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Yvette Mimieux (born January 8, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) is an actress with a French father and a Mexican mother. In 1960, she appeared in the teen movie, Where The Boys Are but probably her most famous role was in George Pal's 1960 motion picture version of H.G. Wells' novel, The Time Machine, co-starring Rod Taylor.
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Yvette Mimieux is her real name; yet it sounds more like an anagram or a code phrase devised by aliens, vaguely but discernibly inventive. Her hair is naturally blonde, yet it is so impossibly pale, so much closer to moonlight than to anything found on any ordinary human head, that it seems the product of a prop department. Her complexion, clear as ice and the untroubled color of early dawn, hints of a makeup artist. Her eyes, too, momentarily blue, then grey, then aquamarine, then green, look to be explicable only if they are not eyes at all but varying sets of colored contact lenses. Everything about her suggests that she is not a real girl, but simply a contrivance, like a myth, put together by the gods (or publicity people), who dreamed her perfect.
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Synopsis: Dinah (Yvette Mimieux) has had a string of bad luck. In a previous film, Jackson County Jail, she was driving from Los Angeles to New York, and her car, her money and all her identification papers are stolen from her. A series of misunderstandings and false charges land her in jail, where a maleRead More
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Yvette Mimieux delivers a sensitive, nuanced performance in a role that could have easily spread into a cheap exploitation turn in Jackson County Jail. Mimieux plays advertising executive Dinah Hunter, who leaves Los Angeles and a promising career after she discovers her lover has been cheating on her. Determined to start fresh in New York City, she gets into her car and heads east. Picking up some young hitchhikers along the way, she ends up stranded in an out-of-the-way western town after being beaten up and having her car stolen. Thrown into the local jailhouse on trumped up charges, she finds herself at the mercy of a psychopathic guard who further beats her and then rapes her. Dinah kills the jailkeeper and goes on the lam with fellow jailhouse inmate and down-home radical Coley Blake (Tommy Lee Jones).
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In this film, teenagers Angie (Connie Francis), Merrit (Dolores Hart), Melanie (Yvette Mimieux), and Tuggle (Paula Prentiss) travel to Fort Lauderdale, Florida on their spring vacation in hope of finding excitement and romance. With hordes of available young men around, the girls must discover what they really want in a relationship. -- Iotis Erlewine from allmovie.com
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Description: On a cross country driving trip, a young professional woman (Yvette Mimieux) is confronted with a series of violent attacks and injustices which culminate in her arrest. After she is raped by her vulgar small town jailer, she escapes with a fellow prisoner.
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