Vale – Yvette Vickers

Truly sad news has reached us this morning, coming out of Hollywood, with reports that Attack Of The 50-Foot Woman star Yvette Vickers has been found dead at her home. While the passing of anybody is sad anyway, the truly sad part of this story is that Vickers’ body was badly mummified, with authorities reporting that she’d been deceased for anywhere up to a year, before her body was found. Just awful.

Vickers played the lead role of “the woman” in 50-Foot Woman, as well as minor roles in Sunset Boulevarde (1950) and Attack Of The Giant Leeches. She appeared in a small role in Paul Newman’s Hud, and her final film was 1991’s Evil Spirits.

Vickers was born in 1936, meaning that today she would have been 75.

Who wrote this?

Rodney Twelftree

“Some people say I like films. Those people are wrong. I *love* films.” – Me. I said this.

Rodney has been writing about films for well over two decades, appreciates a good wine, the love of his wife and kids, and the affection of his dog and cats. He has a fondness of cheesy 90’s action and classic Hollywood, hates that physical media is disappearing, and wishes somebody would make a high-budget series of The Neverending Story.

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