{"id":3649,"date":"2015-09-23T03:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T03:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2015-09-23T03:00:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T03:00:23","slug":"my-pamela-tiffin-book-is-now-publishe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/23\/my-pamela-tiffin-book-is-now-publishe\/","title":{"rendered":"MY PAMELA TIFFIN BOOK IS NOW PUBLISHED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Cover-Tiffin.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3651\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Cover-Tiffin.jpg\" alt=\"Cover Tiffin\" width=\"350\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just got word from my publisher McFarland and Company that my new book <strong>Pamela Tiffin: Hollywood to Rome, 1961-1974<\/strong> has shipped. What a strange journey it has taken. I started off doing a book about American actresses who went to Italy to work during the sixties. I first wrote about Mimsy Farmer and then tackled Pamela. I just kept writing and writing and realized I had enough for a book just on her. My plans to turn into a biography with hopefully a new interview with Pamela\u00a0was sadly squashed when I was informed by her husband that she could not participate. I was going to abandon the project, but knowing I was a big fan he suggested I continue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pamela Tiffin: Hollywood to Rome, 1961-1974<\/strong> pays tribute to the stunning beauty that is Pamela Tiffin. Prettier than Raquel Welch. Funnier than Jane Fonda. More appealing than Ann-Margret. Yet they became superstars, but Pamela did not despite adulation from the critics and even James Cagney who hailed her \u201cremarkable flair for comedy.\u201d Contractual obligations and self-imposed exiles in New York and then Rome hampered her, though she remains a cult sixties pop icon to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Dark-haired Pamela Tiffin debuted in the movie version of Tennessee Williams&#8217; <em>Summer and Smoke<\/em> (1961) as the stunning innocent who steals handsome doctor Laurence Harvey from sexually frustrated spinster Geraldine Page and then she was a scene-stealing comedienne giving a Golden Globe nominated performance as\u00a0an addle-brained Southern teenager who sneaks into East Berlin and marries Communist Horst Buchholz in Billy Wilder\u2019s hilarious political satire\u00a0<em>One, Two, Three <\/em>(1961)\u00a0starring<em>\u00a0<\/em>James<em>\u00a0<\/em>Cagney.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"One, Two, Three - trailer\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MCAMJoj9uM8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Next came a succession of popular teenage drive-in movies where Pamela once again\u00a0delivers highly amusing performances. She&#8217;s a bored farm gal itching for more than hanging out with the hogs in the\u00a0musical\u00a0<em>State Fair<\/em>\u00a0(1962) with Pat Boone and Bobby Darin; a bungling\u00a0flight attendant in the romantic travelogue\u00a0<em>Come Fly with Me\u00a0<\/em>(1963) with Hugh O&#8217;Brian and Dolores Hart; a surfing college student in the beach movie <em>For Those Who Think Young<\/em> (1964) with James Darren; a race car driver loving coed in\u00a0<em>The Lively Set<\/em> (1964) again with Darren; and a naive tourist in the Madrid-set comedy <em>The Pleasure Seekers <\/em>(1964), a remake of <em>Three Coins in the Fountain<\/em>,\u00a0with Ann-Margret and Carol Lynley. With her beauty and seductive soft-voice, Pamela Tiffin instilled in her romance seeking characters not only a wide-eyed na\u00efvet\u00e9 and endearing flightiness, but a sexiness that her contemporaries at the time could not match. It was these qualities that made these movies better than expected due to the actress\u2019 comedic abilities and made her rise above the competition of the time. So successful was she that\u00a0Turner Classic Movies has dubbed her \u201cHollywood&#8217;s favorite air-headed ing\u00e9nue in the sixties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"FOR THOSE WHO THINK YOUNG 1964 Movie Trailer\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Ef71xM9EP4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"THE PLEASURE SEEKERS\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fkadt-dNJCc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sophisticated and intelligent in real life (she lived in New York to continue working as a model and taking college courses between films), Pamela was not a fan of her\u00a0teenage movies and strove to get more mature roles. However, she was beholden to the contracts she signed with producer Hal Wallis (who discovered her), 20th Century-Fox; and the Mirisch Brothers. To her delight, Pamela was finally able to shed her ingenue image after landing a sexy adult role as a sharp-tongued,\u00a0man-hungry heiress in the detective film\u00a0<em>Harper\u00a0<\/em>starring Paul Newman. Her sexy bikini-clad dance on top of a diving board has become one of the sixties iconic film moments.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Pamela Tiffin in HARPER\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8eSQBVN1YOs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Instead of taking Hollywood by storm at this point with her new sex kitten persona, she went blonde and headed overseas\u00a0to become Marcello Mastroianni&#8217;s first American leading lady in the Italian three-part comedy <em>Oggi, domani, dopodomani<\/em> (1966) and then opted for a Broadway play, <em>Dinner at Eight<\/em> in the role essayed by Jean Harlow in the 1930s movie version. An unhappy marriage caused her to run\u00a0away to Italy in 1967 putting a halt to her career trajectory in the U.S. leaving her many fans wanting more and wondering where she disappeared to.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Oggi, domani e dopodomani - Trailer originale\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/032TOSrw4QA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nHollywood&#8217;s loss though was Italy&#8217;s gain. She was paired with some of the country&#8217;s most famous leading men including Franco Nero (twice), Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Nino Manfredi, and Lando Buzzanca. Though enjoying being a sexy blonde, Pamela wanted to act and went after more character parts during her time there hence her long blonde locks were hidden under dark or red wigs. Quite popular, especially when her notorious pictorial in <em>Playboy<\/em> was released, her films ranged from comedies such as <em>Straziami ma di baci Saziami\/<\/em><em>Kill Me with Kisses<\/em> (1968, one of Italy&#8217;s highest grossing movies of the sixties), <em>L&#8217;arcangelo\/<\/em><em>The Archangel<\/em> (1969), and\u00a0<em>Il vichingo venuto dal Sud\/<\/em><em>The Blonde in the Blue Movie <\/em>(1971);\u00a0to the underrated giallo <em>Giornata nera per l&#8217;Ariete\/<\/em><em>The Fifth Cord <\/em>(1971); to<em>\u00a0<\/em>the spaghetti western <em>Los Amigos\/<\/em><em>Deaf Smith &amp; Johnny Ears (1973) <\/em>featuring one of her best performances as a whore. In between, Pamela returned to the U.S. for one memorable role as a political activist taken hostage by Mexican General Peter Ustinov and his army when they retake the Alamo in the very funny satire <em>Viva Max<\/em> (1969).<\/p>\n<p>Not a biography, <strong>Pamela Tiffin: Hollywood to Rome, 1961-1974<\/strong> is a career retrospective of Pamela Tiffin\u2019s movies plus TV and stage appearances. Interviewees (including Franco Nero, Hugh O\u2019Brian, Lada Edmund, Jr., Carole Wells, Tim Zinnemann, Martin West, Niki Flacks, Jed Curtis, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Eldon Quick, John Wilder, and Larry Hankin) provide a behind-the-scenes look at her work. Plus noted film historians Dean Brierly, Roberto Curti, Howard Hughes, and Paolo Mereghetti weigh in on Pamela Tiffin\u2019s place in cinematic history.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Pamela Tiffin 1968 Scenes d&#039;Amour Tendres\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hpk3TCcYxtA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Fifth Cord Trailer 1971\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RYn8XC4ni5A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/GS14ml1KpyM<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Just got word from my publisher McFarland and Company that my new book Pamela Tiffin: Hollywood to Rome, 1961-1974 has shipped. What a strange journey it has taken. I started off doing a book about American actresses who went to Italy to work during the sixties. I first wrote about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3649","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\/3649","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}