... brutal.
I remember the movie. I worked for a Marine reserve Major who cowrote the script for that movie. He said that it was not his best effort and for years he denied any part in it. He also cowrote some of the Lash Larou scripts.
That’s the “before” now where’s the “after”?
"I'm mummified and I can't get up!"
My mistake then, but I did enjoy the movie as a kid.
I have looked for a free, legal download (such as movie archive) a number of times in recent years, but to no avail.
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