Yvette Vickers

Yvette Vickers was an American actress and singer who also worked as a pin-up model and began in television commercials after studying drama at the University of California, Los Angeles. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, she traveled with her jazz musician father's performances during her youth. She appeared uncredited in Sunset Boulevard (1950) and made her first film under the Vickers name in Short Cut to Hell (1957), directed by James Cagney. She played Honey Parker in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) and Liz Walker in Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959), and she was Playboy's Playmate of the Month in July 1959. Smaller parts followed, including a role in Hud (1963), and her last part was in the 1991 horror film Evil Spirits. She also recorded a jazz tribute to her parents and appeared at the Toronto Classic Movie Festival.