Celebrity Biographies
Yvette Mimieux
He starred with Rod Taylor in “Time on His Hands”, an adaptation of the emblematic novel “The Time Machine” by HG Wells. Yvette Mimieux passed away on January 18, 2022, at the age of 80. As reported by her family, the medical report indicates that she died in her sleep, of natural causes.
Born on January 8, 1942 in Los Angeles, Yvette Carmen Mimieux was the daughter of a French and a Mexican. She got into the industry by a fluke. Jim Byron, a Hollywood producer, was piloting her private helicopter, when due to a technical problem she had to make an emergency landing, next to the Mimieux family home. He was captivated by the beauty of the young Yvette, so he proposed that she dedicate herself to her interpretation, and became her manager.
After appearing in episodes of television series, Yvette Mimieux made her film debut with Time in Your Hands , by George Pal, where she played Weena, a girl member of the Eloi, the leisure class of the future. When Rod Taylor ‘s characterfinds her, she is about to drown, without the other eloi doing anything to help. The next day, she gives him a garland of flowers. In the film, her character had a different destiny than in the book. “She was 17 when we shot it,” she recalled in an interview. “I was embarrassed, because suddenly I was on a set every day, surrounded by a hundred men, and I wasn’t even sure where they put the camera. They were talking about technical things that I didn’t understand, and I was embarrassed that they would notice of my ignorance.”
Next, Yvette Mimieux stood out as a dancing princess, in The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm , and appeared in numerous inconsequential films, such as Picasso’s Summer – with the Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín –, which she herself hated . ” Ray Bradbury wrote a script that was only 18 pages long, but the studio ordered us to make a film out of it. Albert Finney and I were in charge of the cast, but we didn’t understand anything. We did what we could, but it didn’t work out.” She achieved enormous success with Florida Beaches, in which she played a university student who took a vacation with her friends.
Divorced from Evan Harland Engber, whose marriage she had long kept secret for unknown reasons, Yvette Mimieux became a long-time partner of filmmaker Stanley Donen . She was later linked to businessman Howard F. Ruby, president emeritus and founder of Oakwood Worldwide.
Yvette Mimieux was under the command of Vincente Minnelli , in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , one of the great Hollywood flops in the 1960s. Her filmography includes Last Train to Katanga , Alarm! Hijacked Flight 502 , and Disney’s bold sci-fi title The Black Abyss , where she played a doctor. “We knew it was going to be a special film, because it didn’t look like the usual Disney movies, like Herbie torero . We had to shoot some scenes in a state of weightlessness. But I’m proud of the result.”
Yvette Mimieux retired from acting after a chapter in the 1992 series Lady Boss .