Yvette Vickers
Also Known As: Yvette lola Vedder
Biography: Yvette Vickers (born Yvette Iola Vedder) was an American actress, pin-up model and singer. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles, and studied journalism. While at UCLA, she took a class in acting and discovered that she enjoyed it, so she changed her major to drama. She began making television commercials. Her last film appearance was in the 1991 horror film, "Evil Spirits." Yvette Vickers mummified body was discovered by actress and neighbor Susan Savage on April 27, 2011, in her home at 10021 Westwanda Drive, Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Birthday: August 26, 1928
Deathday: January 01, 2010
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Gender: Female
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The Movie Orgy
Overview: Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Genres: Comedy Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Attack of the Giant Leeches
Overview: A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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Hud
Overview: Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-28
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Evil Spirits
Overview: A dark comedy thriller that manages to skillfully blend humor and mystery into one incredible film from its thrilling beginning to the shocking climax! The superb all-star cast is a unique collection of characters who find themselves with one very special thing in common -- they are all boarders of Mrs. Ella Purdy (Karen Black) and totally dependent upon her gracious nature. The suspense mounts as, one-by-one, they fall sacrifice to ominous secrets enshrined within the walls of her foreboding house! Murder and mayhem prevail throughout the tense but often humorous situations as each victim draws nearer to his or her fate.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Dead Don't Die
Overview: In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn into the occult world.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-14
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What's the Matter with Helen?
Overview: Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-30
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Reform School Girl
Overview: A teen girl is thrown into reform school for refusing to squeal on her delinquent boyfriend where she ends up meeting his ex-girlfriend and the jealous tempers fly.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-01
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Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
Overview: When an abused wife grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-18
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Short Cut to Hell
Overview: A hitman is found out because he was paid off in traceable stolen money. On the run, he kidnaps the girlfriend of the police detective in charge of his pursuit; she tries to convince him to surrender before it's too late.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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I, Mobster
Overview: The rise and fall of gang lord Joe Sante. A crime boss appears before a Senate subcommittee. A flashbacks tell his story.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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Juvenile Jungle
Overview: Planned kidnapping goes awry when gang leader falls for the victim.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-24
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Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
Overview: From THINGS to BODY SNATCHERS to CREATURES FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, sci-fi monsters dominated 1950s horror. Take a ride to an era of drive-ins, Red Scares, low budgets and big bugs with SPACE INVADERS AND DRIVE INS.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-12
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Sunset Boulevard
Overview: A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-10
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Pressure Point
Overview: An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-10
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Beach Party
Overview: Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-07
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