• About Kathy Shaidle
  • Kathy Shaidle: Privacy policy

5 Feet of Fury

Kathy Shaidle's blog. Est. 2000

Yvette Vickers’ mummified body discovered: B-movie actress posed for one of Playboy’s most iconic shots

May 3, 2011 By Kathy Shaidle

 

This 1959 shot of Yvette Vickers was shot by Russ Meyer, who temporarily put his breast fetish on hold and created one of his most famous images.

Today she was found dead:

Yvette Vickers, an early Playboy playmate whose credits as a B-movie actress included such cult films as “Attack of the 50-Foot Woman” and “Attack of the Giant Leeches,” was found dead last week at her Benedict Canyon home. Her body appears to have gone undiscovered for months, police said.

Yvette Vickers’ bio here.

More from my site

  • New: learn WordPress blogging, with one on one expert trainingNew: learn WordPress blogging, with one on one expert training
  • Sign up for the GLORIA Center’s new blogSign up for the GLORIA Center’s new blog
  • Sailer: “…the first Blade Runner was perhaps more interesting to argue about than to see”Sailer: “…the first Blade Runner was perhaps more interesting to argue about than to see”
  • ‘He takes absolute possession of his own personal negatives…’‘He takes absolute possession of his own personal negatives…’

Filed Under: conservative blog

« Has the lyric ‘Meet the new boss, same as the old boss’ ever been more apt?
‘Fire One Regulatory Bureaucrat, Create 98 Private Sector Jobs’ »

Archives

Copyright © 2026 · Magazine Pro Theme On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in