Virna Lisi

Virna Lisi (1936 – 2017) in Hollywood for How to Murder Your Wife (1965) with Jack Lemmon and Not with My Wife, You Don’t! (1966) with Tony Curtis.

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Virna Lisi

Virna Lisi (1936 – 2014): Born in Ancona as Virna Pieralisi, she began her film career as a teenager in 1953, initially thanks to her stunning looks. Variety.

Stella Stevens

Stella Stevens, model and actress, born Estelle Caro Eggleston, 1 October 1936, Yazoo City, Mississippi. In Hollywood from Li’l Abner (1959) to Popstar (2005).

Juliet Prowse (1936 – 1996)

Juliet Prowse (1936–1996): Hollywood dancer, actress and cabaret artiste; engaged to Can-Can (1960) co-star Frank Sinatra, starred opposite Elvis Presley in G.I. Blues (1961), 26 episodes in the title role of Mona McCluskey (TV 1965-66).

Juliet Prowse (1936 – 1996)

Juliet Prowse (1936 – 1996): born  in India, raised in South Africa, trained in England as a dancer, moved to Hollwyood in the late 1950s, on screen 1960 – 1987.

Sheree Winton (1935 – 1976)

Sheree Winton: English actress born Shirley June Patrick 4 November 1936, Sheffield UK; died 29 May 1976, age 40, Hatch End UK; suicide by drug overdose.

Sheree Winton was a minor British starlet of the late 1950s and 1960s whose death went unnoticed by the British press in 1976. Her story reached the public when her son Dale, who had discovered his mother’s body, became a leading British TV personality in the 1990s.

Dale Winton committed suicide 18 April 2018 at age 62.

Virginia Maskell (1936 – 1968)

Virginia Maskell: English actress born 27 February 1936, Shepherd’s Bush London UK; died 25 January 1968, age 31, Stoke Mandeville Hospital Aylesbury UK; overdose of barbiturates.

Maskell acted in British TV and films 1957 – 1964. She semi-retired to have children, returning to work for the drama Interlude (1968).

She was hospitalised for a nervous breakdown in July 1967 following the filming of Interlude. In January 1968, she took an overdose of sleeping pills,  fled into a nearby forest where she was found ten hours later, suffering hypothermia, and died in hospital tyhe following day.

Chelsea Brown, Goldie Hawn, Judy Carne, Jo Anne Worley, Ruth Buzzi

Chelsea Brown (1942 – 2017), Goldie Hawn (born 1945), Judy Carne (1939 – 2015) and Jo Anne Worley (born 1937); seated: Ruth Buzzi (born 1936) ~ cast members of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (TV 1967 – 1973).

Millie Perkins

Millie Perkins: American model turned actress, born 1936 (IMDB) or 1938 (Filmtalk), debut and career high in the title role of The Diary of Anne Frank (1959); on screen until 2006.

Millie Perkins

“Millie Perkins, a new and untried girl, is pretty, charming and wistful in a thin young-girlish way” ~ Bosley Crowther, The New York Times.