Darlings, is it actually possible to die twice???? It is, when you die one year, but are not discovered, until the next!!!! Which is exactly what happened in the case of former Fifties Screen Siren, Yvette Vickers!!!!!
Those of us in the know, girls, just LOVED Yvette, who was basically Hollywood's Greatest Slut!!!! After her signature role as townie tramp Honey Parker, in the 1958 classic "Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman," (starring the former Femme Fatale Of Fifties Fright Films, Allison Hayes, in the title role!!!!!!), it was, like, if you needed an actress to play a slut, call Yvette!!!!!
Did you know she made her screen debut as a teen in the A-list classic "Sunset Boulevard"???? Watch the party scene closely; at one point, William Holden sits down, and, next to him, a young woman is talking on the phone!!! It is Yvette, girls!!!!!
But Honey Parker was her all-time great screen moment. When gigantic Nancy Archer (Allison Hayes) storms through the town, en route to the local watering hole, searching for hubby Harry (William Hudson), and bellows, "I know where my husband is...he's with THAT BLONDE!!!!!!!", Yvette tops even this, because the camera switches then to she and Harry smooching underneath the table. When the ceiling begins to cave in, Yvette turns to him and sultrily purrs, "Haaaaaary, whaaaaaaat's going on?", before everything comes crashing down on them both!!!!! From that point on, Yvette was a cult star!!!!!!
She even posed for Playboy (around 1959) in a manner I might have well envied. She even appeared in another A-List film, Martin Ritt's "Hud," starring Paul Newman, and, in her Oscar-winning performance, Patricia Neal, as world weary housekeeper, Alma.
But sluts get old, and when those roles dried up, Yvette was doing bits as aging Moms in films like 1971's "What's The Matter With Helen????" Eventually she disappeared from sight, becoming a recluse, the Little Edie or Miss Havisham of her nabe.
Till earlier this year, when someone (a neighbor) went in to her house, and found a decomposed heap on the floor. Medical examination proved it was Yvette, who had died the year before!!!!! From Honey Johnson...to this!!!!! How sad!!!!!!
Even more, how shocking!!! But, for a time, Yvette was back in the limelight!!!! She will always be remembered for her film campiness, but for sheer shock value, this beat any story this year!!!!!!
RIP. Yvette!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The character Yvette played in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman was named Honey Parker, not Honey Johnson.
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