Yvette Mimieux is a rarity, an actress who was actually born in Los Angeles. That fact gave her the advantage of starting in show business early. She debuted on television in 1958 at age sixteen, and came to wide notice playing Weena in the 1960 cinematic adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. Later the same year she appeared in Where the Boys Are, a film that’s iconic not only because it was among the first teenage Spring Break movies, but because it provided perhaps the most famous title in the history of lesbian porn—Where the Boys Aren’t, a series that currently stands at nineteen iterations. Mimieux’s film career after 1963 was marked by many commercial disappointments, and she eventually focused once more on television, where she worked until 1992. This luminous shot dates from 1965.
