Mid 1950's to Mid 60's *** STARLETS *** STARLETS *** STARLETS ***

Her daughter was one of the James Toback accusers.

Another similar Pamela -

It looks like her face was photoshopped in

Pamela Tiffin

I did grrreat baby! Sure there was Rome Adventure, but I also replaced Bancroft in Miracle Worker and Hitchcock had a bunch of birds kill me. I had the stuff it takes and made sure my Starlet period was a brief one.

Here’s Pamela wearing rings on her toes. No, not toe-rings, actual rings. On her toes.

Darker hair suits Miss Tiffin....

I friend of mine in conversation told Douglas Carter Beane that Suzanne Pleshette played Broadway in "The Miracle Worker" He said, "She found all the laughs."

You’re quite a number, dollface.

I think it was on Johnny Carson when Miss Pleshette said somehow she got out of doing Palm Springs Weekend and Miss Stefanie Powers had to do it and she didn't know if she'd ever forgiven her.

I really liked Dorothy Provine.

Miss Dorothy Provine in....

Virna was a doll. She deserved more fame.

Pamela Tiffin was a good actress. She was great playing an airhead Southern belle in Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three.

Pamela Anderson is just an airhead.

A trifecta!!!

Would we consider Carol Lynlee a starlet? Shelly Faberes?

Carol Lynley most definitely r16! Not so much Miss Shelley Fabares.

And Paula Prentis? Pretty, witty but a Starlette? Too Jewish?

Paula Prentiss isn't Jewish. She is from a Sicilian family and raised in Houston. Hence the trace of a Southern accent.

And her starlet years were short. She became a leading actress in comedies of the 60s.

LOL, R8, thanks. An anecdote I will definitely repeat.

The sultry Miss Joi Lansing....

Barbara Bouchet

Jill St. John was the eternal starlet, which made her an exception. Pamela Tiffin wasn't quite as eternal but was labelled starlet for a long time.

Shelly Fabares had done years of television, which negates starlet-hood.

Starlets usually were neophytes---they usually did not have prior credits from "the legitimate theater" (nor would most of them ever be cast there) or from tv. Many started in grade z-movies or as Playboy centerfolds or featured models in low rent playboy knockoffs.

The Champion's Alexandra Bastedo. Beautiful. Probably best known to DLers as Penny Caspar-Morse in AbFab.

Alexandra

Stella Stevens!

What am I, chopped liver?

Carol Lynley had done a Broadway play about teens and abortion called "Blue Denim" She found all the laughs, And she did go on to starlettewood.

Yvette Mimieux

Elke Sommer

Michele Carey

Quentin Dean

Diane Varsi

Nancy Kovack pretty much quit tv and film when she married Zubin Mehta in 1969.

Wiki ... feet?

Daliah Lavi

Tina Marquand, daughter of Jean Pierre Aumont & Maria Montez

Jacqueline Bisset

Sharon Tate

Nancy Kwan

Shelby Grant, retired when she married Chad Everett in '66

Raquel Welch

Beverly Adams later married then divorced Vidal Sassoon.

Kathy Kersh, married tv' Ben Casey then Robin, The Boy Wonder

Lana Wood

Barbara Parkins

Jane Fonda

Camilla Sparv

Catherine Spaak

Anne Francis

Susan Harrison

Tina Louise

Julie Newmar

Leslie Parrish

Deanna Lund

Fran Jeffries

Stella Stevens

Tina Cole

E.J. Peaker

Nina Wayne

Donna Michelle

Chris Noel

Joey Heatherton

Asa Maynor

Alena Johnston

Irene Tsu

Jocelyn Lane

Gayle Hunnicutt

Luana Anders

R15, how dare you include me with those other actresses, who are indeed starlets. I am not in the same category as them.

-- Diane Baker

Julie Newmar, who signed a picture to Wong Foo, Jane Fonda, Tina Louise and, yes Carol Lynley had all done Broadway. Does that disqualify them from starlet status? I should like to think not.

OP here, r71. I don't think it disqualifies them. I would, on the other hand, disqualify someone like Miss Katharine Cornell had she gotten under contract at one of the studios and appeared bikini clad in features like Wild Waikiki Weekend.

That photo of Virna Lisi looks like a mashup of Marilyn Monroe and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Linda Evans

If she went by Kitty Cornell ...

Diane McBain

Oh I think it would have been Kathy Cornell r75.

I think I'd consider Jill to be the ultimate Starlet. Stayed vaguely current for YEARS based on early on accomplishments that never rose above Starlet level endeavors. Not unlike Miss Arlene Dahl.

Given Barbie had already taken the occupational title of "model", I guess IDEAL had to go with "starlet" for Carol Brent.

Anjanette Comer

Annette Stroyberg

Has Sue Ane been mentioned?

Why no Connie Stevens? Why why why?

We've been remiss r83. She's absolutely a Charter Member!

Donna Douglas was a starlet for at least a decade, until she achieved immortality as Elly May Clampett.

Bella Darvi

Genevieve Giles

Beverly Willis

Pamela Rodgers

Elaine Giftos

Susan Silo

De Havilland

Diana Dors

Yvonne Craig

Barbara Nichols

Oh, Miss Yvonne Craig r87......

Christine Kaufmann

R70

Now TL, you stop that !!

I've only heard of a handful of these ladies...did most of them marry well or die in poor obscurity?

R70, that Diane Baker thread was one of my all-time DL favorites — so juicy and fun.

And as for her, anyone who was Miss Rheingold has no business saying she wasn’t a starlet!

R91, Gayle Hunnicutt at R68 was a Texan beauty who married British journalist Sir Simon Jenkins and became Lady Jenkins. So, yes she married well and lived in a stately manner on Primrose Hill. The couple divorced in 1978, and she went on to appear in several episodes of Dallas as JR's old flame Vanessa Beaumont.

It would appear that Miss Jean Peters made no bones about her Starletness.

Cannot find a recent picture of Pamela Tiffin - she seems to have dropped out of sight

I would think their vehicle of choice would be a little more......glamorous.

Ewa Aulin

Jeepers, they even had their own vegetable brand!

Cynthia Patrick.

Miss Mary Ann Mobley. I'm assuming having Miss America on her resume helped in not having some precipitous and tawdry downfall in either her career or personal life.

All of these Starlets had big footsteps to fill.....

Was Sandra Dee considered a starlet? Maybe not as she was the Star of most of her pictures.

I think you have to consider whether or not she did a Starlet stint before becoming a Star r102.

I can't find anything recent either, r95.

I guess there's a book but it only seems to go to 1974.

Another trifecta photo.....

R32, Are you SURE THAT's not a drag queen ?

Tracy Reed

Tahnee Welch

Wende Wagner

Elaine Stewart

R93 R104

Pamela lives on W. 67th St in Manhattan. Her face isn't too bad considering she's 75 but she is huge now. Wears lots of black to try to camouflage her weight.

R107

No, that's Quentin Dean, best remembered for playing the sexpot Dolores Purdy in the 1967 film IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT.

Elaine Stewart was the sultry "actress" that Kirk Douglas has at his house when Lana comes calling in The Bad and the Beautiful. "Saw your picture, Georgia. Thought you were swell." I think that was her biggest moment in movies and it lasted all of ten seconds.

Elaine Stewart was also in Brigadoon

Taina Elg

Jeanne Carmen

Liz Renay

Barbara Nichols

Cleo Moore

Barbara Lang

Liz Renay's "My Face for the World to See."

As good as it gets

Liz Renay in later life. Classy, elegant. Words that were foreign to her.

In R4's link, Pamela Tiffin looks like a young Zsa Zsa Gabor!

Don't forget Sharon Tate's best friend Joanna Pettet.

Gayle Hunnicutt was also married to English actor David Hemmings.

R122

Sharon's best friend was Sheilah Wells. Pettet and Sharon were good friends but Sharon considered Sheilah her best friend.

Barbara McNair

Christine Kaufmann married Tony Curtis and had two daughters after he divorced Janet Leigh, with whom he had two daughters.

R110 all true stuff. And she's been huge for a long time, like over 30 years. And her hair has long been dyed white and she wears white makeup /powder all over her face. Smokes about 4 packs of cigs a day. Total kook and her house was kind of a crazy house.

I always confused Barbara Nichols with Joyce Jameson. I think everybody did.

Sheree North—came on the scene as sort of a Walmart Great Value version of Marilyn in the '50s but evolved into a sexy, Angie Dickinson–esque character actress in her 40s.

Miss Sheree North in the '70s, by which time she had cornered the market on Special Guest Star roles on TV

Romy Schneider

Sharon Hugueny

A smattering of Starlets....

Yvette Vickers - a 50s starlet who met a sad end

I had no idea r134. I LOVE Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.

Romy Schneider was one of Europe's biggest stars. She was much more than mere starlet.

R128

I can't see that at all. Both were something else but Jameson in particular was exceptionally talented. Robert Vaughan strung her along for years. Poor thing committed suicide.

Wende Wagner

Linda Harrison

Wow, OP! I am astounded my and hopelessly in love with you. Upon reading your thread title(before scrolling down far enough to see the pic) I prepared to type in one most fondly remembered. Imagine the pleasant surprise to see, right there, in the most honored spot———MISS PAMELA TIFFIN!!

Although I much prefer the brunette model.

Greta Thyssen. Miss Thyssen died this past January. She was 90 years old.

Mid 60's "Starlet" Perfection . . .

Jane Fonda in Dino deLaurentiis "Barbarella" -

Corinna Tsopei

Almost 150 posts and no Mamie Van Doren or Jayne Mansfield?

Starlet Envy

Rosemary Forsyth, who was in The War Lord with Charlton Heston and Shenandoah with Jimmy Stewart

1966 brought a bevy, an ABSOLUTE bevy!

From what I can glean, the Starlet life can turn rather tawdry......quickly.

Not only tawdry but deadly......it seems.

Susan Kohner

Oh yes, r150!

Arlene Galonka!

Arlene in color!

It's G-O-lonka.....

Daliah Lavi

R164

That's from PENELOPE (1966)

You can't be called a starlet if you're the star of the picture.

Barbara Parkins

Myrna Fahey

Thordis Brandt

Irene Tsu

Luciana Paluzzi

Jenny Maxwell

Dolores Hart who gave up Hollywood & became a novitiate.

Jo Morrow

Kathie Browne who later married Darren McGavin

Lisa Seagram

I loved Myrna Fahey in a one season TV series of Father of the Bride back in the early 60s. She indeed looked like the young LIz Taylor.

I liked her better as a brunette. Scroll down partway to see her with Robert Wagner.

What about Cynthia Pepper who was 1960s TV's 1920s flapper teen in MARGIE??

Elaine Taylor best remembered for playing Shirley 'Ears' Blair in the Bette Davis film THE ANNiVERSARY. Married actor Christopher Plummer & retired.

Catherine Schell

Barbara Bain who was a starlet in the mid 50 to mid 60s when she struck it big with the role of Cinnamon Carter on tv's Mission: IMPOSSIBLE in 1966.

Beverly Owen who was the first actress to play Marilyn on tv's THE MUNSTERS. She left after one season when she got married. Actress Pat Priest then took over the role.

Miss Barbara Bain thinks pink!

Suzanne Lloyd who later became mother to actress Tracy Bregman (Y & R).

The tragic Belinda Lee who was killed in an automobile accident in 1961.

Laura Devon

Starlet, PLAYBOY spread girl Joan Staley.

I think her two biggest roles were:

* BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S In the party scene she's the blonde whom George Peppard makes move by pressing his cold wet drink into her back and she goes, "Was that necessary ... ? "

* THE GHOST & MR. CHICKEN Joan played the role of Alma, Luther's (Don Knotts) love interest

Fiona Lewis

Francoise Dorleac, one year older sister of Catherine Deneurve. Dorleac burned to death in a 1967 car crash.

Sue Lyon

Jane Birkin

Edy Williams

Gila Golan

Tuesday Weld ..... you just know she was a wild fuck. I get hard just looking at her.

I loved those dark eyed brunettes: Barbara Parkins, Susan Kohner, and especially Sharon Hugueny. She was the first of the seven wives of Robert Evans; she only lasted a year, 1961-1962. She was always being pumped in movie mags as a "Star of Tomorrow" but it never happened for her.

Karyn Kupcinet who was murdered in 1963 at the age of 22.

Marisa Mell

Silvana Pampanini

It took a good ten years in Hollywood before Mariette Hartley was a name.

Joy Harmon

Tisha Sterling, daughter of Ann Sothern & Bob Sterling

Carol Wayne

Susan Oliver

Another Susan, Susan Hart

Lynda Day, later remembered for being Lynda Day George after she married actor Christopher George and she became the female lead on Mission: IMPOSSIBLE in 1972.

Deborah Walley

Jane WAtson

Mary Hughes

Myrna Ross

Sexy Meri Welles was only in a handful of films before leaving for marriage & motherhood but she had noted roles in CLEOPATRA and also THE PINK PANTHER. She died of a heart attack at the age of 36.

Allyson Ames shown here with Bill Shatner from INCUBUS (1966)

Jacqueline Beer

Unusual beauty Joanna Frank, probably best remembered from the 1964 OUTER LIMITS episode entitled 'ZZZZZZZZ' in which she is a queen bee who is transformed into human form.

British Maura McGivney was around in the 50s & 60s, likely best remembered for playing in the 1965 Doris Day film DO NOT DISTURB in which she was cast as (Day's) husband's (Rod Taylor) secretary who Doris thinks is on the make for Rod. She was.

Pretty Nina Shipman shown here on an episode of THE MUNSTERS.

Carol Cole was the adopted daughter of Nat King Cole. She had some minor roles in a few things in the 60s and then had a recurring role on the tv series GRADY in the mid-70s.

Family friend Dean Martin gave her a small part in his Matt Helm film THE SILENCER in which Carol was cast as sexy cocktail waitress ala PLAYBOY bunny whom Stella Stevens accidentally gooses in a night club. She and Stella became good friends and Stella got her the part of Chris in 1969' THE MAD ROOM. Carol died from lung cancer at only 64.

Joan Huntington often played self absorbed shrews but she did it well.

Beverly Powers changed her name to Miss Beverly Hills. She was featured in a handful of Elvis movies, was a semi regular cast member on THE RED SKELTON SHOW in the mid 1960s and the most memorable film in which she appeared was BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S in which she played the stripper that Hepburn & Peppard are watching perform at a bar.

Today, Beverly is a minister who performs weddings in Hawaii.

Lynn Loring at parts in quite a few films and tv shows starting as a child. A 1964 nose job gave her a glamorous new look & a few years later she married humpy Roy Thinnes. She later became the (1st female) head of MGM/UA television division.

Suzan Ball

Mala Powers

Honor Blackman

Phyllis Diller

R156, how can you make a comment on r164, when that statement hasn't appeared yet???!!!

R215

Gee, I guess when you mis-type a digit.

R216, what Response were you referring to instead of r164?

R217

that of 154

Thank you.

Pamela Austin

Charlene Holt

Elizabeth Allen

Mara Corday who ended up becoming the 2nd wife of Richard Long.

Joanna Moore shown here from one of her times as Andy' love interest on THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW. Ryan O'Neal who was 6 years her junior married her after he'd gotten her pregnant. They had two children, Tantrum and Griffith and divorced after only 3 years of marriage.

Mari Blanchard who was partially paralyzed as a child and worked her rear off to get better never really rised above 'B' status in film. She developed cancer in late 30s and died at age 47 in 1970.

Karen Steele

Mimsy Farmer

Barbara Steele

Lesley Ann Warren

Chris Noel

Joan Staley

Elaine Devry

R231

Staley was already posted

Can't have too much Joan Staley!

Wende Wagner

It is amazing how many of them died of cancer.

Apparently, Wende Wagner has fans. (R108, R138, R235)

Wende was good friends with Sharon Tate and was with her in London in 1965 when Sharon first met Roman Polanski.

Hi, I'm Jane! You just wait. I'm gonna end up with two Academy Awards! Oh......and some other stuff too.

I'm watching Lucy right now. It's the Paul Douglas episode and Miss Joi Lansing did a "bit".

Yvonne Lime

Donna Anderson

R239, Joi Lansing was also in an earlier ILL episode, alongside Susan Hayward nemesis Jil Jarmyn.

These gals were celebrated even in paper doll form!

Patsy Ann (later, Trisha) Noble.

has joey heatherton and jayne kennedy been mentioned yet? or anitra ford?

most of the starlets of the 50's and 60's were marilyn wannabes or groomed to take her place after her passing, which of course none of them did...

can't think of any major female star who had so so many lookalikes or copycats as marilyn in the history of hollywood.. i mean besides van doren and mansfield, you had joi lansing, sheree north, beverly michaels, diana dors, cleo moore, anita ekberg and others

we should have a thread just for gorgous hairpieces and falls of the 60s

Trisha Noble just got a little bump from the latest Heineken commercial.

Miss Katherine Burns

Did they speed Trisha's voice up on the recordings above?

A Trifecta: Lori Nelson, Merry Anders and Barbara Eden, in the short-lived TV series of "How to Marry a Millionaire."

Paula Prentiss still has great bone structure

R10: Robert Conrad was sooo hot in that movie!

I was going to ask why these women were so gorgeous until I saw the photo of Karyn Kupcinet who was at a bar mitzvah I attended as a kid. She was very thin, over made-up and meh. These are well-lit and retouched B and W photos and the makeup men wh omade them up were geniuses as opposed to the current youtubers. Big illusion.

Sondra Locke

I'm Candace. I made my screen debut playing a lesbo!

Lois Nettleton...who went on to have a long career in TV and stage

R2 she was a good friend of Sharon Tate

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[Quote] I was going to ask why these women were so gorgeous until I saw the photo of Karyn Kupcinet who was at a bar mitzvah I attended as a kid. She was very thin, over made-up and meh. These are well-lit and retouched B and W photos and the makeup men wh omade them up were geniuses as opposed to the current youtubers. Big illusion.

If it's any consolation, Kupcinet did not photograph spectacularly.

She actually looks like Judy Garland here. She clearly went like Elsie.

Lois Nettleton was never in the chorus! I mean, Lois Nettleton was never a starlet!

R47 and r142, When one plays the title character of an iconic movie, one is a star, not a starlet. Mere youth does not equate to "starlet."

Then Carroll Baker was not a starlet?

How did they all get that beautiful big hair? It doesn’t look nasty like 80s hair.

Eva Six.

Dear R164, we don't become a novitiate, we enter the novitiate as novices.

[Quote] How did they all get that beautiful big hair? It doesn’t look nasty like 80s hair.

Wigs/wiglets.

Miss Tiffen looks like a great pyrenees dog with all that hair.

Who can forget the fabulous Lola Heatherton!

Candice Bergen had gorgeous hair, that was all her own hair. It was not a wig/wiglet or fall.