{"id":3363,"date":"2014-03-29T15:18:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T15:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2014-03-29T15:18:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T15:18:14","slug":"new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/29\/new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW BOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PTBlog.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3364\" alt=\"PTBlog\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PTBlog-249x300.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Just signed and returned\u00a0 contract with McFarland and Company for my new book <strong>Pamela Tiffin: The Actress, the Icon, the Films<\/strong>\u00a0continueing with my series of books on Sixties Starlets.<\/p>\n<p>Pamela Tiffin began her film career in 1961 as a scene-stealing comedienne in the classic Billy Wilder comedy <i>One, Two, Three <\/i>before she became the teen queen of teenage camp with <i>State Fair, Come Fly with Me, For Those Who Think Young, and <\/i><i>The Pleasure Seekers <\/i>where TCM dubbed her \u201cHollywood&#8217;s favorite air-headed ing\u00e9nue in the Sixties.\u201d After landing a sexy adult role in <i>Harper<\/i>, she ran away to Italy to star in sex comedies including <i>Kiss the Other Sheik<\/i> and <i>The Blonde in the Blue Movie<\/i>; a giallo <i>The Fifth Cord<\/i>, and the western <i>Deaf Smith &amp; Johnny Ears<\/i>. Her leading men ranged from James Darren and Bobby Darin, to James Cagney, Burt Lancaster, and Paul Newman, to Marcello Mastroianni, Franco Nero, and Vittorio Gassman. Tiffin\u2019s beauty and comedic talent so evident in her Hollywood movies, coupled with her running off to Italy at the height of her fame, have made her a cult pop icon with fans of Sixties cinema to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Not a biography, this book<i> <\/i>is a filmography though the first section &#8220;Pamela Tiffin: From Hollywood to Rome&#8221; traces Pamela Tiffin\u2019s acting career in a chronological order including her time on the stage. The second section focuses on her movies and her U.S. TV shows. Each is divided into three sections\u2014Backstory; Synopsis; and Reviews and Box Office. The last section is a list of appearances she made on film, radio, or television as herself. Excerpts from a variety of sources are incorporated including new interviews with film historians (Roberto Curti, Howard Hughes, Dean Brierly), and actors and crew members (including Hugh O&#8217;Brian, Larry Hankin, asst. director Tim Zinnemann) who worked with the actress. There are many publicity photos, on-set stills, and film posters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just signed and returned\u00a0 contract with McFarland and Company for my new book Pamela Tiffin: The Actress, the Icon, the Films\u00a0continueing with my series of books on Sixties Starlets. Pamela Tiffin began her film career in 1961 as a scene-stealing comedienne in the classic Billy Wilder comedy One, Two, Three before she became the teen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}