Pamela Tiffin
Pamela Tiffin ( born October 13, 1942 as Pamela Tiffin Wonso in Oklahoma City, USA ) is a former American actress.
Life and work
Pamela Tiffin was born as the only child of architect Stanley Wonso and his wife Grace in Oklahoma. At the age of 13, she began working as a model and after her high school graduation she moved to New York to further their career. There she became a successful model and was, among other things pictured on the cover of Vogue magazine.
In 1960 Tiffin learned during a visit to Los Angeles the producer Hal B. Wallis know, who invited her to screen test for the film Summer and Smoke. Back in New York Tiffin was offered the role in summer and smoke. Coincidentally, also took Billy Wilder contact her on, she was noticed in an ad for underwear in the New York Times. This led to Tiffin in 1961, first made her screen debut in the summer and smoke, and then played in the same year in One, Two, Three by Billy Wilder with James Cagney and Horst Buchholz. While it was praised for cautious former film by critics, she gained a greater awareness by the latter film. At the Golden Globe Awards 1962, she was nominated twice identical, for one, two, three for Best Supporting Actress and for Summer and Smoke as Best Young Actress of the year. Even before her first two films were released, Tiffin began with the shooting of a third film, Texas show.
1962 Pamela Tiffin Clay Felker got to know, an editor of Esquire, whom she married in the same year. Although she wanted to give up acting in favor of a family, her husband encouraged her to continue working as an actress. She kept shooting films and television series in 1967 and moved to Italy to escape her unhappy marriage. Many of the films were made there Italian not published in the United States. The marriage with Felker was finally divorced in 1969.
In February 1969 appeared in the U.S. Playboy photo gallery of scantily clad Pamela Tiffin, over which the actress was very unhappy. Playboy had already made her more offers and offer up to $ 100,000 for shooting, but Tiffin was not clearly spelled out. When she got the offer to appear unclothed in a movie, she had a supposed friend take pictures of. Because they do not feel comfortable with the result, she refused the role. The images, however, came to the playboy who printed them in the said pictures below. Tiffin waived legal action to gain yet more attention to the matter.
1974 Tiffin married her second husband Edmondo Danon and ended her film career. The couple had two daughters together, Echo and Aurora ( * 1981 ), and lived together in New York and Illinois. In 1986, Tiffin once more in the Italian television film Rose.