Yvette Vickers
Yvette Vickers, actually Yvette Vedder, ( born August 26, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri, † 2010 in Benedict Canyon presumably, Los Angeles) was an American actress, singer and former Playmate.
Life
Vickers was the daughter of jazz musician Charles Vedder and his wife Iola Mary. In her youth she traveled with her parents to America. She later began a journalism degree at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA). In addition to her studies, she began to work as an actress. She then went to New York City and got the role as White Rain Girl in a shampoo commercial that later Vickers returned to Los Angeles. There she began her acting career and got her first small role in the film - noir drama Sunset Boulevard.
In 1957 she slept with the pseudonym Yvette Vickers and got her first starring role in the thriller The Satan to you. This was followed by the lead role as Honey Parker in the science fiction cult film Attack of the 20 Foot Woman and a year later in Attack of the Giant Leeches. In July 1959, she was Playboy Playmate of the Month.
In 1991, she played her last role in the B-movie horror film Evil Spirits and returned in 1999 for the last time back for a role in the controversial comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 before the camera. In 2005 she returned as a special guest back to the stage and joined the Toronto Classic Movie Festival on. There she was interviewed by journalist Tom Weaver. The interview took place later as an audio track on the DVD release of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman of the year 2007.
After she left her acting career have been suspended since 1991, Vickers focused on a career as a singer. After the album Yvette Vickers Sings, she published with Tribute to Charlie and Maria a jazz album on which she performed songs from her parents.
The body was mummified on April 27, 2011 in her home in Benedict Canyon found by a neighbor, actress Susan Savage. According to police, the former Playmate was at her discovery probably dead for almost a year
Vickers was married from 1953 to 1957 with the musician Don Prell. There followed a brief 1959 marriage to Leonard Burns, from whom she was divorced a few months later.