Born in Kansas City Missouri to a Jazz musician she traveled the country with her parents for work and eventually settled in Los Angeles. Vickers studied at UCLA starting as a journalism major but found she liked acting and changed majors. It was while attending UCLA She started making local television commercials. Upon graduation Yvette moved to New York to do some modeling work. She soon found herself back in Los Angeles where she made her first film appearance in an un-credited role in "Sunset Boulevard". This sadly was the most high brow film she was ever to be involved in. One of her next films was "Reform School Girls" but her masterpiece was "The Attack of the 50 Foot Woman". Vickers mad a few more films including "Attack of the Giant Leeches". "Beach Party" and "What's the Matter With Helen?". It was TV that was her bread and butter. She made guest appearances on TV through out the 1960's and 1970's. Her last film role was in the movie "Evil Spirits". During the 1990's Vickers released a jazz CD dedicated to her parents. In 1959 Vickers was Playmate of the Month in Playboy Magazine. Russ Myers shot her centerfold.
The five foot three inch Yvette Vickers was married three times and was a in long-time relationship with Jim Hutton. She was also know as being the date of Lee Marvin and Cary Grant. Her life in later years was very quite although she would make appearances and do autograph events. Her neighbors described her as very nice and very quiet, keeping to her self.
The quiet life is what makes her death so sad. no one had noticed she wasn't around. It was finally a mail man who figured out that something wasn't right. When her house was entered and her body discovered it was well over a year since anyone had last seen her.
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